First cool science thing you learned/saw

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What was it and hwen ?

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Mine was the screaming jelly baby experiment. You burn a jelly baby with your bunson burner and it screams i can't remember why but i rembercan still hear the screaming in my nightmares. haha. ONLY JOKING

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Anamolous expansion of water (when cooled past 4 degree C)- reason why ice floats on water. Did not have a fridge at home - so really had not thought much about ice floating on water, even though may have seen it couple times while walking past restaurants. In 7th standard science class, leasrned this. Then observed it in real life. Wow moment

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mine was a mangetic pen floating and boy was it magic

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when we made water in the classroom with a "BANG!" haha

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Years ago when i learned about the effects of a certian element... it made me value both science and human life and fear both of them in equal measure.

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The speed of light.
"ek laakh chhiyasi hazaar meel fi sekind".

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Wave-particle duality, suddenly E=mc^2 became as clear as day.

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I think it was one of those wave chapters in which I learned prisms and their effect of splitting light.
Also another: saw and then made a kaleidoscope..that was so cool!! :)

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.. the litmus paper test and how the change of colours look awesome as a kalaidascope of c****olours:mudhosh:.. I was about 15 methinks.. a long time ago:hinna:

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I was blown away by the static electricity thing :smiley: balloon + hair?

I was grossed out when we first disected a sheep’s heart. Good thing I chose science, not medicine :no:

Most recently, I’m intrigued by the operation of some of the instruments I’ve been training on in the lab. So sophisticated, it’s amazing! Engineers get a bit of credit for that too!

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Umm..maybe the baking soda volcano thing

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Lol I was just about to post that.

Also that thing where you make holes at the bottom of a can and one near the top, and when you fill it with water and seal the hole at the top water stops flowing out the bottom holes. A kid did it at show and tell and I thought it was pretty cool.

Another science thing I really liked was when I made a periscope as a science project, it was pretty cool and I was using it to peer around corners for days.

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one word - magnets!

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Gravity - as a toddler, when a ball I threw up in air came back down :D

Understood the science behind it years later.

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let me guess... explored the intricacies of fluid mechanics via peeing into the wind as well?

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Did not give a crap about science till I learnt about the Special Theory of Relativity in 9th grade. Totally blew my mind off.

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I hate magnets. You would too if you took a brand new magnet set to school and the Nigerian guy who sat next to you in Arabic class asked you to hand it over or else :naak:

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:omg: Ace that made me choke on my drink dude. :biggthumb:

I remember first science lesson when they let us loose with Bunson Burners bad idea… some fella thought it would be funny to put a lighter by the gas tap… He made a classroom flamethrower… :hehe:

But that was nothing as out Teacher went to sort him out another kid turned the middle of his Bunson burner and the flame shot up catching the teachers tie… :rotfl:

Three students got expelled on the one afternoon… funniest **** that ever happend at school… :omg:

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We used to do that with deodorants. Good mosquito annihilator.