Wednesday, October 14, 2009

CuRioUs cHemiStrY : Food For Thought

#WEIRD AND WACKY#

chewing gum contains the same artificial rubber that you find in car tyres.

Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass. This sounds a bit saucy but it works because there is vinegar in the ketchup. The vinegar doesn't work by polishing the brass. It dissolve the dull layer that forms on brass left in air.

Apricots, cherries and apples make yummy fruits but their seeds contain a tiny amount of cyanide-which is a deadly poison. Don't worry, you'd have to eat loads of these for them to harm you.

Your mum's warning about eating cheese before bedtime aren't just a load of old cheese balls. Cheese actually contains a chemical that can give you a nightmares.

sources from a magazine - HORRIBLE SCIENCE COLLECTION : Chemical Chaos

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