Colorless sodium sulfide solution is added to colorless cadmium(II) chloride solution.
This brief animation illustrates the chain reaction that occurs when hydrogen and chlorine gases react.
Sulfur is burned in a deflagrating spoon in a flask, forming sulfur dioxide in the synthesis reaction.
The reaction of magnesium with carbon dioxide (dry ice) is demonstrated. Despite the absence of air, the magnesium continues to glow.
A piece of copper metal is heated in a flame and oxidized to black copper oxide by air. The oxidized copper is reduced when placed in a hydrogen atmosphere. When removed from the hydrogen atmosphere, the metal is again oxidized.