Science for Wizards

science activities for harry potter fans – because sometimes science can seem like magic

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Capillary Action – the movement of water through a material because of intermolecular forces of the water with that material. The movement can be in opposition of other forces, like gravity.

Chemical Reactions – chemical reactions involve the combination or rearrangement of elements of compounds with different elements or compounds to form new products.

Chemical bonding – the interaction or attraction of molecules or atoms

Density – a physical property of a material that is the mass of the object divided by the volume of the object.

Forces – a push or pull on an object that can cause it to move or stop moving

Polymers – a type of chemical that is a long chain of the same smaller monomer unit.

Refractive Index – a property that describes how light moves through materials

Solubility – is a characteristic that describes how well some material (solute) mixes into another material (solvent). The beteter the materials mix, the more soluble they are. The less the materials mix, the more insoluble they are.