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Self Inflating Balloon: Plastic Chemistry - Making Slime

This document provides instructions for three simple science experiments involving physical concepts: making slime, self-inflating balloons, and creating a rainbow in a glass. The slime experiment demonstrates non-Newtonian fluids by mixing borax solution and glue. Yeast powers the self-inflating balloon by consuming sugar and releasing carbon dioxide gas. Carefully layering colored sugar solutions of varying densities produces a rainbow effect in a glass through density differences.

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Self Inflating Balloon: Plastic Chemistry - Making Slime

This document provides instructions for three simple science experiments involving physical concepts: making slime, self-inflating balloons, and creating a rainbow in a glass. The slime experiment demonstrates non-Newtonian fluids by mixing borax solution and glue. Yeast powers the self-inflating balloon by consuming sugar and releasing carbon dioxide gas. Carefully layering colored sugar solutions of varying densities produces a rainbow effect in a glass through density differences.

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Plastic Chemistry - Making Slime

Equipment:

2 Plastic cups

2 Plastic Spoons

Food colouring - pick your favourite colour

Borax Powder (usually found next to laundry detergent)

PVA Glue

Water

What to do:

1. Mix a tablespoon of borax into around 75ml of water in the first cup. Stir until it dissolves (this
may take a while)
2. Mix a tablespoon of PVA glue with two tablespoons of water. Add some drops of food colouring.
Stir well until well mixed.
3. Add one tablespoon of the borax solution to the glue mixture. Stir well and see the mixture turn to
slime.
4. Leave the slime for 30seconds and then pick it up!

Borax causes cross-links between the long strands of the PVA. This prevents the strands from sliding over
each other making this an example of a Non-Newtonian Fluid.

Play about with the ratios of the ingredients to make different types of slime - stretchy, springy, bouncy
and wet slimes can all be made by experimenting with how much borax you add.

Self Inflating Balloon


Combine Biology and Physics to blow up a balloon with the power of yeast! You will need:

A used washed fizzy drinks bottle (lid not required)

Latex balloon (thinner the better)

Elastic band

Measuring Jug

Yeast

Sugar

Water

What to Do: Place 2 teaspoons of yeast, 1 teaspoon of sugar and one cup of water into the bottle. Put the
balloon over the top of the bottle and secure with the elastic band. Leave, but keep an eye on it

Yeast is actually a micro-organism. The yeast is 'eating' the sugar and respiring. A product of respiration
is Carbon Dioxide, which slowly fills up the balloon.

Experiment with different temperatures, different types of sugar, different amounts of sugar to see how
quickly you can blow up the balloon.

Rainbow in a Glass
Density is anything but dense - take advantage of this physical concept by making a rainbow in a glass.
You will need:

5 glasses

Sugar

Water

Different coloured food colouring

Tablespoon

Epic patience and a steady hand - this will take some practice!

What to Do: Line up the glasses and put 3 tablespoons of water into the first four glasses. Add one
tablespoon of sugar to glass one, two to glass two, three to glass three, four to glass four. Stir thoroughly
to dissolve the sugar. Now add a different colour foodcolouring to each glass. Pour 1/4 of glass four into
glass five. That was the easy bit.

This is the tricky bit. You must pour the next layer (glass three) so gently that it doesn't mix with the first
layer. You can put a teaspoon just above the first layer and pour the mixture gently over the back of the
spoon to minimise splash. The more slowly you do this, the better the results. When you have filled the
glass to about the same width as the last layer, repeat with glass two, and then with glass one. If you have
done this right you should get something like the picture.
COMPILATION
OF
ACTIVITIES
IN
PHYSICAL SCIENCE

SUBMITTED BY: JUSTINE CLAIRE VELASQUEZ


GR.11-BLESSED JORDAN OF SAXONY

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