Making Monster Dry Ice Super Bubbles

[craetacus]

This is a video we made last week with our kids - Making Monster Dry Ice Super Bubbles. Every week we are trying to create a new video:

 

Let me know what you think!

 

John Mark

[Buffy]

Neato!

 

Of course--except for those of you who foolishly ignore all disclaimers--touching dry ice directly will burn your hands, so some care needs to be exercised with this experiment...

 

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers, :phones:

Buffy

[CraigD]

Let me know what you think!

 

John Mark

Cool video! Adding a little dishwashing soap sure changes the effect.

 

And welcome to hypography, John :) Please feel free to start a topic in the introductions forum to tell us something about yourself.

 

Of course--except for those of you who foolishly ignore all disclaimers--touching dry ice directly will burn your hands, so some care needs to be exercised with this experiment...

Ah, c’mon Buffy - kid’s learn best by experience though moderate foolishness: let ‘em touch some CO₂ ice, and they’ll lean that it can “burn” – actually freeze, but the blistering and sloughing off dead skin for days effect is similar to a burn, itself an educational experience.

 

There was once a common device, now little known now that good roads and fast delivery services make it cheaper and easier to ship whatever size block of CO₂ dry ice we need, for making small amount of dry ice for lab and medical needs. It consisting of a collar with a pin and a net that attached to the nozzle of a small cylinder of CO₂. When the pin pierced the cylinders cap, the expanding gass it dropped below freezing, and little chunks of dry ice were caught in the net. I learned the best (AKA the hard) way about heeding the warning in instructions the first time I used one of these with the little metal cylinder resting in the palm of my hand, but it did leave me with a lasting intuitive feel for the gas laws. ;)

[Buffy]

Ah, c’mon Buffy - kid’s learn best by experience though moderate foolishness: let ‘em touch some CO₂ ice, and they’ll lean that it can “burn” – actually freeze, but the blistering and sloughing off dead skin for days effect is similar to a burn, itself an educational experience.

 

Oh I'm all for letting kids hurt themselves to learn what hurts, but in the wrong location it can be a little more than minor if enough male rough-housing is applied... :evil:

 

 

Break your neck, put somebody's eye out....PNEUMONIA, :phones:

Buffy

[Moontanman]

Oh yeah, All Hollows Eve this thing will be in my yard.... I wonder if glycerin would have the bubbles bigger?