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  2. Jeffrey Vinokur - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Vinokur was born in 1990 to Russian immigrant parents. He attended Montvale Public Schools. [18] His early interest in science was fueled by doing kitchen science experiments in elementary school, which later progressed to creating a chemistry lab in his parents' garage at age 14, where he would do amateur experiments like making sodium metal from household supplies. [18]

  3. Flour Babies - Wikipedia

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    Flour Babies is a day school novel for young adults, written by Anne Fine and published by Hamilton in 1992. It features a group "science experiment" in a classroom full of underachieving students: "When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while ...

  4. Screaming jelly babies - Wikipedia

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    The experiment is practised in schools around the world and is often used at open evenings to show the more engaging and entertaining aspects of science in secondary education settings. [2] [3] The experiment shows the amount of energy there is in a piece of candy. Jelly babies [4] or gummy bears [5] are often used for theatrics.

  5. Mother of vinegar - Wikipedia

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    The vinegar is created over the course of 13 years. [2] Mother of vinegar can also form in store-bought vinegar if there is some residual sugar, leftover yeast and bacteria and/or alcohol contained in the vinegar. This is more common in unpasteurized vinegar, since the pasteurization might not stabilize the process completely. While not ...

  6. Turbatrix aceti - Wikipedia

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    Turbatrix aceti (vinegar eels, vinegar nematode, Anguillula aceti) are free-living nematodes that feed on a microbial culture called mother of vinegar (used to create vinegar) and may be found in unfiltered vinegar. They were discovered by Pierre Borel in 1656. [1]

  7. Sodium bicarbonate - Wikipedia

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    An educational science experiment known as the "Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano" uses the acid-base reaction with vinegar acid to mimic a volcanic eruption. The rapid production of CO 2 causes the liquid to foam up and overflow its container.

  8. Cymatics - Wikipedia

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    Hooke ran a bow along the edge of a glass plate covered with flour, and saw the nodal patterns emerge. [ 3 ] The German musician and physicist Ernst Chladni noticed in the eighteenth century that the modes of vibration of a membrane or a plate can be observed by sprinkling the vibrating surface with a fine dust (e.g., lycopodium powder , flour ...

  9. Vinegar tasters - Wikipedia

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    The Vinegar Tasters (三酸圖; 'three sours'; 嘗醋翁; 'vinegar-tasting old men'; 嘗醋圖, 尝醋图) is a traditional [clarification needed] subject in Chinese painting, which later spread to other East Asian countries. The allegorical image represents three elderly men tasting vinegar. The identity of the three men varies.