Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show
- Event Type
- Social/Informal Event
- Sponsor
- Department of Chemistry
- Location
- 100 Noyes Laboratory (G. L. Clark Hall), 505 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Date
- Dec 7, 2025 2:00 pm
- Speaker
- N/A
- Cost
- Free
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Amanda Ramey, events coordinator
- aramey@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-333-5071
- Originating Calendar
- Campus General Request Event
People juggle flaming "snowballs," a silver mirror "magically" appears inside a large glass flask, liquids instantly change color. Join the Department of Chemistry for the Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show. This family-friendly, holiday themed free event is open to the public and produced by teaching faculty and demonstrates chemistry principles in a fun and approachable way, featuring approximately twenty-five demonstrations that produce the "magic" of chemistry. See what happens to a pickle subjected to high voltage. Discover why helium gas and not hydrogen gas is used in party balloons. Watch as liquid nitrogen is poured into a container of soapy water. The show demonstrates many principles of chemistry, including kinetics, thermodynamics, gas laws and atomic theory. All ages are welcome.
Some demos will cause loud noises or flashes of light that may be disturbing. An announcement will be made immediately before those demos and attendees will be given the opportunity to leave the show while those demos take place.