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.
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