This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Mercury Explosions in the Parking Lot
Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM
As Patrick said, today's been a completely normal day at the Mercury.
Matt Staab, chemistry teacher at Cleveland High School, brought his "Explosives 'Kit'" to show us a few DIY (and a few don't try 'em at home) fire balls and bangs and volcanic diet coke tricks.
These are elemental salts, on fire, producing a rainbow of colors:
Oooo, pretty. Staab gave me some notes, and the ones for this experiment say:
quantum mechanics. e- drops back to lower energy light emitted (photon/wave)
Check out more explosions, plus a few tips on where to procure the necessary ingredients for "exploding acetylene balloons," in the July 3 issue!
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