"Beautiful Chemistry" which conveys the beauty of chemistry by gathering beautiful movies of beautiful chemical reactions and beautiful chemical structures

A movie photographing the moment when a chemical reaction occurs using a 4 K resolution Ultra HD camera and a special lens and publishing contents reproducing CG with a beautiful chemical structure selected from scientific literature is "Beautiful Chemistry"is.

Beautiful Chemistry
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Beautiful Chemistry has published a number of movies that photographed various chemical reactions in the near future, and each can see a beautiful sight that can not be seen in everyday life.

Beautiful Reactions
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First of all from the series of "precipitation".

Beautiful Reactions: Precipitation on Vimeo


How silver nitrate + sodium chloride changes to silver chloride + sodium nitrate. Silver chloride will sink downward.


This is represented by a chemical reaction formula: 2AgNO 3 + K 2 CrO 4 → Ag 2 CrO 4 + 2 KNO 3. Silver chromate precipitates.


When copper sulfate and sodium hydroxide are combined, the blue mass will fall downward.


Next is a movie that makes "chemical garden".

Beautiful Reactions: Chemical Garden on Vimeo


This is the result of combining calcium chloride and sodium silicate.


When cobalt chloride is combined with sodium silicate, first a pink substance is formed and then it changes to blue.


The result of chemical reaction of zinc sulfate and sodium silicate.


Iron chloride and sodium silicate.


This is cobalt sulfate and sodium silicate.


A reaction collection when zinc is dropped into various solutions.

Beautiful Reactions: Metal Displacement on Vimeo


First of all, a combination of silver nitrate and zinc. It is as if the ice cream is coming.


Add zinc to a solution of copper sulfate.


Crystals will slide on the slings and zinc.


This is a combination of lead nitrate and zinc.


There are also movies that focus on crystals.

Beautiful Reactions: Crystallization on Vimeo


This is a crystal of copper sulfate.


Crystals of sodium thiosulfate.


Sodium acetate.


Besides thisA movie that changes the color of flowers by chemical substances or generates bubbles like glass beadsThere are, however, content that focuses not only on movies of chemical reactions but also on the "beautiful structure of materials".

Quasicrystals
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Click the item "Crystals of Nanocrystals" on the web page.


Nanocrystals are usually made up of polyhedrons such as cubes, tetrahedrons and octahedrons, and why polyhedra are contained in crystals is currently being studied.


In fact it is possible to see the octahedrons that make up the nanocrystals and to take a closer look from the left and right.


This is an item of "Quasicrystals". The quasicrystal discovered by Daniel Shehetmann in 1984 is called the "third solid". So far solids were divided into "crystals" in which atoms and molecules are regularly arranged and "amorphous" which exist separately, but quasicrystals are said to be "regularity but not periodicity"State. Many quasi-crystals were not very stable and many defects were found, so much effort was required for discovery.


Quasicrystal was able to generate crystals by clicking the figure on the web page.