Dry ice Halloween fun with Mad Science

All right. Happy Halloween. We are celebrating. We've got Miss Andrea Cook here joining us for Mad Science. Our favorite holiday. Yes. Yeah, just saying. We are going to be spooky, of course. Mad Science, dry ice, of course. So first of all, each of us has a little bucket situation. And you have a... Cup that is blue and purple so I put a little bit of the dry ice in there and now dry ice is just speaking of the whole thing if you want dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide gas and the cool thing about it. No pun intended or pun intended is that it is 109 degrees below zero negative 109 Fahrenheit. Oh, you know what? I gave you some eyeballs. Why don't you drop some eyeballs in there too? Why not? My gosh, my grandma who doesn't love eyeballs. My great grandma would add eyeballs to like soup and stuff in the Halloween. See? My dad also loves eyeballs. Maybe it's an Indiana thing. Okay, Hoosiers unite. So it sublimates, it does not melt, because it goes from a solid back to a gas, which is what makes it extra spooky. We are wearing safety gear because of the extreme temperature, but I give each of you a little black plate. You can move it closer to you with a small piece of ice. So what we're gonna do is, first of all, grab a spoon and just press it up against there in any way you want. I pick one up. Oh, that's nice. Oh, yes. It's like vibrating. Yes, okay, that temperature difference, but then it stops, right? That's why I gave you two. All right, so it's gonna make that sound as long as the spoon stays about room temperature. Don't you love it? Like nails on a chalkboard. Get it right in the microphone. So, that's one fun thing. All junior scientists love that. Wow, you're good at it. She is. Take a quarter, and this may be hard, I have tiny scientist hands and big gloves, but you want to take the quarter, don't drop it, gravity, and you're going to push it into the ice. We're going to make George Washington shiver. Just kind of give it a little push. I dropped it. It's okay, I do too. Sorry. It's okay. And then I tilt it. Okay, I... Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. There we go. It's okay. I also have a bigger piece. No worries. Don't. So you put it in there, squish it, it warms up a little bit of the ice so it starts to sublimate, and then the gas moves around the coin. I can't. No worries. Everyone look at yours. Everyone look at mine. I've done it two ways. Oh, professional. She's trying to steal my job. She's wiggling. Oh, yeah. I can't get this, you guys. There's mine. What? Yes. All right. Now, one of my favorite things to do is... It's making a noise. Oh, yeah, that's not me. That's the science, not the scientist. I'm a scientist. I like to trap that gas. Now, you've got to be safe when you're trapping the gas, okay? Okay. Which sounds weird. But gases are like children. They always want to go from areas that are crowded to areas that have more room. So hold on. I'm taking my gloves off for a moment because I'm not touching ice. Put this on here. Whoa! Whoa! So the gas is going out, filling the glove. It's giving me anxiety. Is it going to pop? I know. I'll just let it go. That's cool. Okay, that was good. Okay, thanks. That was really fun. Yeah. But you've got to be safe with this, obviously, and make sure my hands are not touching the ice. And we've got the goggles. And goggles, yeah. Oh, cool. Now. You can put a balloon on top, but these are things to do, junior scientists and senior scientists, but gotta be super safe, but kids love it, it goes on for a while, but I have Everyone loves the bubbles. Do you want to do bubbles? So you each have a beaker. I went ahead and put some dish soap in there. Dish soap is best. And then you're going to take the little, you'll want to leave it on the tray. And take the little cup of dry ice and pour it in. Just dump the whole thing. And then you'll want to take your gloves off. Because you can touch the bubbles, it's okay. Yeah, go ahead, you can grab them. Oh, you can grab them? Yeah, grab them. Stop it. Go for it. I like the sound effects. That's good. All right. Let me release this gas real quick. Sorry. You got to let it out. Don't keep it in there. Don't keep it in. All right, so then the gas, the carbon dioxide gas, gets trapped in the bubbles. So when you pop the bubbles, the gas comes out. It's pretty fun. Well, you know what we could do? We could high-five. Yay! Yes, so super fun. You just got to be extra safe and follow the rules, which is not hard. You want to keep your gloves on, insulated gloves. But we do that for you. So we can come to you, do a part of a birthday party or big stage show. We're super busy all day today. Bring in the dry ice and the fun. Yes. You like it, right? It's cool. I love it. Yes. Oh, look at yours. I know. Oh, wow. I may have given myself more dry ice. Can I put this dry ice in there? Yeah, go for it. Of course you can. And we have a little saying in mad science, we never put soap in a bucket because if we dump it in, well, then it'll be everywhere. Which sounds like it would be fun, but not when you're trying to clean up a mess afterwards. That's very valid. And on that note, thank you so much for coming in and spending Halloween with us, having a spooky-dooky time. Make sure you stay with us because coming up next, we're going to show you more.