Aaaahhh water :)
I agree with @agmoore's comment. This blog is a great way to shed light on water as a solvent.
On an almsot non-related note, I also played a bit with water this year to illustrate simple electrostatic properties. As water is an electric dipole, we can make flowing water react to charged Ebonite (hard rubber) or glass sticks. Look for "Bending water with static electricity" online. You can find really cool stuff ^^
Cheers!
Thanks for reading through! Will sure look into this! Perhaps i could master the trick to since i've always wanted to be a "water- bender" haahaa! 😁
I did in live in front of 50 students. There is definitely no trick. It is pure electrostatic attraction/repulsion ;)
Awesome! The beauty of science! :) I trust your students enjoyed watching you do it as much as you enjoyed doing it :)
They usually like a lot when we run small experiments in front of them ^^
We also build our lectures through an app, so that we can ask questions live, and see what they answer (how they would predict the results of an experiment for instance). This is very cool to make the course interactive.
Sounds super cool! They get to enjoy from the very best... You should do a recording of these experiments and share with us as well, if you can :)
Maybe next year. This year was the first one and everything was somewhat experimental, if you see what I mean... ;)
Yeah sure! That is absolutely fine.. definitely looking forward to it