Lunar eclipse tomorrow!

Check out the following article that gives details about the upcoming eclipse, when amass how to best view it!

Lunar Eclipse Will Supersize Blood-Red Moon Saturday | Dec. 10 Total Lunar Eclipse | Eclipse Viewing & Skywatching | Space.com

For the chemists!

Since you just did a major research paper on it, I thought I would share the following photos of Europa! Enjoy :) (Click on the link or the photo to see all of the pictures, there are some real beauties out there!!)





Picture from NASA

  

ipadio: Melissa's phlog - 7th phonecast

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Student Day Phases

We had a fantastic time at our COVA student day yesterday!  We had the opportunity to discuss and show our amazing students all about Phase Changes (in 45 minutes or less).  Of course, we had ONE experiment (there has to be ONE in every crowd, right) that didn't work.  We were attempting to supercool water and managed to freeze it quickly, but no supercool joy.  So, my challenge to you, dear students and readers, is to supercool some water at YOUR house, make a video of the event, then send me the link!

Let the showing up your Chemistry teacher begin!! :)

Here is some inspiration (thanks emfriske)!

Rare Earths!!

Did you ever wonder about those little discussed elements on the Periodic Table that are just hanging out on their own underneath the rest of their elemental brothers and sisters?  Well, here is an article for you!

Rare Earth Metals-National Geographic June 2011

We don't talk about them much, but in the article you will learn exactly how rare they are, some common uses of these metals, physical and chemical properties that make them useful, where they are found/mined and some of the social and political issues behind these elements!

Enjoy and feel free to comment with your thoughts or questions!