Root Beer Float Project

by thekid on March 6, 2010

This is a Root Beer float project:

Here is how to do it:

First the ingredients: A cup, a spoon, Root Beer, and vanilla ice cream.
Now the recipe. Put the cup on the table. Put in root beer. Add ice cream. Mix. It will go to the top with bubbles. Drink.
If you want to do it another way ask. I will tell you another way.

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

Ms. Mensing March 6, 2010 at 6:13 pm: What a good memory! Now, can you tell everyone WHY it foamed up the way it did and what gas was released?
Lucy March 6, 2010 at 9:22 pm: I forgot. I just know 1 thing. It is CO2.
Ms. Mensing March 8, 2010 at 1:56 am: CO2 is correct! Good job!

The foaming is due to nucleation, which basically means a process where something comes into being by growing outward from a disturbance at its center. The root beer is “disturbed” by the ice cream and starts foaming! I <3 Science!
Amanda @ Parentella March 19, 2010 at 6:51 pm: This was so much fuN! Thank you for writing about it! My 6 yo and I had a great time working on this together.
Alex T. March 27, 2010 at 1:39 am: Lucy your right it was a fun project!
thekid April 2, 2010 at 4:22 pm: Thanks alex!
thekid June 6, 2010 at 8:19 pm: Oh….OK. I will.
thekid June 6, 2010 at 8:20 pm: Thanks!http://thekidstory.com/wp-admin/index.php#comments-form

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