The July feature of科学避署ments, the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) weekly podcast series, shines the spotlight on the science of fireworks, just in time for the July 4thholiday. The episode is available atwww.acs.org/scienceelements.
Independence Day is a time for picnics, parades and, of course, fireworks. Those beautiful explosions in the sky would be nothing without chemistry. In today’s episode, Science Elements talks to the man who literally wrote the book on fireworks.
“Everything you see in a fireworks display is chemistry in action,” says John Conkling, Ph.D., of Washington College.
Other recent topics of科学避署mentspodcasts include:
- How white bread encourages the growth of “good” microbes in the gut
- Deadly bacteria that elude detection in the body
- The surprising reason why smog continues to soar in Los Angeles
New episodes are available oniTuneson everyMondayandWednesdayand on theACS websiteeveryWednesday.
