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Melting metal in your hand: Gallium
Above, part 1. And here’s part 2, where you’ll catch more action: This is Gallium, an element with the symbol Ga and the atomic number 31. It’s a silvery metallic metal that looks like Mercury, but...
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Melting gallium spoon: It melts as you stir with it
Kids, remember Gallium from this video? Then let’s watch this spoon stir. This spoon made from 99.998% pure gallium metal melts at 86F/30C! Great for demonstration purposes (chemistry/physics classes)....
View ArticleMelting backwards: Frozen
Frozen by Maxim & Katia Mezentsev, with music by Nebulo, could probably continue for another minute. Not only is it fun to watch, but it’s an interesting DIY project: freeze objects in blocks of...
View ArticleThe Birth of a Snowflake (A snowflake melts in reverse)
What if puddles turned into snowflakes? If they did, it might look something like this: YouTuber Armand9x filmed this snowflake melting and then ran it backwards to create The Birth of a Snowflake, a...
View ArticleHow is an ice sculpture made? SciFri investigates frozen water
What’s So Cool About Frozen Water? Art and science come together to uncover some ice-expert-level details in this 2012 Science Friday report. Shintaro Okamoto, founder of NYC’s Okamoto Studio, and...
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Glass artist Kiva Ford makes handmade scientific & artistic glassware
For art or for science, glass artist Kiva Ford loves to make precise, custom vessels, beakers, sculptures, and more with glass. In this 2011 Etsy Handmade Portrait, Ford describes his work in...
View ArticlePlastic Injection Molding
Bill [Hammack] details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding. He describes its history and then reveals the intricate details of the process. He shows viewers where to...
View ArticleDad teaches his daughter how to cast a ring from scrap pewter
When Ivan Owen‘s 10 year old daughter wanted to learn how to make her own metal ring, including designing it and melting down the scrap pewter metal, the Bellingham, Washington-based artist and maker...
View ArticleHow chocolate Easter Eggs are made (for us & for the Queen)
How do you make a giant chocolate Easter Egg for Her Majesty the Queen of England? The Telegraph went behind the scenes with Bill Keeling at Prestat, Purveyors of Chocolate in 2015 to document the...
View ArticleTurning a brick of melted crayons on the lathe
What can you make when you melt 256 crayons? Peter Brown of Shop Time experimented with making a Rainbow Crayon Bud Vase on the lathe. Side effect: Shredded crayon bits everywhere. Watch related how...
View ArticleWater in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held...
View ArticleThe Birth of a Snowflake (A snowflake melts in reverse)
What if puddles turned into snowflakes? If they did, it might look something like this: YouTuber Armand9x filmed this snowflake melting and then ran it backwards to create The Birth of a Snowflake, a...
View ArticleHow is an ice sculpture made? SciFri investigates frozen water
What’s So Cool About Frozen Water? Art and science come together to uncover some ice-expert-level details in this 2012 Science Friday report. Shintaro Okamoto, founder of NYC’s Okamoto Studio, and...
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Glass artist Kiva Ford makes handmade scientific & artistic glassware
For art or for science, glass artist Kiva Ford loves to make precise, custom vessels, beakers, sculptures, and more with glass. In this 2011 Etsy Handmade Portrait, Ford describes his work in...
View ArticlePlastic Injection Molding
Bill [Hammack] details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding. He describes its history and then reveals the intricate details of the process. He shows viewers where to...
View ArticleDad teaches his daughter how to cast a ring from scrap pewter
When Ivan Owen‘s 10 year old daughter wanted to learn how to make her own metal ring, including designing it and melting down the scrap pewter metal, the Bellingham, Washington-based artist and maker...
View ArticleHow chocolate Easter Eggs are made (for us & for the Queen)
How do you make a giant chocolate Easter Egg for Her Majesty the Queen of England? The Telegraph went behind the scenes with Bill Keeling at Prestat, Purveyors of Chocolate in 2015 to document the...
View ArticleTurning a brick of melted crayons on the lathe
What can you make when you melt 256 crayons? Peter Brown of Shop Time experimented with making a Rainbow Crayon Bud Vase on the lathe. Side effect: Shredded crayon bits everywhere. Watch related how...
View ArticleWater in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held...
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Melting a metal alloy spoon in some tea
Imagine stirring your tea and having your spoon disappear into your tea… melting quickly away. When one of Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff’s Periodic Videos viewers sent a metal alloy, Field’s Metal, to...
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