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Interesting facts about chemistry

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What makes New Car Smell? Glue, mostly.

By Ryan | Published: January 16, 2010

This week I had the pleasure of riding on a brand new airplane. At least according to the gate agent who emphasized the benefit of “that new plane smell”. All I know is that it caused a wee bit of a headache, with no ice cream in sight. “New plane smell” is one in a [...]

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FACT: it’s harder to bake a cake in high altitude towns

By Ryan | Published: December 17, 2009

The majority of the world’s population lives at or near sea level. Thus, most of the world’s bakers live near sea level. Thus, most of the world’s cookbooks and recipes were written near sea level. Turns out, this actually matters. Since there is going to be a whole lotta baking going on in this next [...]

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FACT: trans fat is a result of making margarine from oil

By Ryan | Published: October 22, 2009

Everywhere you go you hear about deadly trans fat, awful trans fatty acid, and terrible hydrogenated oil. Okay, so I get the picture that these things aren’t good for you, but I have no clue what they are… until today! Let’s take a trip to the dark side of your diet and learn something new [...]

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FACT: autumn leaves only turn red as a last resort

By Ryan | Published: October 3, 2009

It’s now officially chilly around here, so my curiosity turned towards the leaves. Specifically, how and why they change to such lovely colours. Turns out, they don’t really change to yellow and orange so much as let their true colours come through. (That’s your cue, Cyndi!) The green in leaves is due to the presence [...]

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FACT: root beer foam is all for show

By Ryan | Published: August 29, 2009

You’ve probably noticed that root beer is much more foamy than other soda-pops, and the bubbles tend to last longer. This is no accident. It’s an elaborate rouse pulled over on the unsuspecting public by marketing executives! What is this world coming to? Back in the day the foaminess was a natural result of the [...]

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FACT: the colour of fireworks is all about chemistry

By Ryan | Published: August 21, 2009

There’s an international festival of fireworks going on in Calgary this weekend, so I figured it would be timely to learn about what the heck is going on within a lovely colourful firework. Turns out, there’s a mind-boggling amount of stuff going on. Mind-boggling as in I read through three different articles before finding one [...]

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FACT: onions make you cry by getting acid in your eye

By Ryan | Published: August 18, 2009

When cutting up an onion, you’re likely to start crying. We learned about the three different kinds of tears a few weeks ago; lubricating, reflex, and emotional. Assuming that onion hasn’t done anything terrible to you, your tears are most likely of the reflex variety. They are produced in order to flush an irritant out [...]

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