Vegetable Oil Lava Lamp

You can choose the size of the container based on how much vegetable oil you have to spare.

Vegetable oil lava lamp.

Vegetable oil on the other hand is a nonpolar molecule made of long chains of hydrocarbons strings of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms. Original alka seltzer tablets. How much vegetable oil do you put in a lava lamp. Food coloring primary colors or neon.

Lava lamp without alka seltzer. Take the alka seltzer tablets and break them into 2 or 3 pieces. Your lava lamp is ready. I like using these gel food colors for vibrant coloring.

Pour the vegetable oil in the bottle until is almost full. I prefer to have atleast 3 4 of the container. The flame ignites it causing the oil to vaporize. Next if you don t have alka seltzer you can make your own mix.

Because the original lava lamp produces heat and it is not safe to keep the. For this groovy experiment kids get to recreate their parents lava lamp while learning about liquid density. The original lava lamps are not safe to leave on all night. To begin color about 1 2 cup of water with food coloring.

When using aspirin eno tablet. Can you leave lava lamps on all night. To make a cool looking lava lamp you ll need a large flashlight like the one in the. We found it created a lot of bubbles and the clarity of the lava lamp was not as good but it does still work.

So for 1 portion of water i would add 3 portion of oil for a lava lamp. Add 3 4 drops of the food colour to the water and oil solution and mix it well. To make a lava lamp with household ingredients start by pouring vegetable oil water and food coloring into a plastic bottle. Even a small amount of oil can burn for a few hours.

Then add some salt to the bottle or an effervescent tablet so the mixture starts fizzing. Vegetable oil water and an alka seltzer tablet. Fill the container about 3 4 with vegetable oil. Unlike the water molecule there is equal sharing of electrons between the carbon and hydrogen atoms.

If you don t have all the ingredients on hand you can make a few substitutions. Fill up to of t the glass mason jar with vegetable oil fill the remaining of the glass mason jar with water leaving about an inch empty at the top. Watch scientist joe as he makes the lava lamp experiment here. Even if you are using olive oil which is fairly expensive it still ends up being cheaper than most candles.

Instead of vegetable oil you can use baby oil. Vegetable oil or you could use mineral or baby oil instead fizzing tablets such as alka seltzer food coloring.