• Question: What is your favourite experiment you have ever done?

    Asked by anon-198928 to Srinath, Natasha, Nana, Luisa, Gautam, Alex on 13 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Srinath Kasturirangan

      Srinath Kasturirangan answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      My MOST favorite science experiment – and it still fascinates me – is the upside down water glass science experiment 🙂

      Upside down Glass of Water Experiment

    • Photo: Natasha Dowey

      Natasha Dowey answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Shooting volcanic rocks with lasers to understand their chemistry!!

    • Photo: Alexander Allen

      Alexander Allen answered on 14 Mar 2019: last edited 14 Mar 2019 1:01 pm

      Stick around cause I’ve got a couple of examples (featuring explosions)! – One I have mentioned before which was on the hunt for a specific type of molecule on a surface. We found some lovely networks of this and I think these have to be some of the nicest images I have:

      We then got to look at the molecule close up and you could really see that the internal structure matched models of molecule that we had. This made me very excited:

      BUT

      You guys may want something a bit bigger so I have to recall that for a show we did. I dropped an urn of boiling water into 25 litres of liquid nitrogen to make a explosion and a cloud. Some highlights for you:

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