• Question: what is your favorite experiment

    Asked by anon-227562 to Georgia, Harry on 15 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-227592, anon-226621.
    • Photo: Georgia Orton

      Georgia Orton answered on 15 Nov 2019:


      Ooh, I do so many! I tend not to do the same experiment twice though. My favourite machine to use is X-ray diffraction because it gives beautiful pictures of exactly what my molecules look like and how the atoms are joined together.
      My favourite experiment to do in schools is extracting DNA from strawberries https://youtu.be/NCu7T_1_WLo But in my lab I enjoy anything with pretty colours haha. This is my colleague’s chemical he made:

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