Top 10 amazing laboratory reactions
1. Briggs-Rauscher reaction
2. Reaction of Sodium & Chlorine
3. Landolt reaction
4. Magnetic Levitation
5. Colour changing dry ice
6. Supercooling
7. Superheating
8. Ship floating on heavy gas
9. Viscosity
10. Superabsorbent polymer
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April 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Wow no way dude, too funny!
RT
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April 8th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
The Briggs-Rauscher is my favorite! I never new about that one — very awesome!
Thanks for posting.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Fantastic reactions. Very cool science (except for the superheating of course)
April 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am
number 6 is actually quite hot to the touch. =]
April 11th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
you forgot the non-newtonian fluid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw
April 13th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Why is the “superheating” not science? “A portion of the water in the cup is becoming superheated — the liquid temperature is actually slightly above the boiling point, where it would normally form a gas. In this case, the boiling is hindered by a lack of nucleation sites needed to form the bubbles . . . I imagine that by keeping the cup still and microwaving for a long time, one could blow the entire contents of the cup into the interior of the microwave as soon as you introduced any nucleation sites. It is this sometimes explosive rate of steam production that means you should take great care when using a microwave oven.”
April 13th, 2009 at 4:10 am
How is the superheating not science? “A portion of the water in the cup is becoming superheated — the liquid temperature is actually slightly above the boiling point, where it would normally form a gas. In this case, the boiling is hindered by a lack of nucleation sites needed to form the bubbles . . . I imagine that by keeping the cup still and microwaving for a long time, one could blow the entire contents of the cup into the interior of the microwave as soon as you introduced any nucleation sites. It is this sometimes explosive rate of steam production that means you should take great care when using a microwave oven.”
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Very Interesting experiments I learned something new here