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Shauna Matsumoto teaches chemistry and physical science at a public high school. With 13 years in the sciences, she worked in industrial chemical production and refinery laboratories before entering the classroom. Matsumoto also contributes pieces on industrial chemistry to Biology Insights.

What Does Iron React With? Oxygen, Acids, and More Chemistry
How to Make Iodine: From Extraction to Solution Chemistry
How to Make Limewater for Chemistry and Testing Chemistry
Why Is Carbon the Most Important Element?Chemistry
Why Is Liquid Hydrogen Used as Rocket Fuel?Physics
Is Graphite Black or Grey? The Science Behind Its Color Chemistry
Why Does Gasoline Smell Good to Some People?Chemistry
Do O2 and O3 Have the Same Properties?Chemistry
How to Make a Polymer: Simple Experiments and Methods Chemistry
Why Do Iron Pills Smell Bad? The Chemistry Explained Chemistry
What Is Sublimation and How Does It Work?Chemistry
Why Do Paper Mills Stink? The Science Behind the Smell Chemistry
What Is the Purpose of Calorimetry?Chemistry
Can You Melt Rust? The Science of Heating Iron Oxide Chemistry
Can You Melt Carbon? The Science of Liquid Carbon Chemistry
After Chlorofluorocarbons Were Banned, What Replaced Them?Chemistry
Why Is Silicon Important in Technology and Biology?Chemistry
What Is in Tar? A Look at Its Chemical Composition Chemistry
What Is Vaporization? The Science Behind the Phase Change Physics
Why Don’t We Breathe Nitrogen Instead of Oxygen?Biology
Can You Make Helium at Home?Chemistry
Does Liquid Mercury Evaporate at Room Temperature?Chemistry
How Are Properties Useful in Classifying Materials?Chemistry
What Is Pure Chemistry and Why Is It Important?Chemistry
What Would Plutonium Taste Like?Chemistry
What Burns Hotter: Kerosene or Diesel?Chemistry
Why Is Helium Important for Science and Industry?Chemistry
What Is an Aerosol Spray and How Does It Work?Physics
What Is H2O3? The Elusive Molecule Trioxidane Chemistry
Why Are Nitrogen and Oxygen Not Greenhouse Gases?Chemistry