Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
Stone Soup is a wonderful story to encourage kids to share with each other. The video is one version of the story “Stone Soup.” Another tells of a solder who set up a cooking pot outdoors. He added water and a stone to the pot and started a fire beneath the pot. Periodically he would [...]
Question: How can I make perfume? Answer: We often use the word perfume in a generic way, meaning any liquid applied to the body to give it a pleasant fragrance. But perfume (parfume) –what I call “Real” perfume is more concentrated and is generally more expensive than a cologne with the same fragrance. Another way [...]
Question: Why do perfumes smell different? Answer: Perfume is a generic term used for liquids with a distinctive pleasant smell. A more scientific definition is that perfume is a liquid solution, which is a mixture of a liquid solvent and different solutes. The liquid solvent for perfumes is generally ethanol (alcohol) or a mixture of [...]
ABOUT ME: Hi, I am Janice VanCleave, author of 50 best-selling science experiment books for children ages 4 through high school. I taught science for 27 years.
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