Brilio.net/en - Many students find chemical as a difficult subject to study, let alone to remember it. So this creative people from Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions made a fun video that could help people to understand chemical elements easier and faster.
Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions is research fellowship program that looking for researchers around the world from all disciplines to be funded. The program also supports industrial doctorates, combining academic research study with work in companies, and other innovative training that enhances employability and career development.
The video shows a group of people inside a room, and each person is named under a chemical element or formula. Just like any other party, some people look fun together, some bond intimately with each other while some other stand by themselves and not blending in.
The video started with the Hydrochloride (HCl) couple who danced together but Zinc (Zn) came along and stole Chloride away. It means that the collision of Hydrochloride and Zinc will cause an element replacement that put Hydrogen away and made a new formula, which is ZnCl2.
Meanwhile in other corner, Neon (Ne) and Hydrogen (H) were standing still with no attraction at all. Only when Carbon (C) came, Hydrogen was directly attracted, along with four other Hydrogens and made a Carbon (CH4). Noble gases such as Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Radon (Rn) and Helium (He) do not bond with other element. Oxygen (O) bonds with its own kind, which made O2, but Hydrogen can break the bond of two Oxygens and take away one of them and becomes HO2.
One example of the two contradictive formulas is shown when Water (H2O) meets Potassium (K). The collision of these can cause an explosive reaction. The video stopped here but it already showed the audience how fun science and chemicals could be. Perhaps schools must start to use this method to help students learn better?
Video: You Tube/European Commission
(Reported by Victoria Tunggono)