Lava Lamp Homemade. The Lava Lamp, or lava lamp, is a real design object with a vintage look. The original Lava Lamps contain wax, light up and appear to form a real lava flow inside. In our own small way we can try to make one starting from the recovery of a plastic or glass bottle, to admire the effervescent effect and to show the children a small multicolored experiment. Here's how to make a DIY Lava Lamp.
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La Lava Lampthe lava lamp, is a real object of design by appearance vintage. The original Lava Lamps contain wax, light up and appear to form a real lava flow inside. In our own small way we can try to make one starting from the recovery of one plastic bottle or glass, to admire the effervescent effect and to show children a little one multicolored experiment.
The creation of Lava Lamp Homemade usually requires the use of water e oil. That What happen combining the two ingredients? The oil will tend to rise to the surface, while the water will go to the bottom. By adding an effervescent tablet, or other ingredients, you will get a reaction capable of generating carbon dioxide. Thus will form bubbles which will move upwards. Carbon dioxide will escape from the bottle and the water will return to the bottom. You can replace the plastic bottle with one glass bottle with a particular shape. Here are some ways to make yours Lava Lamp fai-da-te all to be experienced.
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1) Blobs in a Bottle
1 1 liter plastic bottle180 ml of water
Vegetable oil
Food coloring
Effervescent tablets 1 flashlight
Science Bob suggests pouring the water into the bottle with a funnel and adding vegetable oil (eg corn oil) until it is full. Wait a few minutes for the water and oil to separate. Add a few drops of food coloring. Place in the half bottle effervescent tablet to create the bubbles. Add another piece of tablet to recreate the sparkling effect. To power it all up, bet one torch, perhaps with intermittent light, towards the bottom of the bottle. Look at the video.
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2) Lava Lamp Kids
If you want to practice the experiment with i children, you can use gods plastic jars in place of bottles. Thus the risk of them spilling will be less, as he suggests Teaching Mama. Precisely because this is an experiment for children, you will not use effervescent tablets, which could be accidentally swallowed. You will need:
Plastic jars
Cold water
Vegetable oil
Food coloring
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Fill each jar ¾ full with water. Add a few drops of food coloring and mix. You can match the chosen dye to the shade of the lid as a trick to teach the little ones to recognize colors. Add the oil remaining just below the rim of the jar. Then merge a pinch of salt at a time and admire the formation of bubbles.
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3) Homemade Lava Lamp
1 plastic bottle
1 crumbled effervescent tablet
2 or 3 drops of food coloring
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Vegetable oil
Fill the chosen bottle almost completely with oil. In the small remaining part, add water and watch it settle on the bottom, under the oil. Add 2 or 3 drops of the food coloring of your choice. Crumble one effervescent tablet and insert into the bottle one piece at a time, as he explains Home Training Tools. Your Lava Lamp will begin to erupt. Look at the video to see the Lava Lamp in action.
4) Lava Lamp Led
Here is a video which shows the construction and operation of a Lava Lamp created from a bottle and a bottle water pump made from an old decorative fountain. There is also one Led bulb to make the Lava Lamp really bright, also thanks to the presence of intermittent color lights. The pump allows the continuous movement of the water. The project has nothing to envy to the Lava Lamps that we can find for sale. Look at the video.
5) Lava Lamp Bicarbonate
To replace the effervescent tablet - which is the most common ingredient to make Lava Lamps - you can use vinegar e bicarbonate, as he explains Science Made Fun Kids. You will need:
1 plastic bottle
1 dropper
1 funnel
1 glass jar
3-4 tablespoons of baking soda
3-4 drops of food coloring
200 ml of vinegar
Vegetable oil
Using the funnel, pour 3 or 4 tablespoons of bicarbonate. Let it settle until it forms a very compact layer. Then pour in the oil filling the bottle ¾ trying not to disturb the bicarbonate. Pour thevinegar into the glass jar and add 3 or 4 drops of food coloring. With a dropper pour 5 or 6 drops of vinegar into the bottle and see what happens. Add another 5 or 6 drops of vinegar and continue like this until all the bubbles have risen to the surface. In this case the water is replaced by vinegar. Vinegar and oil do not mix with each other. The vinegar goes down and reacts on contact with the baking soda. It releases carbon dioxide and forms bubbles directed upwards.
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Marta Albè
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