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« on: January 11, 2008, 09:22:24 am » |
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Strictly speaking a number of parallel reactions, still not quite understood. I wonder how long it goes on for?
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 04:48:04 pm » |
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I wonder how long it goes on for?
About a dozen times (10 - 12 times) depending on the formulation used, until the solution ends up fixed as a dark blue / purple, and smells of iodine.  SS |
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 06:32:27 pm » |
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neat! what is in the two solutions?
Malonic acid, potassium iodate, hydrogen peroxide, manganese sulfate and starch. See Briggs-Rauscher Reaction. |
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akumabito
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2008, 06:47:44 pm » |
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That's... odd.
Behold! The invisibility potion!
*yet to be perfected*
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2008, 07:48:13 pm » |
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That would look great standing in the background in a mad scientists lab.
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2008, 07:51:40 pm » |
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You could fake something vaguely like it with a colour changing LEDs under a lab flask with something murky in it.
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akumabito
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2008, 08:01:00 pm » |
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Yeah, but the point sorta is that it turns perfectly clear as well..
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2008, 08:54:33 pm » |
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So what does the machine underneath it do?
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2008, 10:06:25 pm » |
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So what does the machine underneath it do?
hmmm, the reaction is caused by oscillation, so i guess the machine emits some kind of waves/vibrations... i guess it looks vaguely like a vibrating table used in labs/dentists... |
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2008, 10:25:43 pm » |
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So what does the machine underneath it do?
It's a mixer, it spins the little white magnet you can see in the bottom of the flask. |
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Tread by thread, primmed and pressed, yard by yard, never stressed,
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« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2008, 10:26:53 pm » |
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So this is essentially like when you put potassium permanganate into something, to find the point of saturation? Except that it ocassionally stops stirring?
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« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2008, 11:04:10 pm » |
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The chemicals in it react to form the chemicals that form the second stage of the reactoin, which react to form the third stage, which react to form the first stage again....
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Hey, it's not my fault that science is really combustible.
PM me about adding a thread to the OT archive! _|¯¯|_ r[]_[] |
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« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2008, 02:49:38 am » |
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My dad showed me this when I was a kid.
The joys of growing up the child of a chemical engineer, quality time meant "want to blow something up?"
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« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2008, 04:23:58 am » |
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Saw it on BoingBoing earlier today. Facinating stuff.
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« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2008, 06:45:19 am » |
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I must thank you, after watching that I looked up other interesting reactions. I was in tears with laughter after finding this gem.
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« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2008, 06:49:19 am » |
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Daaaaaaaaamn! Listen to it suffer! |
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« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2008, 06:49:52 am » |
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Science, what´s not to love?
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« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2008, 07:05:55 am » |
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When it comes to things like this, I like to clench my fist, strike a pose and yell out loud in my most dramatic mad scientist voice, "SCIENCE!"
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« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2008, 08:16:37 am » |
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I remember doing this in my high school chemistry class! Of course I have a terrible memory, it has been a few years and I couldn't remember what it was we'd mixed or anything, just that it went from yellow to purple and back. When I tried to explain it to my beau a few months ago he thought I was absolutely mad. Now I have proof that I'm not.
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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2008, 11:49:40 pm » |
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I'm still waiting for the water to wine in less than 6 months.
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