Lab Ninja

Crazy hacks and experiments

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50000 Matches Death Star Fire Chain Reaction

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53rd SUPER BOWL 2019 Tribute Matchstick Chain Reaction Build and Burn

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Sponge

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Sweets Bon Bons

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Homemade Jello Edible Slime

For this experiment we've stacked our homemade jello edible slime inside one foot tall vase. Jello edible slime was made using gelatin and if you want I can make video only about that topic. There is about two pounds of jello in the glass vase and it's on room temperature. Maybe you will notice the Leidenfrost Effect at the beginning. Air bubble disappears when the ball reaches blue slime and that's when it gets noisy. "The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly. Because of this 'repulsive force', a droplet hovers over the surface rather than making physical contact with it. This is most commonly seen when cooking: one sprinkles drops of water in a pan to gauge its temperature: if the pan's temperature is at or above the Leidenfrost point, the water skitters across the pan and takes longer to evaporate than in a pan with a temperature below the Leidenfrost point but still above boiling. It is named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost." - Wikipedia

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Ping Pong Balls EXPLOSION

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Marshmallows

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Experiment Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Cotton Candy

Cotton candy is made of sugar and food dyes (less than 1%). What will happen when we introduce sizzling hot metal ball into the glass filled with cotton candy? Well, it will spit fire! After we throw the ball in, all of the candy melted in seconds. I was under impression that white smoke, formed after sugar melting, was acting as a fuel in this case. It totally looked like those fumes were burning and not sugar, which was on the bottom of the glass. What do you think?

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Coca Cola VS Coca Cola Zero Sugar Experiment

In this experiment we are reducing Coca Cola and Coca Cola Zero until all of the water evaporates. Coca Cola (Classic) contains about 10 grams of sugar per 100 grams of mass, while Coca Cola Zero, theoretically (and practically, as we will prove) contains 0% and therefore 0g of sugar. Then why are Coca Cola Zero and Diet Coke sweet if they don't contain any sugar? Well, they contain artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and acesulfame potassium (aka acesulfame K, aka Ace K). Actually, they do contain the same amount of both sweeteners. As they don't contain any sugar, they are both very low on calories. When water evaporated, original Coca Cola was smoking in bluish-grey color, meaning sugar was starting to burn. That's when we stopped boiling it and that is all caramelized sugar starting to burn. As for Coca Cola Zero, all water evaporated leaving very small amount of residue, probably just colors and artificial sweeteners. I hope this video was educational and interesting and made you rethink about your soft-drink consuming habits.

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Skittles and Water Experiment - Skittles Rainbow

This is Skittles and water experiment, also known as "Skittles diffusion experiment", "Skittles rainbow experiment" and so on. This experiment is very easy to do at home, with your kids. We did it because we love colorful experiments. :) For this experiment you are going to need one (two, three..?) pack of skittles, one plate and glass of warm water. Arrange Skittles around the plate to your liking and then add warm water. Sit back and enjoy! Skittles are coated in food coloring and sugar. When you pour water over the skittles the colored coating dissolves spreading through the water. The color and sugar dissolve into the water and then diffuse through the water, making it the color of the skittle.

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EXPERIMENT Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Soap

Beer, caramel and a bar of soap. That's on todays menu. Yeah, beer reacted just as we expected, nevertheless it was crazy and interesting. Very little residue has left inside the glass after boiling. Burning caramels was very interesting - it's always interesting when we burn something containing large amount of sugar. Sugar is crazy interesting as it burns almost like rocket fuel or more like "candy equivalent of rocket fuel". :) Bar of soap is the star of this video. Very interesting reaction. At first, soap starts to burn, melt and boil, but as soon as the ball goes deeper, it loses enough oxygen to stop burning, but still melting and boiling soap bar. Is glowing 1000 degree enough to run this metal ball through soap bar? Well, yes it is. The ball burns all the way through, leaving very artistic shapes of leaking molten soap. After melting it, I left it to cool down and then I broke it in half to release the ball. It was really difficult to break soap bar open. Metal ball was firmly "welded" inside and I couldn't break the soap with my hands.

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Acetone and Styrofoam Experiment Explained - Dissolving Polystyrene

In this experiment we dissolve objects made of styrofoam with acetone. It is well known that acetone dissolves polystyrene, material that styrofoam is made of. Polystyrene is made from an organic compound called monomer styrene. Styrofoam dissolves in acetone in a similar way to how sugar dissolves in water. It is a reaction in which air completely leaves styrofoam leaving it to dissolve in acetone and turn into plastic slime at the bottom of the dish. This material is reusable. You can use this slime to mold it and shape it into something useful. It can be used to paint objects, protecting it from rain, snow, moist etc.

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How to Make Lava Lamp - Science Experiment

You can try this experiment with your kid, because it's so easy, interesting and beautiful. For this experiment you are going to need one glass (or bottle, vase), vegetable oil, water, food coloring and Alka Seltzer (or effervescent vitamins). First you pour water in the glass and then pour vegetable oil. Try to pour oil on the side of the glass, so you don't make too many bubbles. Anyway, if you make a lot of bubbles, let it rest for a while. When water and oil separate and majority of bubbles are gone, add few drops of food dye. Food coloring won't dissolve in oil, but instead it will submerge until it reaches water. In some cases it will dissolve in water right away and in other cases it will stay between oil and water as bubbles. This is because there is thin film of oil outside the bubble which prevents it from mixing with water. After that, you just drop one Alka Seltzer into the whole thing, relax and enjoy the view. I used effervescent vitamin C. I think this way reaction is more bubbly then with Alka Seltzer. When lava lamp uses all the "power" of tablet, just add another one. I added five or six in a row and it was working like a charm.

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EXPERIMENT Glowing 1000 Degree Metal Ball VS Red Bull

I don't know if Red Bull gives you wings, but this video will surely entertain you. Our first contender is instant tea. I personally like classic or traditional tea, but a lot of people drink instant tea. It's reaction to 1000 degree metal ball was awesome. It even started forming black fire snake, like in that famous experiment with baking soda and sugar. Black snake formation is very gentle and crunches even under gentle pressure of my palm. Melted instant tea, on the other hand is very hard and it took some time to crack the glass open and release the ball. Second video is my favorite because it was so much fun melting crayons on sizzling hot ball's surface. At first the ball is so hot I can barely hold crayons with my fingers. That's why I dropped them half way melted. My fingers were burning and it was rather uncomfortable keeping them so close to the hot metal ball. Later during the video, the ball cooled down and it was not radiating so much heat and I was able to melt even those leftovers I dropped during first try. I used egg cup/holder to keep glowing ball in place during the experiment. Resulting colorful mixture on the table is really pleasant to my eyes and I hope you'll like it too. Red Bull was really eager to get out of the glass. As soon as I insert glowing hot ball it starts to boil. I guess it's because it contains a lot of sugar. Soon, almost all of the liquid leaves the glass, leaving just a few drops on the bottom around the ball.

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This is one of those experiments that's very easy to do and results are wonderful each and every time. You need milk, food color and dish soap. Take a large and shallow dish like a big plate or something and pour milk, no more than half inch deep. Add food dyes. For better results use more colors. In our experience, liquid colors work best and gel colors are not so good. Anyway, when you apply colors to milk surface, insert little cotton ball into the middle of the dish. Of course, first you have to soak that piece of cotton with dish detergent. Sit back and enjoy the show. This video of ours lasted over 20 minutes, but we decided to speed it up so we don't get boring to you. Milk is mainly made of water and the other big ingredient is usually fat. The dish soap bonds with the fat in the milk. This bond is very strong, so the water and food coloring are pushed out. The swirling effect is everything else moving around to make room for the dish soap and fat to bond.

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WARNING! Don't drink bleach! Don't drink beverages mixed with bleach or anything containing bleach! Conduct this experiment only in presence of grown up persons!

 Bleach. It's present in every home. Bleach is a chemical product, used to make materials whiter, change hair color to lighter and remove stains. It is typically a solution of sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide.  Bleaches generally react with many organic substances, other than the intended color pigments. They can weaken or damage natural materials like fibers, cloth, and leather, and intentionally applied dyes. For that reason, ingestion of the bleaching products, breathing of the bleach fumes, or contact with skin or eyes can cause health damage.  In this experiment we mix bleach with coffee, red wine, soft drinks - Coca Cola and Fanta, Guinness dark beer and Blackberry juice. Coca Cola and Fanta lose their color instantly, but other drinks not so fast. Interesting fact is that after 45 minutes, some beverages begin getting darker again.

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We have already seen what happens when you pour milk into Coca Cola Classic, but let's see what will happen when there isn't any sugar involved. Well, it is the same reaction, but I think original Coke was a little bit more transparent after 24 hours then Coca Cola Zero. Is it because of lack of sugar? I don't know.