The Chemistry invades the classrooms

A student of Chemistry performs a test in a laboratory. PHOTO: Manuel Castells

A group group of students from Chemistry of the University of Navarra has set up several experiments to show high school students and students from Navarre what is high school diploma Navarre what Chemistry is, what applications it has and why this science is present in everything around us.
In total, the students will set up 13 different experiments in more than 40 sessions spread over 18 centers in the region, which will take place between January 17 and 26.
These practices, very visual, will try to explain concepts such as reaction Chemistry, pH, gases or combustion, teaching how to make a homemade fire extinguisher. Or what a polymer is and how to prepare "baboplast", a viscoelastic material marketed as a toy. They will also teach the mechanism of liquid absorption in diapers.
Tomorrow, Friday, the future chemists of the School of Sciences will carry out these experiments for the students of the high school Navarro Villoslada, the high school Carmelitas, the high school of Lecároz, and the Larraona, Dominicas and Jesuitas schools.

Schools participating in the activity:

• high school place de la Cruz
• high school Carmelitas
• high school Navarro Villoslada
• high school Escolapios
• high school Miravalles
• high school Sancho el Mayor
• high school San Cernin
• high school Larraona
• high school Maristas
• high school Teresianas
• high school Ama Orreaga
• high school Lecároz
• high school Sierra Leyre
• high school Dominicans
• high school Jesuits
• high school Ursulines
• high school of the Sacred Heart
• high school Julio Caro Baroja