Thursday, July 23, 2009

Geology formation of a basin trap oil

Oil is a very precious natural resource; this video shows how oil is stored in a trap formed by tectonics forces.

Magnet levitates in a plate of pyrolytcs graphite

Pyrolytcs graphite is a diamagnetic material, which means that a magnetic field will be repelled by this material. Thus the magnet floats

Slow-motion Rubber Band Trick: that is Amazing!

A simple science trick you can do at home, using two rubber bands and a CRT TV screen. The TV screen works as a stroboscopic light, and when the frequency of rubber band is near the TV vertical frequency the rubber band seems to moving in slow motion.

Sodium Acetate Slow Crystalization

"A single seed crystal was added to the saturated sodium Acetate solution while at 30C. Omnidirectional needle-like crystals radiated outward from the seed on contact at the solution's surface."
From: youtube video description

Thermal rubber band machine

"This is a demonstration called the rubber band heat engine. As the name suggests, you take rubber bands, apply heat to them and they do work for you... just not terribly much of it. But its interesting nonetheless."
From: youtube video description

Rainbow Juice using Sugar, KMnO4 and NaOH

Using some sugar, NaOH, and KMnO4 is easy to prepare a rainbow juice. The KMnO4 is reducing and changing the flask color.

An invention that can save a life, or some fingers

This is a very useful invention that can help a lot, this mechanism may save some fingers stopping immediately the saw.
The creator of machine will test the efficiency of his invention, the saw will stop? See for your self