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Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti

Flame
Temperature was really high! Ouch!

Picture by Aleksandar Kondinski
Time for Theory

Chemistry is indeed an interplay of experiment and theory. Nowadays, with thousands of chemists working in front of computers, the definition of a lab goes beyond its original boundaries.

Picture by Tina Michetti
Foam!

A redox reaction between KI and H2O2.

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Picture by Tina Michetti

Dry ice

Picture by Subramanyan Namboodiri Varanakkottu

SMART materials

Spiropyran is a photosensitive smart material, which undergoes reversible structural change upon UV-Visible irradiation. The photograph shows the photochromatic properties of a water drop containing Spiropyran under different illumination conditions.

Picture by Torsten John

Made in Germany: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Western Germany united in a lab

Glassware and its cleaning are the main part of a normal lab day for a chemist. You will find it “Made in Germany” all over the world, even in a lab in Australia, where this picture was taken.

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Picture by Annika Buchheit and Mariano Grünebaum

Formation of NaK alloy

Formation of liquid NaK alloy by just placing a piece of sodium on potassium.

Picture by Julia Bader

Still life in purple

Always look at your NMR tubes before washing them, you’ll be amazed at what you may find!

Picture by Julia Bader

Glass in motion?

The beauty of a Vigreux column.

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Picture by John Howse
Target filling station

GE cyclotron, target filling station. Production 18F.

Picture by Raquel De Francisco

The amazing dancing floor

A droplet of water bouncing on a superhydrophobic and light-emitting surface. To the left, a static water droplet looks on and wants to mimic it. The latter will become a awesome dancer very soon.

This multifunctional coating, which combines superhydrophobicity and luminiscence, is based on polyfluorene and silica nanoparticles. It has been used to coat glass and celullose supports and maybe the basis for future highly hydrophobic electronics.

Picture by Priyanka Patel

Caffeine–salicylic acid co-crystal

Dissolving caffeine and salicylic acid in acetonitrile and leaving the solution overnight gives this type of co-crystal the next morning.

 

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Picture by Laura Yates

Water bead ‘molymod’

A ‘molymod’ style structure of a fluorocarbon made by using beads of colored water to represent the carbon and fluorine atoms. This has been carried out on a piece of fabric which has been treated with a fluorocarbon rendering it water repellent.

Picture by Tobius Dörr

The crystallization of “syncarpinsäure”

Picture by Mohsen Ahmadi

My synthesized materials, made with minimal facilities!

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Picture by Zahra Nasri

Work on the glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) enzyme

Picture by Zahra Nasri

My electrochemical cell

Picture by Zahra Nasri

My great experiment (I guess!)

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Picture by Johannes Thomé

This picture was taken while a middle school class had their first experience with chemistry. The children had a lot to be astonished about.

Picture by Christoph Göbel

Silica Stalagmite
This stalagmite was formed from silica in cyclohexane. Silica dried when poured into the column resulting in this structure.

Picture by Melanie Schnabel

“Green” Chemistry

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Picture by Melanie Schnabel

Violent Violet

An oxidation reaction with potassium permanganate was too violent.

Picture by Melanie Schnabel

Checking the Vacuum

Picture by Yogeshwar Dubhashe

Thin layer Chromatography (TLC) of Indole.
Here the TLC plate was developed using two different stains: 1) in an iodine chamber, which results in a brown spot on TLC plate. This is due to complexation between iodine and indole. 2) By spraying Ehrlich’s reagent which results in a purple spot. This is due to a reaction of Ehrlich’s reagent with indole.

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Picture by Maysoon Alhafez and Rahaf Alhalabi

Cobalt

Cobalt chloride as a solid and in solution.

Picture by Maysoon Alhafez and Rahaf Alhalabi

Colorful Salt Solutions
Solutions of cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, and chromium salts respectively, which were used in a “bead test”.

Picture by Eva Mutoro

Happy Lab

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Picture by Yazan Nader

Experience in Analytical Chemistry

Chloroform with iodine

Picture by Lena Thomé

Colorful Test Tubes

Picture by Yazan Nader

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Picture by Ruba Jarrar

Simple Distillation

Picture by Benjamin Schneider

Blue Bubbles

Picture by Benjamin Schneider

Mixing in Water

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Picture by Lena Thomé

Ionic Crystal Tower

Picture by Hendrik Pöpke

Smoking Liquids

Gas phase reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia
leading to nice clouds of ammonium chloride.

Picture by Eva Mutoro

Chromatography

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Picture by Ansar Nazzal

Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Measuring emission and excitation

Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Acetone and Liquid Nitrogen

Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Acetone and Liquid Nitrogen

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Picture by Oana Fronoiu
Another Day in the Lab

Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Chemiluminescence

Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Controlled Release of Drugs

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Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Red Cabbage – pH Indicator

Picture by Oana Fronoiu

Vintage Lab

Picture by Lidia Minza
Magic Milk

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Picture by Lidia Minza

Mess in the Lab!

Picture by Mirela Suchea

Ancient beauty

A digitally colored scanning electron image of crystalline silver grown onto copper in a silver nitrate solution to give a “silver-tree” or, going back to the times of the alchemists, “Arbor Dianæ”.

Picture by Farah Brangakgi

Fehling Solution

Boiling Fehling 1 and Fehling 2 solutions containing sugar. A brown color precipitate should appear.

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Picture by Charles Bou Nader

Laboratory Fumehood for Homogeneous Catalysis Experiments

A sudden idea related to a mechanism emerges during an experiment. Unfortunately, you have nothing to write on except “the hood”. Sometimes inspiration gets the best of you and there is no time to waste! The beauty of chemistry comes from our creativity and imagination, allowing us to push even further the limits of our knowledge and therefore our curiosity.

Picture by Ruba Jarrar

Simple Filtration

Picture by Zahra Rashedi

Recovery of Chemical Wastes

 

 

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