Dry Ice Smoke Ring Launcher - Sick Science!

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About Steve Spangler Science...

Steve Spangler is a celebrity teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. Spangler is probably best known for his Mentos and Diet Coke geyser experiment that went viral in 2005 and prompted more than 1,000 related YouTube videos. Spangler is the founder of www.SteveSpanglerScience.com, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of science toys, classroom science demonstrations, teacher resources and home for Spangler's popular science experiment archive and video collection. Spangler is a frequent guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show where he takes classroom science experiments to the extreme. Check out his pool filled with 2,500 boxes of cornstarch!

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On the education side, Spangler started his career as a science teacher in the Cherry Creek School district for 12 years. Today, Steve travels extensively training teachers in ways to make learning more engaging and fun. His hands-on science boot camps and summer institutes for teachers inspire and teach teachers how to prepare a new generation for an ever-changing work force. Over the last 15 years, he has also made more than 500 television appearances as an authority on hands-on science and inquiry-based learning.

On the business side, Spangler is the founder and CEO of Steve Spangler Science, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of educational toys and kits and hands-on science training services for teachers. The companys unique business strategies and viral creations have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Wired and TIME Magazine where online readers voted Steve Spangler #18 in the Top 100 Most Influential People of the Year for 2006 (what were they thinking?). You'll find more than 140 Spangler created products available online at SteveSpanglerScience.com and distributed to toy stores and mass-market retailers worldwide.

Spangler joined NBC affiliate 9News in 2001 as the science education specialist. His weekly experiments and science segments are designed to teach viewers creative ways to make learning fun. His now famous Mentos Geyser experiment, turning 2-liter bottles of soda into erupting fountains, became an Internet sensation in September 2005 when thousands of people started posting their own Mentos explosions on YouTube.com.

As founder of SteveSpanglerScience.com, Spangler and his design team have developed more than 140 educational toys and science-related products featured by mass-market retailers like Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R' Us, Discovery Channel Stores and over 1,400 independent specialty toy stores. His educational science catalog and on-line business offers more than a thousand science toys and unique learning resources. Recently, Spangler has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, WIRED, the History Channel, Food Network and TIME Magazine where on-line readers voted Steve Spangler #18 in the Top 100 Most Influential People of the Year for 2006.

His recent appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres Show have taught viewers how to blow up their food, shock their friends, create mountains of foam, play on a bed of nails, vanish in a cloud of smoke and how to turn 2,500 boxes of cornstarch and a garden hose into a swimming pool of fun.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Dry
• Ice
• Smoke
• Ring
• Launcher
• Sick
• Science
• Cool
• Experiment
• Halloween
• Spooky
• Steve
• Spangler

[WinnSkin]

how do you get dry ice? D: i tried to make it with a type d Co2 fire extinguisher but all i had was yellow puff

[SteveSpanglerScience]

@WinnSkin You can buy dry ice at most grocery stores, you just need to be 18 or older to purchase.

[randyrox69]

flames can not burn in nitrogen and need oxygen when the air in replaced with the nitrogen the nitrogen puts the flame out but in this demonstration the rings where quiet shitty and was most likely just from the rapid air flow. :D

[Stevespanglerscience]

@randyrox69 actually the answer is rapid air flow. It had nothing to do with Nitrogen or Oxygen. You don't need dry ice to put the flame out.

[re5ruless]

@Stevespanglerscience why do you always use sick science now

[Stevespanglerscience]

@re5ruless If you're looking for more Steve Spangler videos check out our other youtube channel 'Spangler Science TV.'

[Crazykid6629]

this sounds like elevator music

[TheDarkVoid19]

Dry ice is frozen CO2. When dry ice sublimates, it turns directly into its gas (CO2). Fire needs oxygen to burn. When you shoot a jet of CO2 at it, it no longer has a sustainable source of oxygen and it is put out. [This is how some fire extinguishers work.]

[ilovekars]

Steve why did you change the channel i liked it before :C

[MrDERPIFY]

@0909rayman I'm thinking that the bag is probably stronger, but I'm not sure.

[Eslamaher]

@TboneIsRogue Do you have a video for that? because I can't imagine it.

[0909rayman]

why not use siran wrap instead of a zip lock bag

[FrAgStEaLeR4490]

Guys. if you wanna do more powerfull launchings, take a rubber band and wrap it so that it sits on the plastic bag and doesnt touch the hole where the smoke is supposed to come out. that way when you pull the rubber band back at the plastic bag and release it it gives insane power and you can shoot even further ^^ have fun :D

[TboneIsRogue]

I would like to say something that is almost utterly irrelevant to this. *Random?*

Step:

1) Get a cardboard cylinder from the inside of a toilet paper roll.

2) Snip off the mouth of the balloon and wrap it around the base of the cardboard.

3) Wrap a rubber band around the balloon to keep it secured.

4) Drop a penny into the cylindrical cardboard and place your index finger and thumb onto the coin through the balloon.

5) Pull the balloon outwards with the coin in between your fingers.

6) Release.

[pivotcorp]

awesome

[DrMrSuperAwesomeGuy]

If you look closely at 0:49, you can see that the orange letters spell science.

[ston3r1998]

yeh cause i have dry ice just laying around anywhere.