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Chemistry in Everyday Life is a podcast that aims to explain the fascinating world of chemistry to lay people with the help of common examples encountered all around us.
Roads are one of the defining features of modern civilizations, believe it or not. To me and I think most others, the state of the roads in...
It takes a little bit more than 100mg of cyanide to kill a 75 kg human being. A little more than 100mg and the unfortunate victim will show...
Both starch and cellulose are made of glucose, one of the main sources of energy for the human body. Yet... we can digest starch that we fin...
Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. Today’...
Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. Today’...
Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. I aske...
PLEASE NOTE: During the month of August, I will repeat some previous episodes. If you want to influence which episodes will be played, you c...
Have you ever wondered how all these scientists come up with their findings in forensics, environmental science, pharmaceuticals, … cooking,...
Have you ever wondered how all these scientists come up with their findings in forensics, environmental science, pharmaceuticals, … cooking,...
After talking about red blood cells two episodes ago, this episode looks at a different bodily fluid. One that helps in the digestion of fat...
In this episode I confront the horrible memory of my one and only bad car crash. I only remember fragments, but the airbag was a big part of...
Oxygen in, Carbon Dioxide out. We learn this basic paradigm about breathing from a very early age on. But how does it work? From a chemical...
Why does iron rust? Why does this not happen for stainless steel? How else can we protect materials from corrosion? If you want to know, lis...
I always found the concept of energy in the human body very intriguing… or in any organism for that matter. The term energy is very abstract...
Space. The Final frontier… a friend of mine asked me if there is chemistry in space and how it is different from the chemistry, we observe h...
I always tried to avoid making an episode about making alcoholic beverages, because there is already so much great content about it and I di...
Batteries are ubiquitous in daily life and I took them for granted for such a long time that I felt obliged to write an episode about them....
From winter gloves and people with inverted organs to the effects of molecular mirror images. Chirality can be found everywhere, so it is hi...
We talked about Glow Sticks, we talked about Fireworks. Now it feels like the right time to look at another big factor in color of compounds...
Our 2020 new year’s celebration had to look quite different this year. The Belgian government had to restrict contact, so no extended family...
So it was time again to add a little Diesel Exhaust Fluid, also known as AdBlue, to the gas tank of my car. So I stood there in the cold win...
This episode is inspired by my wife's recent experience at the dentist where she needed to get a filling done. It was her first and it remin...
After discussing for 3 episodes the cutting edge technology that led to a Nobel Prize, I would like to return back to more mundane things an...
Welcome back to the last episode of this Nobel Prize series during which I discuss the technology for which the two research groups around P...
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for "for the development of a method for genome editing...
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for "for the development of a method for genome editing...
In this episode, I discuss a special group of materials called hydrogels. For something that is hardly ever mentioned publically, it has a s...
We all know that statues in the cities are green, like for example the statue of liberty. But do you all know why they are green? This episo...
Why do our eyes burn and tear when we cut onions? This listener question will be discussed in this episode. I can now be reached on twitter...
Water is all around us and we kind of take it for granted. It is an accepted basis for life and makes our planet inhabitable. Have you guys...
This episode is based on a discussion I had with an acquaintance at a barbecue. He, being the smarty pants that he is, asked "Do you know th...
When talking about chemistry, one of the first topics to breach is the chemistry of soap. In the time of a global pandemic, washing our hand...
I love fireworks, folks. I don't see the spectacle often, but when I do , it is an absolute beauty to behold, especially when it is an entir...
Virtually every time before I record an episode of my podcast, I open a can of coke. That little 'fizz' sound heralds the beginning of my la...
After we discussed the concept of catalysis in our last episode, it is only fitting to look at a specific example. If you are interested in...
Catalysis is a word that is rarely used in daily life, yet it influences many facets of it. If you are interested to know how catalysis chan...
When you immerse an egg in vinegar the shell will slowly disappear, leaving a flexible and bouncy egg. Bread dough leavens when you use baki...
Proteins are one of the key elements that define life in a way that we know. They have such a vast array of functions it is staggering. Seem...
The sun is the source of life on this world, yet at the same time it can be very dangerous for us and other lifeforms on earth. The life giv...
The sun is the source of life on this world, yet at the same time it can be very dangerous for us and other lifeforms on earth. The life giv...
On the surface, a diamond and a pencil have nothing in common. One is one of the hardest and valuable materials known to man and the other i...