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Science demos


I've been curating a list of interesting science demonstrations one could do at home with only relatively small investment of time and money. For example, did you know you could make a cloud chamber sufficient to see tracks of cosmic rays using just some dry ice, alcohol, and craft supplies?

I've tried to be reasonably thorough without sacrificing quality, but I'm sure there's some good ones I'm missing. Any favorites?

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in reply to Kevin Gibbons

I have only done a small fraction of these myself but I'm going to make a sincere effort to work through as many as I can with my kid/kids. I feel like a good science class should have a lot more of this stuff and significantly less memorization. You can memorize stuff once it's motivated, not before.
in reply to Kevin Gibbons

These are great! Some things that come to mind:

in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun

Ooh, nice. The water boiling one is especially great; will add. (I love AlphaPhoenix; gotta binge the rest of his stuff at some point. Already have at least one of his other videos on the page.)
in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun

Added both! The first as just a note on the existing Schlieren section. Let me know if you come across any more.