Oil Water Bottle Experiment

Even if you try to shake up a bottle of half oil and half water the oil just breaks up into smaller droplets but it doesn t truly mix with the water.

Oil water bottle experiment. It does not color the oil at all. The molecules of water can t mix with the molecules of oil. This is done by adding soap to an oil and water mixture. You only need three simple ingredients a minute to set it up and you will hav.

For this experiment students learn the process of emulsion. In this experiment kids will learn about how water and oil molecules have different properties and what happens when you try to mix them in a wave bottle. 2 empty water bottles or gatorade bottles oil vegetable or canola antacid tablets like alka seltzer food coloring 2 colors water. Pour about 2 tablespoons of the coloured water along with the 2 tablespoons of cooking oil into the small soft drink bottle.

It s just mesmerising to watch how colour patterns formed in this experiment. Combining oil and water. These are some of the pointers you can discuss with your kids or students while working on these projects. Fill the rest the way with water until about 2 inches from the top.

To make oil and water discovery bottles you will need. My girls both adored making these. Fill each empty bottle about of the way full with oil. The difference between the two bottles results from adding dish detergent to the oil water soap bottle.

Put the bottle back down and have a look it may have seemed as though the liquids were mixing together but the oil will float back to the top. A bottle ours are glass but for younger children plastic would be a better choice for obvious reasons a funnel. Also food coloring only mixes with water. Water and oil don t mix.

Water oil experiment. You can find out why liquids layer by density in our density experiment. The detergent molecules can form bonds with both water and oil molecules. Secondly the oil always floats on top of the water because the oil has a lower density than water.

No matter how much you shake your bottle oil and water will go back to creating two different layers. Screw the lid on tight and shake the bottle as hard as you can. How to make an oil and water wave bottle the wave bottle works because instead of the oil and water mixing when the bottle is shaken the oil and water shift around each other creating a. This is a different activity inspired by that same experiment and is very quick easy and interesting for kids.

Add a tablespoon of dish soap to the oil and water. Detergent is different again.