²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ KEM Club participates in National Chemistry Week
Dec. 12, 2022 – DENTON – The ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ KEM Club (Kappa Epsilon Mu) recently participated in the annual National Chemistry Week at the .
The Museum invites local schools and organizations to come to the museum to do chemistry-related demonstrations to visitors that come to the museum.
This year’s theme was "Fabulous Fibers, the Chemistry of Fabrics." The ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ contingent did a demonstration of DNA extraction of strawberries, because DNA is a fiber and the fabric of life. ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ students guided the attending children through the extraction and through safety procedures. The kids smashed up a strawberry, used soap and salt to break up the cell membranes and extracted the DNA using a solvent.
The ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ students also modeled fibers at the molecule level and allowed the attending children to look through a microscope at different fabrics.
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