![]() ![]() Then you’re going to wet the ball with a lighter fluid like Naphtha or a heater fuel like Kerosene.įor this experiment, you’ll need 15 highlighter markers. Roll that piece of fabric tightly up, thread a needle into it, and sew it tightly into a ball. To do so, cut a two- to six-inch piece of fabric from a material that won’t catch fire at low temperatures, like cotton or wool. ![]() That said, the whole gimmick behind this thing is to hold fire in your bare hand. The whole idea is that you can hold the fireball you’re about to create, but let’s be real: How certain are you that you won’t mess up? Be extra safe the first time you try this by wearing flame retardant gloves and perform the whole experiment away from flammable materials. Make Handheld Fireballsįirst of all, be careful with this experiment. ![]() That’s because this mixture is a suspension of two states of matter - when pressure is applied it acts like a solid, and when that pressure is released it flows like a liquid. If you mess with it and constantly roll the magic mud, you’ll find that it acts and feels a lot like pizza dough. Because tonic water contains quinine, and quinine becomes fluorescent under black light, your magic mud also turns fluorescent. This is where the gin and tonic come in: Get the tonic and pour it onto your crumbly powder to turn the potato gunk into magic mud. Let that sit around for two days it’ll turn into a white powder. Pour out the water so you only have the white layer, flush it out with some clean water, and then dump out that water so you only have your goop. That’s when you’ll notice the water has separated into normal looking water and a white layer. The water is what you want - take that and let it sit for about ten minutes. You’re going to then stir them around for a few minutes before straining the potato bits from the water. Slide those bits into a large mixing bowl and then use enough hot water to cover them completely. Chop the potatoes into the smallest pieces possible with either your food processor or a knife. Get to business - these directions are courtesy of YouTuber Grant Thompson. If so, good for you now you can do it while drinking a gin and tonic.įor this experiment, you’ll need potatoes, tonic water, a strainer, a food processor, and two big bowls (if you don’t have potatoes you can also use corn starch). It’s very likely that you made magic mud in second grade. Wha la the drastic temperature change will cause the alcohol vapor and air molecules to stick together, creating yourself a cloud in a bottle. ![]() Now is when the magic happens: Slowly pump four or five times, then pull the plug out. Take that cork attached valve, and fit it into the top of the bottle. Grab your wine cork, drill a hole down its middle, and attach it to your bike pump’s valve (that’s the part you put in the tire) - this is now your plug. Pour the rubbing alcohol into the plastic bottle and swirl it around until the entire inside is covered. These instructions come from the helpful YouTube show, Household Hacker. Make your own pseudo-cloud at home using a bike pump, rubbing alcohol, plastic bottle, and wine cork. Make a Cloud in a BottleĬlouds: You know them as puffs of tiny water vapors and ice crystals in the sky and the things sometimes you think look like animals. Perform at your own caution, and don’t sue us if you screw up. Here are six experiments to try out, some of which involve alcohol and some of which can be done while simultaneously consuming alcohol. Why leave the joy of basic science experiments to children and President Obama? Be the scientist you know yourself to be, regardless of whether you remember the periodic table or not. That’s a shame, because while you head to the farmer’s market or carefully consider what bar to spend your paycheck on, you could be spending less than $20 holding your own science fair at home. Unless you’re gainfully employed as a scientist, you probably haven’t done much science since high school other than work on your own reproductive biology. ![]()
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