Archive for experiments
November 30, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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In this episode of Mythbusters, they try to find out whether the fabled myth that the elephant’s arch nemesis the mouse is true or not. In this experiment, they had to deliver the mouse to freak the elephant. Check it out to see whether elephants are really scared of mice.
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November 3, 2007 at 5:43 pm
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An experiment to see what will happen when the glass of a glass door is removed. This is to teach those people who keep on pushing the glass instead of the metal handle a lesson for leaving smudges on the glass.
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September 15, 2007 at 3:01 am
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An interesting experiment to see whether the katana (depicted in many animes and videogames to cut through bullets) which is made of folded steel can withstand the 9mm ammo bullet.
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May 23, 2007 at 1:30 am
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An experiment by a teacher to create a ‘thunderstorm’ by spilling liquid nitrogen into boiling water. Cool stuff.
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March 26, 2007 at 9:44 am
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Future Weapons of Discovery takes a look into the Sensor-Fused bomb that rains molten copper into its targets. A smart one thousand pound cluster bomb and can destroy dozens of tanks in one time at a range of 380 acres equivalent to sixteen football fields. Richard gets to experience how the sinister weapon work at the test site.
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January 21, 2007 at 4:00 am
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A short film by Neistat Brothers where a candle positioned in between two cups is lit on both ends as an experiment. It is part of the ‘Science Experiments’ film series.
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January 16, 2007 at 7:59 am
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This is in French but the best part of it does not require you to understand it. Check out this cool thermite explosion in which aluminium metal is oxidized by the oxide of another metal. Skip into the second minute since the setting up takes a long time and its no fun when u don’t understand what they are saying.
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December 27, 2006 at 8:34 am
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An experiment of dry ice bombs at a backyard pool. Multiple setups was done and one even detonated on the surface of the water. The explosion is so powerful that it sets off a car alarm two houses away. A slow motion of the explosions is played back near the end.
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October 1, 2006 at 5:12 am
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This is an experiment you can do at home. Hold an egg above a candle until the ash covers the whole egg and then place it in water. The smoke particles causes the water to stay partially suspended with the egg as it refract the light to create a mirror illusion.
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September 30, 2006 at 11:48 pm
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We all have tried reacting alkali metals such as potassium and sodium with water in our science labs but what happens when the top alkali metals such as rubidium and cesium is used?
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