Sep 10, 2012

Melting dry ice

This experiment has done by my students, just minutes ago. Actually it is very difficult to observe a liquid state of CO2 because of sublimation in a natural setting. But we can see a liquid CO2 due to high pressure inside of a pipette. This finally ended up with tiny explosion :D 드라이아이스의 융해 - 이산화탄소의 액체 상태를 잠깐 동안 관찰할 수 있는 ...

Apr 18, 2012

Demo of liquid oxygen

1. Firing air Now you can see the drops apparently and also realize that the drops are oxygen which make wood burning ** 산소의 성질이 정확하게 발혀지기 전까지는 firing air 정도의 의미로 이해했었다. 2. Paramagnetism When I put magnet closer to liquid oxygen drops, they were attracted by it. This shows that oxygen is paramagnetic. 콜라캔을 타고 흘러내리는 액체 산소에 자석을 가까이 대니 자석쪽으로...