Food Experiments

Why Does Bubble Bath Change Colour

We were asked why it is that Mr Matey bubble bath changes colour when you mix it with water. We did an experiment to find out, and you could find out too!

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Floating a Needle

Float steel on water with nothing more sophisticated than a piece of toilet paper.

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Raising Raisins

Why do raisins always rise to the top of a box of muesli?

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Coke Can Eruption

Does tapping the top of a can keep you safe from a fizz eruption?

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Magnetic Cereal

Find out about one of the things that make up your breakfast cereal using a magnet.

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Jamming Rice

Find out how to pick up a jar of rice without touching the jar, and what it has to do with holes in the road.

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Red Cabbage Litmus

Make some cabbage juice and find out it's unexpectedly colourful properties.

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How to tell if your egg is raw

Find out whether your egg is raw or not without having to break it open.

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Make an Egg Stand on End.

Could you make an egg lift up on it's end and stay there? Find out how in this experiment.

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Making a Mess with Milk

Make something really quite unpleasant out of milk and find out what it has to do with cheese.

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Racing Jam Jars

Race Jam Jars down a slope and find out that all things don't allways fall at the same speed.

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Lemonade Volcano

You may have heard about the Mentos and Coke experiment, find out how to make an erruption with a drinks bottle, and what it has to do with volcanoes.

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Freezing lemonade bottles

In this cool experiment you can freeze a bottle of lemonade in front of your eyes.

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Seeing the invisible

Carbon Dioxide is an invisible gas that amongst other things we breath out. In this experiment you can see it.

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Strange Glows from Sugar

How to make strange unearthly glows by torturing sugar cubes...

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