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Aluminum and Mercury
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All about Mercury, the Liquid Metal | Element Series
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Extracting DNA from strawberries and eating it
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Extracting the citric acid from lemons
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Making Soap
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The Iodine Myth
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Making nylon
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Extracting urea from my own pee
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Turning soap into oil and making French fries
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Making margarine from olive oil
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Making lead crystals that taste sweet
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Making glow sticks from scratch
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Turning batteries into medicine
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Dissolving Gold in Mercury
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Making laughing gas
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Making Mercury (Part 1)
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Making bakelite plastic (Part 1)
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Extracting mercury from contaminated water
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Turning my own pee into an artificial sweetener
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Extracting the spicy chemical in black pepper
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Making an old pain and fever medication
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Making an old hypnotic sedative and preservative
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Turning aspirin pills into mint flavor
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Making liquid soap
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What is Milk made of?
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Aluminum and Mercury - Trying out your suggestions!
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The Cannizzaro reaction
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Making a Mysterious Foam
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Making nylon plastic
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Making Mercury (Part 2)
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Recreating the Briggs-Rauscher oscillating reaction
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Extracting the theobromine from cocoa powder
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Recreating the world's first test for diabetes
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Turning mint flavor into a glowing liquid
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Making bakelite plastic (Part 2)
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Making Trimethylamine - The Stench of Rotting Fish
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Making a dye from scratch and coloring socks!
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Storing mercury without water
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Making a Nylon Precursor using Green Chemistry
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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 6 of 6: Acetaminophen from p-aminophenol
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Aspirin to Acetaminophen - Part 5 of 6: Reducing p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol