Our finally dry chromatography experiment. This is how the dye in brown m &m's separates into individual colors.
Alex observed that Now and Laters felt hard enough to be bricks. So I suggested he build something with them. At first he said he was building a robot but couldn't get the tape to hold them like he wanted so he changed to building a house. Unfortunately we ran out of candy before the construction was complete! (Maya is "helping")
In the microwave we thought twizzlers would melt. But instead it blistered with a very fun little popping sound starting at about 40 sec. The next 40 sec brought more blistering and little pops. Unfortunately after that the twizzlers still did not melt, it started burning from the inside creating a really nasty smell!
Alex's lab journal to record his findings.At one point in our experiments yesterday Alex looked at me and said "Mom, a lot of this candy is actually really, really gross when you see kind of what it's made of." I would agree! It was really gross how much of it is made primarily of color and wax!
1 comment:
So glad you enjoyed experiments. Congratulations on mastering chromatography and the density rainbow--they're the trickiest ones.
(By the way, your Twizzler won't melt completely because it contains other ingredients like flour.)
I share Alex's reaction to the candy--it's startling to realize what it's really made of. Color, oil--and don't forget sugar!
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