[Ken] figured out how to get around the $500 price tag of a commercial unit by building this DIY melting point test apparatus. In this image he’s using a thermocouple to monitor the temperature ...

A common technique in organic chemistry is to determine the melting point of a specimen. While commercial options exist, [kymyst] decided to build one with similar (or better) functionality ...

To then discover the melting point of the newly formed acetaldehyde ... performed by Threlfall's team and other recent efforts, failed to find a single difference between acetaldehyde ...

Chocolate melts at about 35°C. We say that chocolate has a higher melting point than ice. Solids and liquids can be changed from one state to another by heating or cooling. Heat melts a solid and ...