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Piezoelectric Igniter Code: PZ Price: $3.43 Quantity in Basket: none These sleek black ignitors are what you need for the Film Can Cannon project. They are also perfect for the Plastic Hydrogen Bomb project in the Electrochemistry Chapter. Producing a very hot 18,000 volt spark, they will light up neon lamps, LEDs, or just plain surprise the pants off of someone

Piezoelectric Igniter 10 pack Code: PZ10 Price: $22.86 Quantity in Basket: none A pack of 10 piezoelectric igniters.

Happy Drinking Bird Code: DRINKBIRD Price: $11.83 Quantity in Basket: none This is the classic tabletop heat engine. The glass body of the brightly colored bird contains a liquid that rises from the warm bottom to the evaporatively cooled top, and then spills back as the beak dips into the water to keep the head cool. Can also be used to determine relative humidity, or modified to be a solar heat engine.

African Propeller Toy Code: PROPTOY Price: $11.92 Quantity in Basket: none This is the propellor-on-a-stick the Wright Brothers had as kids. Great fun to fly, these are hand made by woodworking artisans in Africa, and painted so that no two are alike.

Plastic Propeller Toy Code: PLASTICPROP Price: $1.67 Quantity in Basket: none The plastic version of the Propeller Toy. Colorful and lightweight, these won't hurt anything when playing in the house, and they fly 30 feet high, or can be aimed for playing catch, or flown into the wind for a boomerang effect. Great fun for all ages.

Electrodes Code: ELECTRODES Price: $6.00 Quantity in Basket: none One 4 inch strip of aluminum , one three inch strip of zinc, and one three inch strip of copper. Excellent for making lemon or potato batteries, Coca-Cola batteries, or as items in your collection of elements of the periodic table. These make good samples for Aluminum, Zinc, and Copper in your collection of samples for the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Sample Vials Code: SAMPLEVIALS Price: $9.37 Quantity in Basket: none Ten sample vials with labels for the periodic table of the elements. Start filling out your element collection today!

Fifty Sample Vials Code: 50SAMPLEVIALS Price: $38.21 Quantity in Basket: none Fifty sample vials with stick on labels for the periodic table of the elements. For when you know you'll have at least 50 elements in your collection.

Agarose Code: Agarose Price: $4.73 Quantity in Basket: none Molecular Biology Grade Agarose This is the high purity gelling agent needed for gel electrophoresis experiments. Each tiny one inch square packet contains between 600 and 700 milligrams of agarose, enough to make 50 to 100 milliliters of gel, depending on the gel strength you choose to make. For large DNA fragments, a weak gel is needed, so most experimenters will be using one packet in 100 milliliters of distilled water. Dissolves easily in cold water. Microwave 100 milliliters for 30 seconds to make the gel.

Methylene Blue Dye Code: MethyleneBlue Price: $4.86 Quantity in Basket: none Methylene Blue Dye Concentrated dye powder used for staining DNA. Dilute with 4 liters (or a gallon) of water to make a strong dark dye. Used for staining microscope speciments to show the nucleus, or to stain DNA in gel electrophoresis to show the banding (DNA fingerprinting, or DNA barcoding). Also has fun uses in chemistry as a dissolved oxygen indicator.