Have you ever turned a liquid into a solid just by tapping on it?

In this experiment you

make just such a liquid.
For this experiment you will need:
corn starch (about cup, or 60 cm
3
)
water (about cup, or 60 cm3)
a bowl for mixing
newspaper
Place a sheet of newspaper flat on a table. Put the mixing bowl in the middle of the
newspaper. Add cup of dry cornstarch to the bowl. Add about 1/8 cup (2
tablespoons, or 30 cm
3
) of water to the corn starch and stir slowly. Add water slowly
to the mixture, with stirring, until all of the powder is wet.
Continue to add water until the cornstarch acts like a liquid when you stir it slowly.
When you tap on the liquid with your finger, it shouldn't splash, but rather will
become hard. If your mixture is too liquid, add more cornstarch. Your goal is to create
a mixture that feels like a stiff liquid when you stir it slowly, but feels like a solid
when you tap on it with your finger or a spoon.
Scoop the cornstarch mixture into the palm of your hand, then slowly work it into a
ball. As long as you keep pressure on it by rubbing it between your hands, it stays
solid. Stop rubbing, and it melts into a puddle in your palm. Can you think of other
tests you can do with it?
Why does the cornstarch mixture behave like this?
Think of a busy sidewalk. The easiest way to get through a crowd of people is to
move slowly and find a path between people. If you just took a running start and
headed straight for the crowd of people, you would quickly slam into someone and
you wouldn't get very far. This is similar to what happens in the cornstarch mixture.
The solid cornstarch acts like a crowd of people. Pressing your finger slowly into the
mixture allows the cornstarch to move out of the way, but tapping the mixture quickly
doesn't allow the solid cornstarch particles to slide past each other and out of the way
of your finger.
We use the term viscosity to describe the resistance of a liquid to flow. Water,
which has a low viscosity, flows easily. Honey, at room temperature, has a higher
viscosity and flows more slowly than water. But if you warm honey up, its viscosity
drops, and it flows more easily. Most fluids behave like water and honey, in that their
viscosity depends only on temperature. We call such fluids Newtonian, since their
behavior was first described by Isaac Newton (when he wasnt discovering the laws of
gravity or developing the calculus). The cornstarch mixture you made is called non-
Newtonian since its viscosity also depends on the force applied to the liquid or how
fast an object is moving through the liquid.
Other examples of non-Newtonian fluids include ketchup, silly putty, and quicksand.
Quicksand is like the cornstarch mixture: if you struggle to escape quicksand, you
apply pressure to it and it becomes hard, making it more difficult to escape. The
recommended way to escape quicksand is to slowly move toward solid ground; you
might also lie down on it, thus distributing your weight over a wider area and reducing
the pressure. Ketchup is the opposite: its viscosity decreases under pressure. Thats
why shaking a bottle of ketchup makes it easier to pour.
Disposal: First dilute the cornstarch mixture with plenty of water before pouring it
down the drain. Why? What do think would happen to the semi-solid, semi-liquid
form that you prepared if pressure were applied to it by other water in the drain? Yes
a plugged drain.













Warna warni color.
A flat tray (like a cookie baking tray)
Food coloring (at least 3 different colors)
Whole milk - low fat milk will not work for this experiment
Liquid soap used for washing dishes

1. Carefully pour the milk into the tray so that it just covers the bottom
2. Add about 6-8 drops of different colored food coloring onto the milk in different spots
3. Add about 5 drops of the liquid soap onto the drops of food coloring and watch the
show!
4. To clean up, simply pour the colored milk down the drain. (don't drink it!)

So you know where the color comes from, but why milk and liquid soap? The main job of
dish soap it to go after fat and break it down. Usually the fat is on dishes from the food we
eat, but fat is also in whole milk. When you drop the liquid soap onto the tray, it tried to
break down the fat in the milk. While it was doing that, it caused the colors to scatter and
mix creating a very colorful display. Have fun!


The project above is a DEMONSTRATION. To make it a true experiment, you can try to
answer these questions:
1. What liquid dish soap works the best?
2. Does the shape of the tray affect the reaction?



Lava lamp
A clean 1 liter clear soda bottle
3/4 cup of water
Vegetable Oil
Fizzing tablets (such as Alka Seltzer)
Food coloring

1. Pour the water into the bottle.

2. Use a measuring cup or funnel to slowly pour the vegetable oil into the bottle until it's
almost full. You may have to wait a few minutes for the oil and water separate.

3. Add 10 drops of food coloring to the bottle (we like red, but any color will look great.)
The drops will pass through the oil and then mix with the water below.

4. Break a seltzer tablet in half and drop the half tablet into the bottle. Watch it sink to the
bottom and let the blobby greatness begin!
5. To keep the effect going, just add another tablet piece. For a true lava lamp effect, shine
a flashlight through the bottom of the bottle.

To begin, the oil stays above the water because the oil is lighter than the water or, more
specifically, less dense than water. The oil and water do not mix because of something
called "intermolecular polarity." That term is fun to bring up in dinner conversation.
Molecular polarity basically means that water molecules are attracted to other water
molecules. They get along fine, and can loosely bond together (drops.) This is similar to
magnets that are attracted to each other. Oil molecules are attracted to other oil molecules,
they get along fine as well. But the structures of the two molecules do not allow them to
bond together. Of course, theres a lot more fancy scientific language to describe density
and molecular polarity, but maybe now youll at least look at that vinegrette salad dessing
in a whole new way.
When you added the tablet piece, it sank to the bottom and started dissolving and creating
a gas. As the gas bubbles rose, they took some of the colored water with them. When the
blob of water reached the top, the gas escaped and down went the water. Cool, huh? By the
way, you can store your "Blobs In A Bottle" with the cap on, and then anytime you want to
bring it back to life, just add another tablet piece.

The project above is a DEMONSTRATION. To make it a true experiment, you can try to
answer these questions:
1. Does the temperature of the water affect the reaction?
2. Does the size of the bottle affect how many blobs are produced?
3. Does the effect still work if the cap is put on the bottle?
4. Does the size of the tablet pieces affect the number of blobs created?