Chemistry For Your Life
Melissa and Jam, Bleav
A podcast that helps you understand the fascinating chemistry hidden in your everyday life.Have you ever wondered why onions make you cry? Or how soap gets your hands clean? What really is margarine, or why do trees change colors in the fall? Melissa is a chemist, and to answer these questions she started a podcast, called Chemistry for your life!In each episode Melissa explains the chemistry behind one of life’s mysteries to Jam, who is definitely not a chemist, but she explains it in a way tha...
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Ask a Chemist: Why are crystals rare? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
Do carrots help us see better?
Chemistry For Your Life
What makes honey crystallize?
Chemistry For Your Life
How do things glow in the dark?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Why do self-tanners smell weird? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
How does spray tan stain our skin?
Chemistry For Your Life
What makes jalapeños spicy, and what other crazy properties do they have?
Chemistry For Your Life
Why does ibuprofen take so long to work?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Does raw milk have more bacteria? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
How do pain killers relieve pain?
Chemistry For Your Life
Why do we use fluoride on our teeth?
Chemistry For Your Life
What are dental fillings and how are they chemistry?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Reddit's Chemistry Questions Answered
Chemistry For Your Life
What is up with RAW milk?
Chemistry For Your Life
What happens to eggs when we cook them? (with Jason Cress)
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Bonus: Fun Fact or Fake Factoid?! A Chemistry and Trivia Showdown
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Neuroscientist: Why is Adderall addictive to SOME people and not others? (...
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How do anti-depressants work? (featuring Claire Caballero)
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Vitamin C: Myths, Facts, and Daily Needs
Chemistry For Your Life
Why do apples turn brown when we cut them?
Chemistry For Your Life
Should we take Vitamin C when we're sick?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Why do chemicals smell "chemically?" (And other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
How does Vitamin C keep our bodies from turning into mush?
Chemistry For Your Life
Do anti-aging products work?
Chemistry For Your Life
What even ARE vitamins? And do we actually need them?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Why do you need yogurt to make yogurt? (And other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
Why does hair turn grey when we age?
Chemistry For Your Life
Why do bad smells smell bad?
Chemistry For Your Life
What is old people smell? And is the internet wrong about it?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Reddit Edition!
Chemistry For Your Life
Is compost dirt??
Chemistry For Your Life
How do sunglasses protect our eyes?
Chemistry For Your Life
What are the Northern Lights?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Can you dissolve a liquid into a solid? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
Did the FDA eliminate Forever Chemicals? (PFAS Part 5!)
Chemistry For Your Life
Why do things fade in the sun?
Chemistry For Your Life
What's the REAL reason we can't look at a solar eclipse?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: How does purple shampoo work, or does it? (and other questions)
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What is Vitamin D? And what does it have to do with the sun?!
Chemistry For Your Life
Why do plants die in freezing weather?
Chemistry For Your Life
What's up with Fahrenheit, Celsius, and... Kelvin?
Chemistry For Your Life
Ask a Chemist: Why do metals look metallic? (and other questions!)
Chemistry For Your Life
How do infrared thermometers work?
Chemistry For Your Life
How do we see our breath in the air?
Chemistry For Your Life
Thermometers: what is the chemistry behind them?
Chemistry For Your Life
Bonus: How do "forever chemicals" sneak into our clothes? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life
What is yogurt?
Chemistry For Your Life
What is cheese? And what does it have in common with soap?
Chemistry For Your Life
What even is cinnamon?
Chemistry For Your Life
Bonus: What's the chemistry of kombucha? (and other questions)
Chemistry For Your Life