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Water Gel Crystals - "Ghost Crystals"
Water Gel Crystals - "Ghost Crystals"
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Water Gel Crystals - 4 oz. (114g)
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Placed in water these crystals absorb many hundreds of times their own weight and become virtually invisible.
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These crystals are made from a super-absorbent polyacrylamide polymer. Placed in water they absorb many hundreds of times their own weight and become virtually invisible. Tie a thread around an expanded crystal, drop it into a glass of water and your crystal seems to disappear! For an additional effect, push a toothpick through the suspended gel. The toothpick seems to mysteriously float in the center of the suspended loop of thread. The index of refraction of the expanded crystals is almost identical to that of water. Can be colored by placing them in a mixture of water and food coloring.
Click here for html version of Water Gel Crystals lesson ideas.
Growing Cubes
Same hydrophilic polymer, but made into different cubic shapes that can be stacked. 50 grams (approx. 290 cubes)
Instant Snow Polymer
When this granular white powder is added to water, it instantly expands to 40 times its original volume, producing a snow-like material.
Magic Sand
Sand that repels water and never gets wet!
Water Gel Spikes
When placed in water these 1" long, 1/4" thick clear, colorless spikes expand to several inches with a corresponding gain in mass as they absorb water.
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