Chemistry

Below you can find a current list of my chemistry articles published on this website in English.
- A Liquid That Changes Color with Temperature
- Ab Ovo – Fluorescence of a Porphyrin Solution Isolated from an Eggshell
- Blue Bottle
- Brilliant Solution in a Maze: The Marangoni Effect and Surface Tension
- Chemical Garden
- Chemical Traffic Light
- Chemiluminescence of Luminol in Organic Solvents
- Chemiluminescence of Metallic Sodium
- Colorful Contrasts: The Briggs–Rauscher Oscillating Reaction
- Electricity Out of Thin Air: The Aluminium-Oxygen Battery
- Electrolysis in Two Colors
- Endothermic Process
- Enzymes: Catalysts of Life
- Fire Wave
- Fireworks Ignited by Ice
- Fluorescence of Chlorophyll
- Glow in the Flask
- Glowing Candy - Phosphorescent Organic Materials
- Glowing peanut butter
- Glowing Purple - Chemiluminescence of a Common Manganese Compound
- Glowing Stone - Thermoluminescence of Fluorite
- Helping Hand from Chemistry, with a Glove: Luminol Synthesis from Waste
- Highly Combustible Foam
- Hungry Liquid
- Kitchen Chemistry: Glow-in-the-Dark Reactions for Everyone
- Light and Color: The Photochromic Properties of Thionine
- Light from the Chemist’s Retort
- Liquid Metal: The Fascinating Properties of Wood’s Metal
- Lophine – The Great Synthesis
- Lots of Foam – The Catalytic Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide
- Metallic Plants – The Beauty of Crystalline Silver Dendrites
- Non-Flammable Fireworks from the Land of the Rising Sun
- Phosphorus, the Light of Alchemy
- Preparation of Iron Oxalate
- Purple Smoke
- Pyrophoric Iron
- Red and Blue: Dual-Color Chemiluminescence
- Sensitive Liquids: Reversible Dye-Based Redox Reactions
- Silver Fractals
- Silver Tree in a Test Tube: The Growth of Metal Crystals in Silica Gel
- Spontaneous combustion
- Stopping the Invisible
- Strange Glow: Toxic Chlorine and the Chemiluminescence of Excited Nitrogen
- The Chemist on the Case – Chemiluminescence Activated by Blood
- The Chemistry of Iron and Thiocyanates
- Water and Fire
- What and How Can Be Obtained from Sand? The Unknown Face of Silicon
- What the Eye Can’t See – Tracking Blood with Chemiluminescence
- Zinc and Sulfur: A Reaction That Sparks
Marek Ples