Five of our favourite Christmas chemistrees from 2023

Every year chemists at schools and universities around the world take part in what has become a Christmas tradition to brighten up classrooms and labs. The creation of Christmas trees made out of chemical apparatus, also known as chemistrees. We’ve picked out five of our favourite creations this year

First up Emmanuelle Ruelle and her students in France have created a colourful rainbow chemistree and if you look closely the students have also decorated it with silver-mirrored test tubes.