By Kieran Kyanite
Total cost: less than $10 Preparation: approximately 5-10 minutes Feeling like some holiday fun? Or maybe your room needs lighting for a 60's dance party. Whatever your reason, we’ve got you covered here at Superheated Science with our super groovy lava lamp! See if you can get the following before we get started; and don’t forget to clean up after! 1x clear plastic bottle. Try a 2 litre coke bottle with the label torn off 1x bottle of vegetable oil (1.7 litres). You can use other cooking oils if you don’t have vegetable oil 1x box of food colouring- we love red here at Superheated Science! 1x box of Alka-Seltzer (should be available at most supermarkets in the medicine aisle) 1x cup of water (250 millilitres) 1x small satchel of glitter (we recommend blue) ****if you don’t have Alka-Seltzer, then you can simply tip the bottle on its ends to get a similar effect
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By Bozana Basalt The ocean is often associated with wetness, vastness and deepness. Some areas are cold, others tropical, and some are superheated. Here at Superheated Science, we crave to know what is under the ocean and how some of it is superheated. Enter, hydrothermal vents, the place where it all happens! Hydrothermal vents are underwater geysers. Geysers are simply cracks in the Earth’s crust that are the result from superheated water and steam building up and breaking through. They form on tectonic plate margins (edges of tectonic plates) where they are moving apart. This allows hot magma to rise up and fill the gap, creating underwater volcanoes and fresh crust. Ocean water filters through cracks in the ocean floor, and infiltrates deep into the crust. As it comes into contact with the rising magma, it becomes superheated and starts to dissolve minerals in the crust. Now that the ocean water is heated it breaks through the crust in a jet. As the hot water mixes with the cold ocean water, all the dissolved minerals solidify and settle to the ocean floor to form what is known as a hydrothermal vent!(2) Superheated Science Question: What do you think causes the dissolved minerals to solidify?
By Kieran Kyanite Check out these hot monkeys! Macaques to be precise. Other than being kawaii (Japanese for cute), they’re also very smart. Based in Japan, the monkeys in Jigokudani, meaning “Hell Valley,” have been soaking in the hot pools for 50 years. This is the only place in the world where monkeys are known to use hot springs. They soak in the 40 degree hot springs all day before drying themselves in the afternoon so they don’t freeze at night. Not a bad idea considering temperatures hit minus 15 degrees in winter! Bathing all year round, the habit started when young monkeys would swim in the local Korokan inn. The young monkeys saw humans swimming in the pools of the hotel and began copying them. When people chased them from the hotel pools, they simply moved to the hot pools. Due to their close contact with humans, they aren’t afraid of us either. In fact, they simply ignore us- which makes them great for taking photos of!
By Imogen Imbrignite If you want to cook dinner, all you have to do is turn on an oven. But how does the oven become hot enough to cook food? In most houses, the oven is heated by electricity. But in Rotorua(1), a town in New Zealand, the heat comes from inside the earth. Hot molten rock, called magma, rises close to the earth's surface. The magma heats up solid rock nearby. Sometimes this rock is not much warmer that your own body. But in Rotorua, it can get hot enough to cook food! Hangi is a special type of meal that is popular in Rotorua. What makes it special is that the earth's heat is used as an oven to cook the food. To make it, a hole is dug above steaming hot rocks. The hole is then filled with lots of good food, usually chicken, beef, corn, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots and a pudding for dessert. The cooks then place a lid over the hole and leave everything for several hours. Once it's done, they take the food out and enjoy a dinner that was cooked inside the earth.
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