{"id":1970,"date":"2012-02-17T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2012-02-19T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:50:07","slug":"making-an-evaporograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Making an evaporograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/6892998461\/\" title=\"Untitled by dalelane, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: thin black solid\" hspace=10 vspace=10 align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7179\/6892998461_f1cc5ce4bd_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>It&#8217;s still half-term, so time for another random &#8220;what can I do with the kids that&#8217;s vaguely science-y and only needs stuff that we have around the house&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>We made an evaporograph. <\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;d never heard of it before, either. <\/p>\n<p>But it was pretty cool which is why I&#8217;m blogging it myself instead of leaving <a href=\"http:\/\/whatgracedid.wordpress.com\/\">Grace to write it up<\/a> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MXsoYYJl464?hd=1\">worked like this<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXsoYYJl464?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We put water in a plastic cup, and put a sandwich bag over the top, wrapping rubber bands around it to keep it in place. Then we left it for a while (while we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/f44_LzOKekQ\">play ballon racing<\/a>!) so the water would go to room temperature. <\/p>\n<p>Then it was ready to go. <\/p>\n<p>We briefly pressed something cold against the bag plastic. It made the water vapour in the inside of the cup condense, and collect on the underside of the plastic &#8211; leaving an imprint of whatever we pressed. <\/p>\n<p>We got the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/sets\/72157629361234319\/\">results with cold coins<\/a> (coins we&#8217;d left in the freezer for a bit).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fdalelane%2Fsets%2F72157629361234319%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fdalelane%2Fsets%2F72157629361234319%2F&#038;set_id=72157629361234319&#038;jump_to=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=109615\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fdalelane%2Fsets%2F72157629361234319%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fdalelane%2Fsets%2F72157629361234319%2F&#038;set_id=72157629361234319&#038;jump_to=\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It looked seriously impressive, but my camera sucks at macrophotography (or I do?) and struggled to focus on transparent plastic, so you&#8217;ll have to take my word for it. The photos really don&#8217;t do justice to the imprints we made!<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/sparkbangbuzz.com\/\">Spark, Bang, Buzz<\/a> where I got the idea for this from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still half-term, so time for another random &#8220;what can I do with the kids that&#8217;s vaguely science-y and only needs stuff that we have around the house&#8221;. We made an evaporograph. No, I&#8217;d never heard of it before, either. 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