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Candy Lightning
THIS EXPERIMENT MAY REQUIRE ADULT HELP.
BE SMART AND BE SAFE – ONLY DO THIS WITH ADULT PERMISSION.
Complete the following Science Experiment Challenge
Did you know that instances of miniature lightning can occur in your mouth when you bite on a hard candy? Would it not be fascinating if you could observe these light flashes? Life Savers® Wint O Green® mints might just be the tool we need to observe this science! Crush them, observe, and detect what makes the flashes visible. How many sparks can you see?
Prep Work:
Bring all of your materials to the room you will be using for this activity, then prepare to turn off the light.
Procedure
Bring all of your materials to the room you will be using for this activity, then prepare to turn off the light.
Procedure
- Note: The electrical discharges created in this activity are tiny and harmless. Although it is the same phenomenon, lightning in storms is created by huge discharges and is dangerous.
- Place one Life Savers mint between a pair of pliers and turn off the light. Wait a minute or two to let your eyes adjust to the dark, then watch the candy as you crush it.
Clean up:
Wash any sticky parts of the pliers with soapy water and then dry thoroughly. Clean up any candy fragments in your work area.
What Happened?
Did you see a light flash when crushing the sugar-containing Life Savers Wint O Green mints, but not when crushing the other types of Life Savers mints? This is expected. You need hard crystalline sugar as well as the artificial flavoring substance in the Wint O Green type to create the flash.
Crushing hard crystalline sugar creates static electricity, which can lead to a mini discharge — a kind of miniature lightning. The discharge is usually accompanied by ultraviolet (UV) light, which is a type of light humans cannot see. A fluorescent substance—a substance that absorbs UV light and release it again as light humans can see — can make the light flash visible, and that is exactly what the artificial flavoring substance in the Wint O Green mint does.
Although lots of hard crystalline structures emit UV light when crushed, the crystals in the sugar substitute do not. Therefore, there was no UV flash to see when crushing the sugar free Wint O Green mints.
Wash any sticky parts of the pliers with soapy water and then dry thoroughly. Clean up any candy fragments in your work area.
What Happened?
Did you see a light flash when crushing the sugar-containing Life Savers Wint O Green mints, but not when crushing the other types of Life Savers mints? This is expected. You need hard crystalline sugar as well as the artificial flavoring substance in the Wint O Green type to create the flash.
Crushing hard crystalline sugar creates static electricity, which can lead to a mini discharge — a kind of miniature lightning. The discharge is usually accompanied by ultraviolet (UV) light, which is a type of light humans cannot see. A fluorescent substance—a substance that absorbs UV light and release it again as light humans can see — can make the light flash visible, and that is exactly what the artificial flavoring substance in the Wint O Green mint does.
Although lots of hard crystalline structures emit UV light when crushed, the crystals in the sugar substitute do not. Therefore, there was no UV flash to see when crushing the sugar free Wint O Green mints.
the Super Silly Challenge
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