If you have read "Getting Started" and "Basic Gas Techniques", you are ready to start making gases and performing experiments, classroom demonstrations and lab activities with your students.

To start your career as a gas chemist, we suggest you work with carbon dioxide, hydrogen and then oxygen. These three gases are easy to produce, are non-toxic, produce no waste and are fun.

If you wish to bring history into your discussion, all three gases are historically significant. Visit the "History of Gas Chemistry" to learn more.


Cheap (less than 1/2 cent per 60 mL) easy and fun! Do carbon dioxide first.

Hydrogen costs a fortune compared to carbon dioxide, but still only 2.7 cents/60 mL -- a few dollars for a lab of 20 students)
 

Oxygen rounds out the trilogy -- and costs only 2 cents/60 mL to make!
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