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About the show
Adventures into Chemistry is a podcast for anyone who’s ever wondered what’s really going on inside the stuff around us.
Chemistry is the reason your phone battery works, why onions make you cry, how a tiny tweak to a molecule can turn a poison into a lifesaving drug. It’s strange, powerful, and sometimes a little chaotic.
This show dives into the quirky, mind-bending corners of advanced chemistry, Reactions that were discovered by accident. Molecules that glow, explode, heal, stain, or refuse to react at all.