Vegetable Oil Lava Lamp

Fill the bottle up about 1 4th 1 quarter with water.

Vegetable oil lava lamp.

Vegetable oil or you could use mineral or baby oil instead fizzing tablets such as alka seltzer food coloring. Vegetable oil water and an alka seltzer tablet. A traditional ceramic dish oil lamp how the vegetable oil lamp works. Instead of vegetable oil you can use baby oil.

We found it created a lot of bubbles and the clarity of the lava lamp was not as good but it does still work. Unlike the water molecule there is equal sharing of electrons between the carbon and hydrogen atoms. Even if you are using olive oil which is fairly expensive it still ends up being cheaper than most candles. The original lava lamps are not safe to leave on all night.

Because the original lava lamp produces heat and it is not safe to keep the. Add 3 4 drops of the food colour to the water and oil solution and mix it well. If you don t have all the ingredients on hand you can make a few substitutions. Watch scientist joe as he makes the lava lamp experiment here.

The flame ignites it causing the oil to vaporize. Then add some salt to the bottle or an effervescent tablet so the mixture starts fizzing. Food coloring primary colors or neon. Original alka seltzer tablets.

Vegetable oil on the other hand is a nonpolar molecule made of long chains of hydrocarbons strings of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms. Pour the vegetable oil in the bottle until is almost full. How much vegetable oil do you put in a lava lamp. Take the alka seltzer tablets and break them into 2 or 3 pieces.

Next if you don t have alka seltzer you can make your own mix. Lava lamp without alka seltzer. For this groovy experiment kids get to recreate their parents lava lamp while learning about liquid density. I prefer to have atleast 3 4 of the container.

When using aspirin eno tablet. To begin color about 1 2 cup of water with food coloring. I like using these gel food colors for vibrant coloring. You can choose the size of the container based on how much vegetable oil you have to spare.

Even a small amount of oil can burn for a few hours. To make a lava lamp with household ingredients start by pouring vegetable oil water and food coloring into a plastic bottle. The vegetable oil will be drawn up into the wick. Can you leave lava lamps on all night.

Your lava lamp is ready. To make a cool looking lava lamp you ll need a large flashlight like the one in the.