What you'll need:
- Water
- A clear plastic bottle
- Vegetable oil
- Food coloring
- Alka-Seltzer (or other tablets that fizz)
Instructions:
- Pour water into the plastic bottle until it is around
one quarter full (you might want to use a funnel when filling the bottle
so you don't spill anything).
- Pour in vegetable oil until the bottle is nearly full.
- Wait until the oil and water have separated.
- Add around a dozen drops of food coloring to the bottle
(choose any color you like).
- Watch as the food coloring falls through the oil and
mixes with the water.
- Cut an Alka-Seltzer tablet into smaller pieces (around
5 or 6) and drop one of them into the bottle, things should start getting
a little crazy, just like a real lava lamp!
- When the bubbling stops, add another piece of
Alka-Seltzer and enjoy the show!
What's happening?
If you've tried our oil and water experiment you'll
know that the two don't mix very well. The oil and water you added to the
bottle separate from each other, with oil on top because it has a lower density
than water. The food coloring falls through the oil and mixes with the water at
the bottom. The piece of Alka-Seltzer tablet you drop in after releases small
bubbles of carbon dioxide gas that rise to the top and take some of the colored
water along for the ride. The gas escapes when it reaches the top and the
colored water falls back down. The reason Alka-Seltzer fizzes in such a way is
because it contains citric acid and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), the two
react with water to form sodium citrate and carbon dioxide gas (those are the
bubbles that carry the colored water to the top of the bottle).
Adding more Alka-Seltzer
to the bottle keeps the reaction going so you can enjoy your funky lava lamp
for longer. If you want to show someone later you can simply screw on a bottle
cap and add more Alka-Seltzer when you need to. When you've finished all your
Alka-Seltzer, you can take the experiment a step further by tightly screwing on
a bottle cap and tipping the bottle back and forth, what happens then?
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO TO SEE IN ACTION!
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