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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Determine how different colors of light affect the brightness of a sun-print image.
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Make Your Own Markers by Extracting plant pigments.
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Use paper chromatography to analyze ink components in permanent black markers.
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Test how strongly fiber-reactive dyes color different fabric types.
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Which of coffee, beets, spinach, mustard, or blueberries make the best dye.
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Coloring Fabrics With Dyes From Plant Materials by Using Chromatography
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What color candle burns the fastest?
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Determine the properties of various kinds of paints.
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Is there any difference between white egg shells and brown?
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Colors
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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Use UV beads to study a chemical reaction to find out how temperature affects the rate at which UV beads lose their color.
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Determine if a viscous spray made with alginate, a natural, biodegradable compound produced in the cell walls of brown algae, is an effective fire-retardant alternative based on its ability to prevent combustion and burning.
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Effectiveness of Fire Retardant Paints
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Spectroscopic Study of the Kinetics of Decontamination Reactions using New Programmable Colorimeter
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Compare different chromatography substrates and solvents to see which combination performs best for separating ink components.
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Are the inks of different markers and highlighters mixtures of the same colors (chromatography)?
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Find out how well natural dyes color different types of natural fabrics and compare them to commercial dyes.
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Effectiveness of Fire Retardant Paints
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Can chili pepper be used to create an environmentally friendly alternative to toxic boat bottom paints?
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Which light source will cause dyes to fade the most?
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Examines how photo printer, paper and the image color printed impacts the fading of photographs when they are exposed to UV light.
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Which fire preventing paint, Latex Paint or No-Burn Plus is more efficient in preventing fire?
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Determine which of three plant dyes (strawberries, beets, and tomatoes) will make the best red color on fabric.
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Deternine how weather affects the colors of sunrises and sunsets.
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Determine if all reds contain the same pigments and have the same physical characteristics.
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How Does Sodium Carbonate Influence the Process of a Fiber Reactive Dye?
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Can Homeland Security Benefit from the Use of Heat and Light Sensitive Inks?
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Determine if dyed table napkins are less absorbent than undyed ones.
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Destruction of Natural Pigments by the Interaction of UV Light and Oxygen
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Determine the optimum pH for dyeing 100% cotton cellulose fabric using fiber reactive dyes.
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How Well Do Vegetable and Fruit Dyes Work?
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Is wood strength affected by different types of paint?
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Research Metamerism (Is Your Blue Really Blue?)
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Determine what color of plastic helps water to evaporate more efficiently.
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Investigate how various colored surfaces heat up in the sunlight during the day and how they cool at night.
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Determine if the ink used in washable markers is different from the ink used in permanent markers
Interdisciplinary Topic: Colors
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project   E=Experiment
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Reducing The Flammability of Paint
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Preparing composite Materials with using waste tea pomace in order to obviate colour of the water which is the waste of textile colour factory
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Make a Colorimeter to Measure the Concentration of Blue Dye in Various Liquids.
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Investigate the colors produced when different chemicals are burned.
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Make a Colorimeter to Measure the Concentration of Blue Dye in Various Liquids.
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How permanent are permanent markers?
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Compare the properties of various kinds of paints
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An Innovative Method to Reduce VAT Dyes Electrolytically by Avoiding Toxic Sodium Hydrosulfite
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What factors affect how well a piece of cloth is dyed?
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Enhanced color Thin-Layer Chromatography: determining the identity of two substances, or monitoring the progress of a reaction.
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The effect of different pH levels on coloring agents in the statis
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Pigment Separation in Allium cepa (Red Onions) using Circular Paper Chromatography
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Thin-layer chromatography vs. spectroscopy: analysis techniques of color identification in cosmetics
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Monitor the progress of a chemical reaction by measuring the amount of colored light absorbed by the solution as the reaction progresses.
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Quantifying the effect of tungsten illumination on color rendering of low-pressure sodium
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Colors
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Chemistry Resources
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Periodic Table Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Chemical Safety
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Chemistry Science Fair Projects Books
    
    
    
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