Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Science experiment: Density in nature







In my general science book I was asked to do a science experiment about atoms and how they exist in every single thing. First I took a glass and filled it with ¼ full of vegetable oil, then ¼ cup of water, and then ¼ cup of dark corn syrup.





Then I put the rock in the glass and it sunk to the bottom, when I put the grape in it floated on top of the dark corn syrup, when I put the ice cube in it floated on top of the water but not on the vegetable oil. This is because of these items atoms. Atoms consist in every living thing and make up every living thing. For instance If you were to cut a quilt and find that it is made of tiny threads oven together to make the quilt, what's even more amazing is that each of those individual threads are made a even tinier atoms, isn't that amazing? So the rock's atoms were so densely packed together that it sunk beneath all the liquids, the cork's atoms were very loose so they only stayed on top of all the liquids, the ice cube's atoms were hard enough to let it float above the water but not sink all the way down to the bottom of the glass. This just another one of God's signs that he made us wonderfully.



























































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