How to make a Lava lamp with Zion and Landen

Hello again, welcome to Zionce. Today we will be making a fizzing lava lamp. It does not light up but it is still a cool experiment. Once again my best friend Landen will be joining us today.

Here is what you will need:

• A clean large plastic clear bottle
• 3/4 cup of water
• Vegetable oil 
• Fizzing tablets (such as  Alka Seltzer)
• Food coloring
• Funnel or measuring cup

Instructions:

 Step 1: Pour water into the bottle. (Pouring tip: Use funnel or measuring cup to pour liquids)
🚰(We forgot to take a picture of the water)
Step 2: Pour vegetable oil into the bottle until it is nearly completely full.



Step 3: Wait until the oil and water have separated
Step 4: Add about a dozen drops of food coloring


Step 5: break the fizzing tablet into smaller pieces (3 to 4)
Results: If you have done Step 1-5  than your result should be that the tablet is dissolving and the water is fizzing.
Step 6: If you want you can add more tablets when the water stops fizzing.

Fun tip: you can put a light (Any kind) under it and it will start to glow a bit.


How it works:
When you add the fizzing tablet to the lava lamp the tablet releases tiny bits of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is air, and when the air is under water it creates bubbles. The reason the tablet fizzes like this is because it contains citric acid and baking soda. Both of these things react with the water to form sodium citrate and carbon dioxide gas, these are the bubbles that you are seeing in your lava lamp.

Feel free to experiment on your lava lamp. For example, maybe you can try adding soap.
Anyway, thank you for joining Me and Landen for this great experiment. See you on the next experiment.

The Matter of Root Beer Floats!

     The Matter of Root Beer Floats

     Hi, I'm Zion🤓 today we will be making root beer floats and learning about matter. Join me as we experiment with these delicious treats.

Here is what you will need

• A bottle of Root Beer
• A glass
• Ice cream (It doesn't matter what flavor but for the best result I would recommend vanilla)
• An ice cream scooper (Or a spoon)

How to make it

Step 1:

First, you will need to pour the Root Beer into the cup until the glass is half full.

Fun fact: Notice how all the tiny bubbles are coming out of the Root Beer. That happens because of the carbon dioxide inside the root beer. This is also why you here a sizzling sound when you open a bottle of soda, the carbon dioxide takes up so much of the air in the can that it goes inside the soda and when you pour all the carbon dioxide is released into the air again resulting in bubbles. 

Step 2:

Then, you will need to put one scoop of ice cream into the glass.

Step 3:

Watch the glass.

Science:

If you did this all correctly you should end up with a strange foamy substance rising from the root beer. Like I said before the carbon dioxide is from the Root Beer into bubbles, however, when you add the ice cream, the carbon dioxide helps take out the air bubbles in the ice cream making the foam on top of your Root Beer. Another thing about Root Beer floats that is scientific is that it has 3 states of matter: solid liquid and gas. The solid is the ice cream because it has a definite shape and volume, the liquid is the root beer because it doesn't have a definite shape because it takes the shape of its container, but it does have a definite volume, and finally the gas is the foamy substance at the top of the Root Beer float because it doesn't a definite shape or volume. 

Step 4:

When you are done watching the experiment feel free to drink it.  

                                                               
                            

Also if you don't like root beer or root beer floats don't feel bad because I don't like them either, see↓.

Anyway, thanks for watching and I hope to see you in the next experiment. Bye!

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