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When: Saturday, August 27, 10:00am-noon
Where: Las Cruces Academy, 212 S Downtown Mall, Las Cruces, NM 88001
This session is a reprise of a successful session held on July 2nd. Images from that session are available on Picasa. Here are some details:
- Candles
- What's burning? The vapor stream
- What''s burning - find the carbon, find the hydrogen
- Pure oxygen - the changes
- Carbon dioxide - the end
- Magnesium - yes, metal burns
- Flash paper
- No air needed!
- Making flash paper from paper
- Liquids burn by themselves without air
- Fire-breathing, the safe way
- Really fast burning - hydrogen and oxygen from water, and back
- What gives flames their colors? Adding colors
It's all safe, if you know what you're doing. Vince Gutschick, the demo and experiment leader, is a Ph. D. chemist who has survived all this and more, and so did his parents' house.
For more information, call (575)571-2269.
This event is first in a series of regular science sessions for the public sponsored by LCA Outreach. New sessions will run every two weeks, other than on holidays. We'll have the titles and dates posted under the Upcoming Events tab and the Science events page linked on the right side of this page; you can see descriptions of any event by clicking on the event title.