Did you know that uranine starts fluorescing again when the ice cubes melt?
Yes, I had to test that! :-D Why do I find this exciting? Because that means that a phase change of the water switches fluorescence as a tracer of that…
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Did you know uranine doesn’t fluoresce when frozen?
Something else I found out when checking on my ice cubes yesterday: I had frozen a second tray* with ice cubes dyed with uranine (you know, the green stuff I…
Experiment: Ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water
Explore how melting of ice cubes floating in water is influenced by the salinity of the water. Important oceanographic concepts like density and density driven currents are visualized and can…