Presentation+&Outcomes

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Debrief: For my methane mamba experiment, I have successfully captured the audience's attention with an experiment that they will remember. However, even though the demonstration was awesome and amusing, there were a few unfortunate side affects. Firstly no bubbles were being formed because the soapy solution was poured in the funnel before the gas was turned on, therefore making the water go backwards into the gas chamber which obviously is not a good thing. I fixed this by trying to pour the water in after the gas tap was open and releasing the propane. The next obstacle was that the gas-formed bubbles were too large causing them to have a higher density and therefore consequently the snake chain chose to sag and curl over. I will experiment to see what amount of soap would give the most promising results to maximize my experiment.

During the test run sequences I did not wet my wrists and started the flame from the top of the bubble stack to my hands so an explosive force rendered my wrist burnt and hurting. I changed this by directing my help to set fire to the bottom( where my hands are) and making sure to relay that it is important to wet both your hands and wrists. During the demonstration, the burning of the bubbles proved to be difficile because my staff/ friends/ associates were having a difficult time getting the splints to burn with just matches, also we did not realise until after that there were two windows open by our station and it was putting out the flames before burning the wood splint, making me and my staff seem incompetent. However we won the crowd back by engaging/ incorporating them into the presentation by allowing them to try the experiment.

There were a few technical difficulties with the flames on the day of recording with another associate who couldn't start the fire, but that's okay. the video is still mostly cool. After recording the video there was a problem when it was uploaded to my usb, I received only Gracie's and not my own, so on another day I uploaded to my flash disc. When attempting to add it to this page the document itself was too large, therefore would not upload. A tedious process but I eventually got it onto youtube ( after forgetting my username and password) and then I widgetted it into this page and Voila! movie.