Water-oil-ice

[GoldEagle315]

whats the deal whid it?

[14Jimlee]

Will someone message me and tell me steps?

[crudeoilsystems]

yes, we can have fun with water and oil, I know this!

[DanceSingAct10]

it works

[MrGroundHogCookies]

looks like a lava lamp XD

[saurdn]

@SlavaVB

apparently it wont work because of the surface tension of the water

nicholasacademy . com / scienceexperiment250wateroilic­e html

last paragraph

[shkateboarding]

And it probably took you just that long to comment and complain about it

[JerrySpock]

I wonder if there is a way to do this. Put oil in container. Put water in container. Oil is now on the top and water on the bottom. Put the container in the freezer.  When you take the container out, the oil is on the bottom and the ice is on the top. The problem would be that the ice would adhere to the sides of the container and not allow it to slip upward once it's density changed. There's got to be a way to do this.

[JFParmentier]

This experiment took approximatively 5 min. I used a camera with something like 2 snapshots by seconde.

[GeneralSub]

It would be nice to know over how long that took, as it was apparently a time lapse.

[Multimovil]

densidad

[bavly6]

ice flots becuse it has less density than both the oil and the water it's a very amazing charctristic found mainly in water where the solid form is less dence than the liquid. This affect is why when it is cold and lakes freez the fish don;t die because the ice remains floting above the less dence liquid form of water

[thepervysailor]

4 whats?

4 years?

4 eons?

4 centuries?

[kingkonaha]

it would be cool if he showed us how to do it

[shoetoebox]

get oil, water and an ice cube,

put them in a cup and there it is,

you could dye the water like this guy did.

[salvagno420]

I'm gonna go try that :)

[SlavaVB]

would be awesome if you could somehow refreeze the water at the bottom so it turns back to ice and comes up... sorta like a lava lamp but backwards.

[thepervysailor]

i dont think thats possible, water always freezes from top to bottom, which is why rivers and lakes freeze over, and the depths of the ocean don't.

[Jack23869115]

i think ocean dont freeze cause of salt o.O

[Sp33dyD3m0n]

@Jack23869115 Haha yup your right. Salt. Haha, it has nothing to do with water temps or heat transfer. Oceans freeze all the time, are you familiar with the Arctic Ocean? Or how about a harbor or large bay in the ocean? They freeze all the time yet are salt water. The reason they don't freeze is the amount of heat retained within the water itself. Plus thats a lot of water to cool off and would take decades of no sun and subzero temps not just a few cold months a year.

[K1va]

cool