Preview

Science Fair

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
318 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Science Fair
Fill the bottle 3/4 full with vegetable oil.
Put some water

2.Add water to the remainder of the bottle, almost to the top but without it overflowing.

3.Add 10 drops of food coloring, to make the solution appear fairly dark.

4.Cut the Alka-Seltzer into 8 pieces.

5.Drop one of the tiny pieces into the oil and water mixture.

6.The mixture will start to bubble.

7.Wait until the bubbling stops and add another piece of Alka-Seltzer.

8.Continue until there is no more Alka-Seltzer, and the bubbling has completely stopped.

9.Screw on the cap of the soda bottle.

10.Tip the bottle back and forth and watch the wave appear.

The reason this homemade lava lamp works is because the tiny droplets of liquid join together to make one big lava like blob. Place a flashlight with a bright beam under the bottle to illuminate the bubbles for maximum visual effect.

Soda bottle with cap Vegetable oil 
Food coloring any color 
Alka -seltzer A cup or funnel
Paper
Pencil Microwave
Water

lamp lit from the bottom and containing a soft gel that moves and grows as the light heats it; also called lava light
I chose to my topic because I wanted to know a better way to make a lava lamp without having to buy one . With house hold materials you can do lots of neat things. Another reason I chose it because I wanted to make it look better if you have different temperatures of water.

Works Cited
"Blobs in a Bottle, The World 's Easiest Lava Lamp - Science Bob." Science Experiments, Videos, and Science Fair Ideas at Sciencebob.com. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/lavalamp.php.

"HowStuffWorks "How Does a Lava Lamp Work?"" HowStuffWorks "Science" Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .

"HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE REVIEW." Sportscience. Web. 09 Nov. 2011.



Cited: "Blobs in a Bottle, The World 's Easiest Lava Lamp - Science Bob." Science Experiments, Videos, and Science Fair Ideas at Sciencebob.com. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/lavalamp.php. "HowStuffWorks "How Does a Lava Lamp Work?"" HowStuffWorks "Science" Web. 09 Nov. 2011. . "HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE REVIEW." Sportscience. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Lava Experiment

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Our project is making a lava lamp in a bottle. My group members are Erik Duarte, Isaac Sanchez, Kenneth Loya, and Nick Mahan. Our question was can you make a lava lamp out of household items. Our hypothesis was you can if you find the right items. We were right you can if you put vegetable oil on top of water and then put the food coloring in and the ad Alka-Seltzer. Our background info is that vegetable oil is used to cook, water you used to drink and stay alive, food coloring is used to make food colorful, Alka-Seltzer it is used to make head aches go away if you put it in water and wait for I to dissolve. We put vegetable oil on top of water. Then we put the food coloring on top of the vegetable oil. Then we put the Alka-Seltzer in it. When it went in there it pushed the food coloring up into the vegetable witch made it go slow so it made bulbs of food coloring so it looked like a lava lamp. Why did this happen because, well the Alka-Seltzer reacted with the water naturally so the fizz pushed the food coloring up. So when it went up it ran into the vegetable oil witch is thick so it made it go into bubbles and if you have ever watched a lava lamp the lava forms into bubbles. So that’s why we call it a lava lamp inside of bottle. The conclusion is that you can make lava lamp household items if you use Alka-Seltzer, water, food coloring, and vegetable oil. So if you want to try just do what we did. That is our experiment. Why this happened because the Alka-seltzer had a chemical reaction beacuse of some powder on the outside of the alka-seltzer so the bubbles carried the food coloring up to the top of the bottle…

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Science Fair

    • 673 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I’m doing my science project on which food wrapping will prevent freezer burn the best aluminum foil, plastic bags, or freezer paper. This experiment seemed interesting to me because a lot of people get freezer burn on their foods. My mother also gets freezer burn on her foods a lot and she always tries different food wrappings but none of them seem to work. This project will benefit people from getting freezer burn on their food, and so they will know which wrapping is the worse to use and the one that is less preventable.…

    • 673 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Plate tectonics essay

    • 1162 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The lava here has a low viscosity, it very hot (1200 C) and has a low silica content.…

    • 1162 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Science Fair

    • 1491 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Batteries come in many shapes and sizes. Some are no larger than a pill while others are heavy and huge size, but most batteries have one thing in common. They store chemical energy and change it into electrical energy. The cell is the basic unit producing electricity. A battery has 2 or more cells, but people often use the world battery when talking about a single cell, too, like a dry cell. One of the most popular batteries that have a cell is a dime sized battery which we use for watches. Cells force electrons to flow along conductors.(DK Science 150).…

    • 1491 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    When lava that is in cinder cone is highly charged with gas bubbles erupts from a vent under pressure, it tends to shoot straight up into the air.…

    • 963 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Water and Corn Syrup

    • 697 Words
    • 3 Pages

    1. First, make your bubble solutions, and store them in clearly labeled glass mason jars. Use one jar for each different solution and label with the formula using a permanent marker. Here are three basic solutions to try, but notice that the total volume of the…

    • 697 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    How to Make an Egg Bounce

    • 937 Words
    • 4 Pages

    A raw or hardboiled egg can be used. The density of an egg will change depending on the experiment chosen. For instance when using vinegar in an…

    • 937 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    8. Open the buret stopcock to allow any air bubbles to escape from the tip. Close the stopcock when the liquid level is between 0 and 10- mL…

    • 2054 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    * Next, I added baking soda to vinegar. This caused a quick and energetic reaction! The gas from the reaction I pumped into some Limewater, which caused it to bubble and turn cloudy…

    • 480 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Enzyme Lab Report

    • 1060 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Problem: How can we demonstrate how enzymes work? What happens if we alter the environment of an enzyme?…

    • 1060 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    2. Place both the bottle with water and the cap containing the Alka Seltzeron the beam…

    • 1072 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Brown J, Duan J, Li A, Liu N, Moo-Young J,Stone S, Halpin M, 2012, ‘Red and Green Slime Show Properties of Light and More: An Introduction to Slime’, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Research in Chemistry Class, viewed 1st October 2012, <http://www.carolina.com/category/teacher+resources/classroom+activities/an+introduction+to+slime.do>www.carolina.com…

    • 1564 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Science Fair

    • 2586 Words
    • 11 Pages

    On a daily basis, humans are surrounded by noise and unable to avoid its ubiquitous presence. This poses a major problem for teenage garage bands, whose parental units do not approve of ear piercing feedback and novice percussionists. Although there is no guaranteed solution to the cacophony, sound absorbing material acts as a “noise blanket” to reduce sound to a more tolerable level. The objective of our experiment is to determine if sound absorption by foam and related materials changes with the frequency of sound.…

    • 2586 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Science Fair

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The purpose for doing this Science Fair project is to figure out which soil will grass grow in the fastest, Potting soil, Organic soil, Garden soil, or Lawn soil.…

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    lava lamp

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The lava lamp is used as a visual attractiveness on houses, parties, streets and everywhere that makes people impress. You can learn how to make a homemade lava lamp with your kids right in your home.…

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics