18 results for “chemistry”
Chemistry
The Chemistry of Life
chemistry is called biochemistry, and it starts with one element: carbon. Why carbon? A carbon atom
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Life & Biology
The Origin of Life
chemistry of modern cells still resembles the chemistry that happens naturally in vent minerals. Another candidate
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Matter, Energy & Physics
The Periodic Table
chemistry classroom hangs a chart of boxes, each with a symbol and a number. It looks
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Life & Biology
What Is Life? The Cell
chemistry that eat, grow, copy themselves and die. You are a cooperative of about 37 trillion
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The Human Body
The Senses
chemistry into experience. There are more than five, and all of them are built in the brain
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Atoms
chemistry The electrons do the chemistry. They arrange themselves around the nucleus in shells, and atoms
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Life & Biology
Bacteria and Viruses
chemistry. Most are harmless; some keep you alive; a few can kill you. Take a pinch
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Chemistry
Acids and Bases
chemistry: the difference between acids and bases. What makes an acid An acid is a substance
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Chemistry
Chemical Reactions
Burning, rusting, cooking and digesting are all chemical reactions: atoms swapping partners to make new substances
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Chemistry
Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance
Water covers most of the planet and makes up most of your body, yet it breaks
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
chemistry that led to life. The Kuiper belt and beyond Past Neptune lies the Kuiper belt
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
chemistry. A laser makes it by persuading a crowd of atoms to emit identical photons in step
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
chemistry can happen, and Europa is considered one of the most promising places to look for life
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Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
running far faster. The green chemistry of the leaf is, quite simply, what makes the planet habitable.
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
chemistry is so rich that some scientists consider it a natural laboratory for how life's ingredients
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Animals
The Octopus
chemistry of everything it touches. Masters of disguise Octopus skin is packed with millions of tiny
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Matter, Energy & Physics
The Quantum World
chemistry, quantum mechanics explains why atoms bond at all, which is to say, why there is anything
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Planet Earth
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
chemistry or extreme conditions to form. Rocks: three ways to make them A rock is a mixture
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