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In my chemistry class junior year of high school, we made ice cream and it was meant to show temperature difference and how salt changes the boiling/melting point of water. we also made electromagnets senior year in my physics class and had a contest to see who could dangle the most paperclips off the ends of the nails. In college we’ve done standing waves, specific heat, the EM spectrum, and others that escape my memory.

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