Chemistry Facts

Here are some fun, interesting and sometimes a bit weird chemistry facts. You can memorize them and after that use that information on the chemistry class. Have fun!

• Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.

• Gallium is a metal which melts on palm of the hand, due to its low melting point.

• There’s enough gold in the Earth’s crust to cover the entire land surface knee-deep.
  

  Did you know that Coca Cola originally contained cocaine?

• An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 80 km (50 miles) long.

• Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

• Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.

• Every time lightening strikes, ozone is created.

• Water expands by about 10% as it freezes.

• DNA is flame retardant.

• Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

• Oxygen dissolves in cool water easier than in warm water.

• The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter J.

• The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 ‘lead’ pencils.

• The oxygen that is found in the air is produced by photosynthesis. Without plants, there would be very little oxygen in the air.

• Glass is actually a liquid, it just flows very, very slowly.

• The hardest chemical in your body is your tooth enamel.

• Mosquitoes like the scent of estrogen, thus women get bitten more often than men do.

• The lighter was invented before the match.

• At room temperature, there are only two liquid elements. These are bromine and mercury.