Soo, I have to come up with an idea for a chemistry project. It can be about anything chemistry related that you can think of. It has to be 5-10 pages so what I pick needs to have a lot of info. Some examples of topics my teacher gave are such: are polymers safe to contain food, how to make synthetic perfume, or if napoleon was poisoned. Let me know if you guys got any good ideas for a topic, I'd appreciate it.

How to make an acid that can dissolve most metals? Basics of gunpowder and things that go boom? Homemade mentos-and-coke bombs, and why they work?

The reaction of H₂N₄ and H₂O₄, AKA dihydrogen tetraoxide and Hydrazine. Analysis can include change in enthalpy and entropy, the presence or absence of toxic or corrosive properties, the free energy needed to react, expected products per mole of reactant, methods to contain/utilize the reaction, and as a finishing touch throw in the fact that it's bipropellant rocket fuel.

Whenever I was free to pick my own topic, I'd go for something that interests me: cars, weapons, etc. So if I were you, I'd go for explosives, perhaps home-made. Just hope they won't arrest you.

The effects of food on the acidity of your pee-fluid.

I did my chem project on the creation of drugs and their usefulness to assassinate people (I think i used ricin).

Do some type of drug idea, like paper bag meth, just for the hell of it. (idk if normal meth would apply to what you need)

Turn lead into gold.

Alchemy gogogo!

How chemistry is entirely inferior to alchemy.

Hey, it's actually possible, don't look at me, that's why I said it

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalchemistry/a/aa050601a.htm

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction.

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Hey, it's actually possible, don't look at me, that's why I said it

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalchemistry/a/aa050601a.htm

But it's possible via particle physics. Although interesting, he is not in that subject.

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I also vote explosives. Thermite would be pretty cool too though.

Thanks everyone some really good ideas in here. Explosions would be fun to do a project on and a lot of info. The creation of drugs and their usefulness to assassinate people would be pretty interesting as well. The bipropellant rocket fuel one sounds good too.

My professor worked for NASA and is really open minded to any idea, so I'm sure I'll be able to select of of the ideas you guys gave. I'll let you guys which idea I pick, but still keep the ideas coming if you have anymore.

I like that

Write about how China controls 90%+ of the world's production of lanthanides, and how it's going to cause a meltdown in western civilisation when they start declining to sell them.

Or, peak oil, but that's not strictly chemistry.

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Or, peak oil, but that's not strictly chemistry.

Neither is your part about China's control of Lanthanides...it's more of an economics or world issues thing. However, a paper on the uses, properties, and relative abundance of lanthanides...

Dude make something with greek fire! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+greek+fire

That would be so awesome. Greek fire, when mixed in like tar or something, is flammable. Not only is it flammable though; the chemicals in the greek fire react violently with water as it comes into contact with water.

...I'd advise against the whole Greek Fire idea. Far too dangerous. Did I mention that napalm is safe enough to feed to your kids compared to this?