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Density Tower Experiment

The document provides instructions for creating a density tower experiment using various liquids and food coloring. Glass jars or funnels are filled starting with light corn syrup on the bottom, then condensed milk, then water mixed with blue food coloring, then vegetable oil, then rubbing alcohol mixed with red food coloring, and finally dishwashing liquid on top. Tipping the jar when adding each new layer prevents disturbing the layers below. The finished tower separates the liquids by density, with the denser liquids sinking below less dense ones.

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Density Tower Experiment

The document provides instructions for creating a density tower experiment using various liquids and food coloring. Glass jars or funnels are filled starting with light corn syrup on the bottom, then condensed milk, then water mixed with blue food coloring, then vegetable oil, then rubbing alcohol mixed with red food coloring, and finally dishwashing liquid on top. Tipping the jar when adding each new layer prevents disturbing the layers below. The finished tower separates the liquids by density, with the denser liquids sinking below less dense ones.

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Glass

Funnel
Spoons
Light Corn Syrup
Condensed Milk
Dishwashing Liquid
Water, with Blue Food Color (FC)
Vegetable Oil
Rubbing Alcohol, with Red FC
1. Begin by pouring the into the bottom of the jar.
The layer should be about an inch tall.

2. Then, add in a little , also about the same


amount.

3. Next, pour the into the glass using a funnel


to layer on top of the milk.

For best results – each time you pour a new liquid into the glass, tip the glass to the
side slightly and pour the liquid down the inside wall of the jar. This will keep the pouring liquids
from disturbing the liquids already in the density tower.

4. Mix a few drops of into some


and gradually spoon it into the glass. This will form your fourth layer.

5. Add a few drops of to the


. Spoon out the alcohol into the glass to create the fifth layer.

6. Top off the with


You can color this with food coloring too if you wish.

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If you use a , instead of a glass, place a lid tightly on the jar, so that none of the
contents will leak out.

Kids can have fun the jar and , and then


watch as the layers of the tower separate themselves once the jar has been placed face up
again on a flat surface.

, as this may cause some of the layers to combine.


An object’s is calculated by dividing its
(weight) by its (the amount of space it occupies).
Liquids have density too.

This experiment use several different types of liquid to


determine which is more dense. are less
dense than so they on top of them.

For a density tower to work you also need to use the right
types of liquids – those in neighbouring layers must be
-that is, they do not mix.

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