Fake Snow - Periodic Table of Videos
Professor Poliakoff discusses Sodium polyacrylate - which has a variety of uses including artificial snow! Even buy some on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1B22sqd ...
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Brady's given me a Christmas present This is so-called 'artificial snow', or sodium polyacrylate It's a white powder. If I put a little bit on the desk... And what happens with this and why people like it: is that it absorbs water very easily. I've got some water here. And since it's just water, I can do the experiments in my office. So, are you ready? We'll try and see what happens. If you pour a bit of water on this You can see, it swells up Probably I didn't put enough Bit more... It feels very like snow. I can even dribble it on my 'DNA' Christmas tree, that I was given as a Christmas present Perhaps we should try the experiment on a larger scale I've got a beaker here and we'll put the lot in This material is famous for its absorption ...
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Brady's given me a Christmas present This is so-called 'artificial snow', or sodium polyacrylate It's a white powder. If I put a little bit on the desk... And what happens with this and why people like it: is that it absorbs water very easily. I've got some water here. And since it's just water, I can do the experiments in my office. So, are you ready? We'll try and see what happens. If you pour a bit of water on this You can see, it swells up Probably I didn't put enough Bit more... It feels very like snow. I can even dribble it on my 'DNA' Christmas tree, that I was given as a Christmas present Perhaps we should try the experiment on a larger scale I've got a beaker here and we'll put the lot in This material is famous for its absorption ...
