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    Sodium polyacrylate is a super-absorbent polymer that can be used to create fake snow. It is a white powder that can absorb 300 times its own weight in water. When dry, the polymer chains are coiled up, but when wet the molecules dissociate into charged ions that repel each other, causing the polymer to expand and take on a snow-like appearance.

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    Sodium polyacrylate is a super-absorbent polymer that can be used to create fake snow. It is a white powder that can absorb 300 times its own weight in water. When dry, the polymer chains are coiled up, but when wet the molecules dissociate into charged ions that repel each other, causing the polymer to expand and take on a snow-like appearance.

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    Sodium polyacrylate is a super-absorbent polymer that can be used to create fake snow. It is a white powder that can absorb 300 times its own weight in water. When dry, the polymer chains are coiled up, but when wet the molecules dissociate into charged ions that repel each other, causing the polymer to expand and take on a snow-like appearance.

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    Sodium polyacrylate is a super-absorbent polymer that can be used to create fake snow. It is a white powder that can absorb 300 times its own weight in water. When dry, the polymer chains are coiled up, but when wet the molecules dissociate into charged ions that repel each other, causing the polymer to expand and take on a snow-like appearance.

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    CHEMISTRY ADVENT 2016

    10

    MAKING FAKE SNOW


    O

    Na

    Carbon

    n
    SODIUM POLYACRYLATE

    Oxygen

    Na

    Sodium

    Hydrogens on carbon
    atoms implied; each
    carbon has 4 bonds.

    Sodium polyacrylate is a super-absorbant polymer that


    can be used to create fake snow. It is a white powder
    which can absorb 300 times its own weight in water.

    When dry, the chains of


    the polymer are coiled up.

    WITHOUT WATER

    WITH WATER

    When wet, the polymer


    molecules dissociate
    into negatively charged
    carboxylate ions and
    sodium ions. The negative
    charges repel each other,
    and the polymer expands.

    COMPOUND INTEREST 2016 - WWW.COMPOUNDCHEM.COM | @COMPOUNDCHEM


    Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.

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