Baking soda is touted as a natural cleaning/beauty/deodorising/miscellaneous super powder. It can deodorise fridges and shoes, clean practically anything, treat insect bites, relieve heartburn and soften skin as a bath soak. Just to name a few. So why is baking soda so brilliant? It’s because baking soda is amphoteric meaning it can act as either acidic or alkaline. In water however, it is generally
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Water and oil don’t mix, because in the mixtures world: like attracts like. And oil and water don’t have much in common. Water is a tiny polar molecule – which means it has a slight positive and negative charge to it. Water molecules hang around together because their positive and negative charges are attracted to one another– just like opposite ends
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I’m reminded about how fragile and complex our bodies are every time I sit funny, or lie on my arm in my sleep. That sometimes paralysing pain that comes after the numbness because you’ve sat on your foot for too long is your body waking back up again. Pins-and-needles happens because a nerve is squished or doesn’t have enough blood
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Domestic Microscope 