Answers to Chemistry Questions

Using equal amounts of fruit squash and water, a drink is always stronger when the squash is poured in before the water...

What's the highest possible temperature that you can achieve?

If you have oil on the surface of a dirty pot and you add washing up liquid, why is it that all the oil shoots to the...

When people measure carbon dioxide, a lot of the time it is measured in weight. They'll say that your car releases...

Why do bubbles of gas form on the sides of the bath or glass while or after you have run the water?

With the ever increasing shortage of water in reservoirs, why can't we purify seawater to overcome the problem?

Why does ouzo turn milky white when water is added? It must be mainly water to start with and as the concentration of...

When you put wood on a fire, why does some wood spit and crackle while other wood burns slowly and quietly?

Why is it that cream crackers left out take a matter of a few hours to go soggy and stale, yet when put into a large...

I was fitting a multi-fuel burner in the living room and want to know where to fit the carbon monoxide detector. Should...

I have recently bought these cool hand warmers that are filled with a gel and a metal disc. When you bend the metal...

What's the difference between fuel sold in the winter and in the summer?

When petrol is spilt on the ground and mixed with water, how come it's so colourful?

Why is the sun so hot?

Some roofs have clean lines across them caused by copper cables that have been lain across them in the past. Why?

I am interested in finding asbestos in buildings. I was wondering whether Raman spectroscopy could be incorporated into...

Can you use spectroscopy to spot whether ID cards are real, or faked on a home printer?

Why do bubbles stick together in soapy water?

I bleached my hair recently, does bleach affect the scalp?

Why can you smell some gases, but not others?

What makes glue sticky?