Date: Oct. 27, 2012 - Oct. 28, 2012	Time: 10:30am-3:30pm	Located at: OMSI's Featured Hallway
Who is this for: NA	Cost: Free

National Chemistry Week

Join us as OMSI celebrate's National Chemistry Week, Nanotechnology: The Smallest BIG idea in Science! On Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28 from 10:30am-3:30pm we will have ongoing activities and demos in the Featured Hallway.

Enjoy a preview of The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements. A new documentary about one of the great advetures in the history of science: the long and (continuing) quest to understand what the world is made of - to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter. In a nutshell, the project is about the human story behind the Periodic Table of Elements.

Thin Films: Create an iridescent layer of nail polish only a few hundred nanometers thick to decorate a bookmark.

Fizzy Business: How does fizzy powder compare to a fizzy tablet when it comes to inflating a balloon?

Write-Light: Write on a paper and use your writing to conduct electricty.

Scents and Sensibility: Use your nose to detect particles too small to see.

Liquid Crystals: Dunk some special liquid crystal-coated cars into hot and cold water to make them change color.

Mitten Challenge: Put on some big gloves to find out why it's so hard for scientists to make exact molecules.

All Together Now: Create a self-assembling balls of slime!

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