Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Solvent test.

So I attempted to dissolve peeps in numerous substances.

Five to be exact.

This is about three of them. Let to sit for weeks in: Plain water, vinegar, and ammonia. A base, an acid, and a neutral.


I rather fancied to alcohol as well, but that didn't pan through.

I had the bright idea to strap the peeps down to rocks so I could see them easily in the jar. It didn't work. They all came undone and floated to the top of the jar. I had to turn the jars upside down to see the peeps.

I also did a little bit of Kombuka. But I wasn't given much of it. So I had to use a small jar. It doesn't desolve quite the same in such small space. This is one of the five, but it doesn't count the same as the three above.

I placed them in this tray so as to stop them from spilling all over the place. They did end up spilling. But thanks to this ingenious tray idea of mine, it didn't go "all over the place".


On one spill, you could see the sweet yellow scales that had fallen off now floating in pool of... whatever jar had spilled that time... I think it was the vinegar. I neglected to keep the sugary scales for further research.

This is the current state of the jars. It's a little hard to tell, but the vinegar still has peepy foam on the top. The water is as good as desolved, and there's nothing left in the ammonia one. The vinegar and the water still have their original color. But you'll notice the ammonia has turned a bright red. I think I may be on to something with this. I'll have to run more experiments with the ammonia to be sure. For all I know, it might have been the rock I tried to strap the peep to that turned the ammonia red.

2 comments:

Droideka said...
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Droideka said...

So, what about oil and battery acid?

Great jorb, by the way, great jorb!