Exploring Your Universe 2010

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Exploring Your Universe Fire and Ice Demo Show Nov. 13, 2010

 

Art Huffman breathes out liquid nitrogen:

 

Liquid oxygen looks pale blue:

 

What happens if we add liquid oxygen to glowing steel wool?

 

Let's try that again:

 

Burning magnesium inside a block of dry ice. Oxygen is pulled out of the CO2 leaving black carbon:

 

Video projection of paramagnetic liquid oxygen sticking between the poles of a magnet:

 

Highly pinning superconductor is suspended upside down on a magnet track:

 

Tesla Coil:

 

Exploring Your Universe Interactive Physics Activities Nov. 13, 2010

 

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