Happy Halloween!
🕷️🍬🎃🧪🧬👻 From pumpkins and sweets to spiders and sparkling drinks, chemistry is lurking everywhere!
🍬 Sugar
We all love sugar, but what is it chemically and since when do we know sugar?
In the quiz, we take a closer look at the chemistry of the sugary world
The invention of the first artificial sweetener and a lifetime battle for credit
🎃 Pumpkins
We wish you a very Happy Halloween with this science-related quiz
Pumpkins contain healthy compounds, so why not bake a pumpkin pie?
Stability of cold-pressed pumpkin seed oil and roasted pumpkin seed oil compared
How much do you know about pumpkins?
iment for young kids and fun for all ages!
🕷️ Spiders
Tim Lüddecke on animal toxins in agriculture and medicine, new proteins, and the challenges of German academia
Allspice
Contrary to what its name suggests, allspice is not a mixture but a single unique ingredient—we know it, for example, from pumpkin pie
👻 Slime
Be prepared for Halloween with glowing slime and the chemistry behind it
Happy Halloween – Simple explanation of the chemistry behind slime
🥂 Alcohol
Looking a bit deeper into the glass we discover that there is a great deal of chemistry involved … only chemistry can be this tingling
The short video describes which processes take place in the body during alcohol breakdown and how long this takes
What happens to alcohol after it has been consumed?
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?
