The Illinois College chemistry club has been working with the Illinois Heartland Section of the ACS with support from the ACS Presidential Climate Science Challenge grant to engage the public on the issue of climate change. This poster will describe the interactive chemistry demonstrations used by our club that have been developed for this purpose. In this poster we will describe the experiments we use to explain the role of carbon dioxide in the greenhouse effect, the density of carbon dioxide, and the acidification of salt water by carbon dioxide. These easy to perform demonstrations allow us to explain issues associated with climate change to the public at various levels of scientific training, elementary school through college chemistry and beyond.

Climate change outreach demonstrations

249th National Meeting (2015)

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