Overview of all the guides in the wiki book of science show.

Caution

These are only guides and can contain both errors and omissions.

Always make experiments in small versions before proceeding to larger quantities where things could become dangerous.

Ask around if you have any doubts before starting. Do not attempt to perform an experiment you do not feel you understand and is qualified to perform -some of the experiments described here contain dangerous materials and the dangers can be subtle.

Prepare yourself before starting and exercise due care! It is not fun science if it is dangerous and chaotically performed.

Guides

The table below lists all the guides alfabetically, together with:

The status of the guide (fairly complete , Some omissions , Safety info ok , Still sketchy )
How harmless or dangerous it is
The level of equipment and practice thats required (household, specialized lab...)
An overview of the subjects the experiment relates to.

Science Show Guides and Recipes
Guide	Safety	Level	Subjects	Comments
Absorption, Transmission and Reflection of Light and Heat	Harmless	School	Nanotechnology, Physics, Optics, Materials Science	How light and heat can pass through some materials and not others
Amorphous Metals	Harmless	School	Physics, Nanotechnology	Bouncing Balls
Anti-static Gun	Harmless	Household	Physics, Nanotechnology	Fun to do at home
Capillary Pressure	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Physics
Colloidal Sunset	Be careful	School	Nanotechnology, Physics, Optics	Also called Tyndalls's experiment demonstrating Rayleigh scattering
Compact Disc Spectrometer	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Optics	The rainbow in the CD
Diffraction Grating Spectrometer	Harmless	School	Nanotechnology, Physics, Optics	Analyzing the colors
Ferrofluid	Harmless	School	Physics, Nanotechnology	Requires Ferrofluid
Ferrofluid Synthesis	Harmless	School	Physics, Nanotechnology	Requires Ferrofluid
Field Ionization	Be careful	School	Physics, Nanotechnology	Requires Van der Graaf Generator
Fluorescent Dyes	Harmless	Household & Laboratory	Nanotechnology, Optics, Chemistry	Liquids such as quinine give different colors under UV light
Freezing with Liquid Nitrogen	Be careful	Laboratory	Nanotechnology, Optics, Physics	Flowers, water...
Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis	Be careful	Laboratory	Nanotechnology, Optics, Chemistry	Make Red gold (expensive chemicals)
Ion Spray	Harmless	Household	Physics, Nanotechnology	Fun to do at home
Invisible Glass	Harmless	Household	Optics	Fun to do at home
Light Emitting Diodes	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Microtechnology, Materials Science	Different materials give different color LEDs
Liquid Nitrogen	Be careful	Laboratory	Physics	How to handle liquid nitrogen - read this one first!
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream	Be careful	Laboratory	Physics	Requires Liquid Nitrogen
Liquid Nitrogen Marshmallows	Be careful	Laboratory	Physics	Requires Liquid Nitrogen
Making Clouds with Liquid Nitrogen	Be careful	Laboratory	Nanotechnology, Physics	Requires Liquid Nitrogen
Magnetic Induction in a Tube	Harmless	Household	Physics
Magnetic Induction in Copper Plates	Harmless	Household	Physics
Milk and Nanoparticles	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Optics	Show how milk can have many colors
Non-Newtonian fluid	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Physics	Corn starch in water
Nile Blue Fluorescence	Harmless	Laboratory	Nanotechnology, Optics, Chemistry	Beautiful and easy: a blue liquid gives red light when you shine a green laser beam into it.
Oil on Water	Harmless	Household	Physics Nanotechnology Optics	Fun to do at home
Plasma Ball	Harmless	Household	Physics, Chemistry	Fun to do at home
Pyrolithic Graphite	Harmless	School	Physics
Quantized Conductivity	Harmless	School	Nanotechnology, Physics
Silver Mirror Coating	Be careful	School	Nanotechnology, Optics, Chemistry	Tollens Reagent
Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis	Be careful	School	Nanotechnology, Optics, Chemistry	Make yellow silver
Soap Bubbles	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Optics, Physics
Soap Films	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Optics, Physics
Superabsorbing Polymers	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry
Superconductors	Be careful	Laboratory	Physics, Materials Science
Superhydrofobic Coatings	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Physics
Supersaturated Sodium Acetate	Harmless	Household	Nanotechnology, Physics, Chemistry
Transparent Wool	Fairly harmless	School	Nanotechnology, Optics	Requires Benzyl alcohol
Van de Graaff Generator	Be careful	School	Nanotechnology, Physics	High Voltage

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