I can hardly believe that it have already been nine weeks! During the past nine weeks, I introduced five demonstration experiments and I wrote four articles about interesting chemical molecules. The five experiments are “chemical clock”, “elephant’s toothpaste”, “red, blue, and traffic light reaction”, “explosive reaction”, and “hot ice”, while in the other four passages I talked about “nanoputian”, “molecular toy building blocks”, “molecules in daily life”, and “sandwich and hamburger molecule”.
The main reason why I choose my topic “chemistry” is that, as I mentioned before, I am fascinated with chemistry head over heels. Through my posts, I was trying to share this kind of feeling--falling in love with chemistry--with you. Also, when it comes to chemistry, people nowadays tend to think of something horrible like processed foods or something that has nothing to do with their normal lives. But that is the opposite of fact. Therefore, I want to convey the message that chemistry is actually fun and closely related to our lives.
On the other hand, I think that it is the chemistry experiment attracts me the most. First of all, the experiment is fun and exciting! We can observe changes in color, phase, or quantity, and amazing phenomenon as well. In addition, the unpredictability of experiment makes it exciting; you can never expect what will happen next! On top of that, I think that experiment is a bridge between the macroscopic and microscopic world: though we cannot see the molecules directly, we can get a glance of the molecular world through experiment! Doesn’t it sound incredible? Last but not least, it is the most fundament means for us to understand our universe; it is the basic of all great theories. When doing an experiment, it just feels like we’re having a deep conversation with nature. In this way, the experiment is the interpreter between humans and nature.
To sum up, my posts are divided into two parts—one concerning interesting experiments and the other regarding extraordinary molecules. I want to share the sense of “falling in love chemistry” by these posts. Hope you all acknowledge the wonder of chemistry after reading my posts~
