Molecule Kitchen
Atoms join up to make everything around you. Put atoms in the pot and see what you can make: there are 54 molecules to find.
Empty pot
Tap atoms on the shelf to put them in the pot.
What will you cook?
Try two hydrogens and one oxygen. Or pick a clue below and work out which atoms it needs. The number after an atom says how many: CO₂ is one carbon and two oxygens.
Found 0 of 54
- You drink it every day. 3 atoms
- You breathe it in. 2 atoms
- You breathe it out. 3 atoms
- Most of the air is this. 2 atoms
- The lightest gas of all. 2 atoms
- A layer of it, high in the sky, shields us from the Sun. 3 atoms
- You sprinkle it on your food. 2 atoms
- Sand, and the glass made from it. 3 atoms
- Your stomach makes it. 2 atoms
- Soap is made with it. 3 atoms
- The white ash left when magnesium burns. 2 atoms
- Water with one extra oxygen. It bleaches hair. 4 atoms
- A poison gas made when fuel burns without enough air. 2 atoms
- A salt that isn’t table salt, and a fertilizer. 2 atoms
- Baked limestone that gets hot when you add water. 2 atoms
- The sharp smell of a match that has just been struck. 3 atoms
- It smells of rotten eggs. 3 atoms
- A poisonous gas that keeps swimming pools clean. 2 atoms
Molecules you find are remembered in this browser.