Chemistry World Blog

Drum roll please! It’s the twelfth (and final) day of our topical Christmas quiz. On with the show!

In September, we learnt what the minimum number of water molecules needed to form an ice crystal was… How many was it?

Which amino acid reputedly found in high concentrations in turkey is supposedly what makes you feel like having a nap after your Christmas dinner?

Now the answers to yesterday’s quiz.

Pregnant women shouldn’t consume more than 200mg of caffeine per day. Researchers discovered that a single cup of some takeaway espressos contained more than 300mg of caffeine! You can read more here.

The explosive that you’ll find in your Christmas cracker is silver fulminate.

We’ll be back one more time tomorrow with the answers to the last questions. Thanks for following.