Zionce: 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.