Publisher's Synopsis
Requiring only the use of common household products, these fun and educational experiments provide a hands-on introduction to the make-up of substances and the changes that occur in them under varying conditions. This book is an tool for teaching children how chemicals can be controlled.;Fully illustrated projects include - making hard water soft, testing for starch in foods, producing oxygen and carbon dioxide, testing for and neutralizing acid, separating water into oxygen and hydrogen molecules, creating carbonation, making invisible ink, growing crystals, electroplating a key, separating food dyes, testing for unknown ingredients.