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HOM E LAB E X C I T I N G E X P E R I M E N T S F O R B U D D I N G S C I E N T I S T S 001_Half_title.indd 1 26/02/2016 17:34 Project art editor Laura Gardner Project editor Ashwin Khurana Designer Nicola Erdpresser Design assistant Sean Ross Editor Ann Baggaley Managing editor Lisa Gillespie Managing art editor Owen Peyton Jones Producer, pre-production Gillian Reid Producer Mary Slater Jacket design development manager Sophia MTT Managing jackets editor Saloni Singh Jacket editor Claire Gell Senior jacket designer Mark Cavanagh Jacket designer Suhita Dharamjit Picture researcher Myriam Megharbi Publisher Andrew Macintyre Associate publishing director Liz Wheeler Art director Karen Self Design director Phil Ormerod Publishing director Jonathan Metcalf Writer and consultant Jack Challoner Photographer Dave King First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Dorling Kindersley Limited 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL Copyright © 2016 Dorling Kindersley Limited A Penguin Random House Company 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 001–282970–July/2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0-2412-2844-9 Printed in China A WORLD OF IDEAS: SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW www.dk.com 002-003_Imprint_title.indd 2 26/02/2016 17:45 R O B E R T W I N S T O N HOM E LAB E X C I T I N G E X P E R I M E N T S F O R B U D D I N G S C I E N T I S T S 002-003_Imprint_title.indd 3 26/02/2016 17:45 CONTENTS 6 Foreword 8 FOOD FOR THOUGHT 38 AROUND THE HOME 10 Sticky slime 40 DNA model 14 Invisible ink 44 Paper planes 18 Baked Alaska 52 Sensational speakers 24 Monster marshmallows 56 Rubber band planets 28 Sugar crystal lollipops 62 Dazzling kaleidoscope 34 Lemon battery 66 Balloon rocket car 74 Sturdy bridge 80 Dancing snake 86 Breathing machine 004-005_Contents.indd 4 26/02/2016 16:25 92 WATER WORLD 128 THE GREAT OUTDOORS 94 Density tower 130 Jungle in a bottle 98 Waterwheel 134 Fantastic fossils 104 Soap-powered boat 138 Shoebox plant 108 Fabulous filter 144 Beautiful Sun prints 114 Stunning stalactite 148 Erupting volcano 118 Fizzing bath bombs 154 Wind catcher 124 Icy orbs 158 Glossary 160 Index 004-005_Contents.indd 5 26/02/2016 16:25 FOREWORD I am often asked what made me want to be to see whether I could get my planes to go further a scientist. I was about seven or eight years by altering their wings in different ways. You can old when I realized that science was fascinating, try this for yourself – or perhaps go the extra and what most interested me was doing my own mile and figure out how to get your plane to do experiments. I clearly remember the excitement a loop-the-loop! I felt when I realized that I could write secret messages using juice as an invisible ink. Seeing my All of the experiments in this book are a lot of fun, words appear when I heated paper was something but it is also important to play it safe. None of the I still find slightly weird and a bit of a thrill. projects is dangerous, but some of them will require an adult's help. For example, you'll use an Making your own invisible ink is just one of the oven when cooking a baked Alaska, and hot water 28 amazing experiments in Home Lab. You will also is needed to make sugar crystal lollipops. It is learn how to make different types of paper plane also important to keep your workplace clean and find out why an object that's heavier than air and to wash your hands before and after some doesn't just fall to the ground. As a child, I liked experiments, especially if they include food. 006-007_Foreword.indd 6 17/03/2016 11:39 Science depends on experimentation – from afraid to make little changes, as that's how science coders working on Internet security to medical advances. If you have any setbacks, don't see breakthroughs in cancer research. So it may seem these as failures. They're opportunities to look at surprising that most scientists two thousand years the experiment again, using a fresh approach. ago preferred to just sit around and discuss their theories. In fact, it is really only in the last four I hope you really enjoy this book. And remember, hundred years or so that scientists began to when you try out these experiments you will be conduct experiments. The pioneering astronomer exploring some of the very things that made Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study Jupiter, me want to become a scientist. to count its moons, and record their movements. In the same way, when you try any of the projects in Home Lab, not only will you learn about the world around you, you'll also embark on a scientific ROBERT WINSTON journey, just like Galileo – and me! And don't be 006-007_Foreword.indd 7 26/02/2016 18:02 008-009_Food_for_thought_Chapter_opener.indd 8 26/02/2016 17:35
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