I wanted to write a simple article to show children to get them interested in chemistry. There is no gigantic cosmic idea here, just Wikipedia pictures and the common theme of pretty chemicals. This ...

You could discuss how white light can be split into its spectrum and students could make their own CD spectrometer. The students could investigate the flame colours produced by different elements.

IN a communication from my zealous science-master, which I find in your issue of Thursday the 11th, it is stated that pure hydrogen has no tinge of blue in its flame (that colour being due to the ...