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Monday 6 January 2014

NITROGEN FUN!


That Ice-cream excitement!


The first experiment of the science fair was based on liquid nitrogen. Team members Jaime, Isabella and Kyle decided to solidify melted ice cream by adding liquid nitrogen to it. Although the crowd didn’t seem excited to see ice cream becoming semi- solid again, they went howling with excitement when the group members announced that they would distribute the ice cream to the audience.
 
 Once the experiment had begun, Isabella and Jaime were mixing the ice cream with the liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen came with abundant cold smoke with which the audience seemed to play with.
 
 The audience went crazy when the team members started to give out the successfully restored ice cream. The audience went desperate for the ice cream like they would for a loaf of bread during extreme poverty.
 
 Group member Kyle thought that the experiment was successful, therefore he said, “Yes it was successful, but I felt nervous because I was absent the day we tested it out”. The group members should feel at ease since there was absolutely nothing disappointing in the experiment!
 

Bottle Cap Explosion!

 
This was without question; the most anticipating experimented of the whole liquid nitrogen group. The name itself made the audience inquisitive about the experiment.
 
When group member Kyle said that there would be an explosion, it is quite obvious how excited the crowd was. The group had a plastic bucket with warm water which was covered with Styrofoam. The Styrofoam had assorted bottle caps on it.
 
Team member Jaime poured in the liquid nitrogen into a plastic bottle and then tightly closed it. The process again, gave out a lot of smoke which made the crowd excited. Once, the plastic bottle was placed under the Styrofoam and into the bucket, the team members made a run for it.
 
This made the audience to inevitably start the countdown till the blast in their heads. Once the bottle in the bucket started vibrating, it started to shake the Styrofoam with the assorted bottle caps. Within the blink of an eye, the blast happened with a BOOM! The assorted bottle caps flew in every direction while the water spilled everywhere as well. The crowd was screaming with excitement and looked certainly pleased with the spilling of the water along with the blasting of the bottle caps (which were for a second like shotgun bullets).
 
 
Team member Jaime said, “It was successful and I felt happy because when it exploded all the people started shouting and got excited.” Well we all have to admit, the experiment was undoubtedly successful!