Molecular lab

Beaker

Drop a compound in water and watch whether it dissolves, splits into ions, or both.

Pure water — tap a compound to drop it in

Solvent

Pure water

A few ions from water itself are too rare to draw — about one molecule in ten million is split. The bulb is off and the pH sits at 7. This view is magnified: a real drop holds astronomically more particles than the ones you can follow here.

Conductivity

Does not conduct

Dark. Whole molecules and pure water do not carry a current.

pH

7.0Neutral

0 acid14 base

An illustrative pH from the ions on screen, not a lab measurement.

In the water

Only water molecules so far.

Under the lens

Tap any particle in the beaker to see what it is.

Na
Cl
O
H
C
N