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Interesting Science News and Links
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The Pres. Candidates' stance on science Answers from the candidates to a science survey.
The Nobel Prize was awarded in Chemistry Check out who won it!
Glass as a liquid? The debate rages on over the physical properties of glass. (New York Times requires a free registrations)
Sodium Explosion Videos Here is a link to a site where some videos of a "sodium party" may be found.
Out of Gallium soon? Will we run out of Gallium soon? Gallium is involved in the making of flat screen tvs. Better read this story to find out!
Fastest growing jobs? Not really a science link but interesting nonetheless for those of you still struggling to choose a major. This is a very difficult task indeed!
 
     
 
General Science Links
The American Chemical Society Hyper Physics RealClimate.org The Panda's Thumb Scientific American
Science Journal of Chemical Education National Center for
Science Education		 The New England Skeptical Society Brookhaven Protein Database
RasMol PyMol American Solar Energy Society Talkorigins.org  
         
 
     
 
Organic Chemistry Links
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NMR Structure Database Fantastic resource for retrieving NMR, IR and other useful structural information. Website is located in Japan.
Sigma-Aldrich Chemical supply company but the webstite provides database searching for chemicals and properties. Many of the structures have NMR and IR data available for download as well.
NMR Solvents Useful and brief webpage detailing common NMR solvents.
Isis Draw Chemical structure drawing program that used to be free to academics (not sure if this is still true since I use ChemDraw Ultra, which is definitely not free).
   
 
     
 
Science Videos
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We do most of these demonstrations at the 8th grader day at Shasta College:
The famous Mentos and Diet Coke Bellagio fountain:

Here's a neat series of chemistry demonstrations:

(Click this link to see all 6 of the demos)
The mythbusters play with sodium and potassium metal: