Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Incredible Shrinking Bottle

What do you get when you fill a plastic 2 liter bottle with hot water? A really neat science experiment!

All you need is an empty 2 liter bottle and some hot water. You fill the bottle halfway, shake the bottle, and watch it shrink over the next 5 minutes.

We started with a two liter bottle and heated enough water to fill the bottle halfway.
The moment the hot water touched the bottle it started to shrink! The kids thought this was really neat.



All in all, the bottle shrunk to nearly the size of an individual soda bottle.

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