Experiments
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- Wonderama: Explorations in Science Education
- Wonderama is a Lansing based company providing assembly and hands-on programs in science and math to students in Michigan.
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- Glowing Pickle
- Two enhancements to the standard demonstration apparatus: using a ground fault interrupt (GFI) to reduce the risk of electrocuting the demonstrator, and using potassium chloride (a dietary salt substitute) to produce a pink glow rather than the traditional sodium yellow. Also discusses the mechanism of the single-ended glow.
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- Shady Hollow
- Details how to build a glowing/flaming Pickle. Includes photos of the apparatus using heavy-gauge wire and glass jars as insulators, and a plugged-in pickle glowing only at one end.
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- The Electric Pickle as Will and Idea
- Philosophical discussion of the meaning of the experiment, and multimedia files (.AVI, .MOV, .WAV) of the results.
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