Cesar Chavez Day – California
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To learn about Chavez, check out last year’s post.
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Also, Happy Birthday, Robert Bunsen
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This was a guy who liked to blow things up!
A guy who “loved anything that spewed from the ground”!
A guy who knew his chemistry and made some inventions and discoveries.
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Born in Germany on this day in 1811, Robert Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner. This piece of laboratory equipment uses gas to produce a single open flame that can be used to sterilize instruments and to heat or burn substances. He also developed some ways to analyze gas and a method of using a spectroscope to identify elements. With Gustav Kirchhoff, he discovered cesium and rubidium.
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Celebrate…
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…by burning things or blowing things up—but only if you have an adult and a safe lab or outdoor area in which to do your chemistry experiments!!!
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Here and here and here are some more great experiments.
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If you don’t have a safe place and a helping adult, watch some episodes of Mythbusters. Those guys are ALWAYS blowing stuff up!
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