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A graduate teacher has asked for equipment for her students to explode jelly babies as she saw it on u tube and it looked like fun. Now I dont have access to u tube at work (a banned site at this school) so I havent had a look at it but the teacher says you heat up potassium chloride over a bunsen until it melts and drop a jelly baby in it. The result is the reaction of the jelly baby in the melted potassium chloride produces a flash of white light.
I did manage to find a website that showed me a picture and brief description of what they were about and some of them said things like "teacher nearly loses hand" "boy's jumper catches on fire" and from the pictures it looks pretty dangerous!
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Has anyone else done this before?
Is it a teacher demo only?
Would you let year 9's do this?
Does u tube drive you mad with their "real" experiments? Last term we had 10 mobile phones pointed at popping corn and making them ring at the same time to mimic a u tube video which showed 4 mobiles emmitting enough radiation to pop the corn. We just wasted a lot of credit on our phones and the corn didnt move!
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