Comments on: Superglue and You, Be Careful Now

Superglue and You, Be Careful Now

fenriq — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:32:03 -0800

How To Save a Snowflake Forever
Theodore Gray, of the too-cool for words Periodic Table Table (discussed a long, long time ago here) gives step-by-step instructions on how to preserve a snowflake in superglue forever.

And much more coolness to explore. Smelting in a Microwave, anyone? Shrinking coins with magnets and electricity?

By: raedyn

raedyn — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:38:55 -0800

Too bad this wasn't posted a week or two earlier. There's still snow on the ground here, but we probably won't get anymore snowfalls - only rain. Still, I'll keep the superglue hnady incase there's a late storm.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:40:45 -0800

SCIENCE! Seriously, shrinking coins? Awesome.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:47:16 -0800

Oh no! I'll have to wait eight more months (or so) to try the snowflake thing.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:51:02 -0800

Sorry about the timing of the snowflake, I haven't seen snow since November but we've seen plenty of rain.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:20:25 -0800

spoiled Californinans /mildly jealous muttering

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:53:48 -0800

Microwave smelting is shit hot.

By: jlkr

jlkr — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:55:06 -0800

The shrinking coins thing is way cool. Somewhere I've got a soda can that's been shocked into an hourglass shape using the same idea. (He didn't have enough caps to hold the power needed to shrink a coin, so he was using cans for the demo.) It's quite noisy, too.

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:56:04 -0800

Neat post, fenriq - the link from the last link has a more in-depth explanation of the shrunken coin phenomenon and some other stuff (although the frames seem a little broken).

By: Roger Dodger

Roger Dodger — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:15:47 -0800

How To Save a Snowflake Forever Information that would have been much more useful to me last week!

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:26:47 -0800

I have a new hero.

By: oxonium

oxonium — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:12:46 -0800

I love, love, love theodore gray. Stephen Wolfram I can take or leave. If you havent checked out hte periodic table table lately, take another look, he keeps adding and adding, and if you like the popsci articles, he has a number of similar at home science features on the table that arent published anywhere else.

By: mzurer

mzurer — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:21:39 -0800

Way cool! Has anyone found a photo of an aluminum can that has been subjected to the magnetic field and "hourglassed?"

By: redhead

redhead — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:53:12 -0800

This is a great site. I've tried several times to save a snowflake, by using spay adhesive on a cold microscope slide. It never worked. I was so disappointed. Also as a science teacher I am always looking for something cool to do in lab and I really like the metal smelting. Thanks for posting.

By: jlkr

jlkr — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:16:53 -0800

Shrunken can pix here. (it's livejournal, sorry. My webhost is being cranky and not letting me upload, and it's well after business hours so I can't grumble at them until later.)

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:25:16 -0800

Ah, I recall the microwave smelting from so long ago, but I'd lost the link and forgotten about it! Thanks for brushing away some of the cobwebs in my head!

By: mzurer

mzurer — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:24:06 -0800

jlkr, thanks for the pix! Is that you?

By: jlkr

jlkr — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:03:03 -0800

No, that's one of the Mads I know. It's his project. He had some coins as well, but didn't have the capacitors to do those on site (he was doing these in the middle of nowhere, which is the safest place to get a half dozen (or more) Mads together).