Friday, January 07, 2005

You have money to burn?


You have money to burn?
Originally uploaded by Allan & Cheryl.

At Science World today, Michael volunteered my $5 bill for the demonstration where the money is coated in something and then set on fire. The kids and I have seen this done before and the money turns out fine in the end. Only not this time. This time she didn't shake the jar enough - the $5 wasn't completely covered and the bill actually burnt. Not all of it - but enough of it that she had give me a new $5 bill. So Michael ended up with a very interesting idea of the purpose of the experiment - "wow - she set it on fire and then it just turned into TWO just like magic. Only one had a big hole in it".

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