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With mouth wide open, vibrating air coming up the throat from the vocal chords leaving the open mouth and spreading in all directions. 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 and now am creating this science website.   My scream was not staged. The picture was to be of two adult cats, which I was holding. A microsecond before the camera snapped, the two cats dug their claws into my skin as they prepared to leap out of my arms. A picture like this is great for making inferences. Kids could make "guesses" as to why I am screaming. They would be drawing on facts from the photo, such as I look like I am in pain or maybe I am just pretending.

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What is a Supersaturated Solution?

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Each solution is a mixture of sugar (sucrose) and water. Sugar is the solute and water the solvent. Solution A has twice as much sugar added to the same amount of water as does solution B. Thus, Solution A is more concentrated than is Solution B. You can also say that of the two solutions, A and B, Solution B is more dilute.

What is a Solution? How do You Saturated A Solution? A solution is  a homogeneous mixture, meaning it is the same throughout. A solution can be made of more than two substance, with one of the substances being the solvent and the substances that dissolve in the solvent are called solutes. You make and use […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: concentration, dilute, precipitate, rock candy, saturated, solute, solution, solvent, supersaturated

Variables For Making Rock Candy

By Janice VanCleave

A Science Fair Project is a cause/effect investigation. The cause is called an independent variable (something you purposely change). Changes in the independent variable affects another variable called the dependent variable. You AFFECT the investigation by making changes in the independent variable. The objective of the investigation is to measure the EFFECT that this change […]

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