Excerpted from Pop Bottle Science by Lynn Brunelle pushes and pulls 19 can yOU make pepper Run away FROrm your Finger? GH WHAT DO YOU NEED? = Your Pop Botile (with the top removed) = Water = Black pepper A bar of soap WHAT DO YoU Do? 4. Fill your Pop Bottle with water. 2. Sprinkle black pepper on the water's surface. 3. Touch the middle of the water on the surface with your fingertip, Nothing will happen (other than a wet fingertip) 4. Now rub your fingertip on the bar of soap. 5. Touch the middle of the water on the surface with your soapy fingertip. What happens to the pepper CES $ now? $14.95 ISBN:978-0-761 1-2980-6 : WHAT'S GOING ON? 20 pop bottle science ; WHAT DO YOU NEED? = Two pop bottle tops = Water dropper w Water 1 Dishwashing detergent 1. Take two dry pop bottle caps and place them flat side up on a counter, 2. Fill your water dropper. 8. Drip a drop of water on the cap. 4. How many drops of ‘water can you fit on this first cap? 5. Now puta single drop of liquid detergent. on the other cap. Then wipe the detergent of 6. How many drops of water can you fit on Q this second cap? you dripped drops on the first cap, the drops of water stuck together due to the natural cohesion of water molecules You could keep adding drops until there ‘Was too much water and the surface tension ‘was broken. ‘The film of detergent on the second cap makes it harder for drops of water to form in a group. Fewer drops can be added because soap prevents water molecules from joining together and forming surface tension.