Children explore their environment

Experiments with soft drink cans

Drink cans are very useful packagings. Their metals can be re-molten.
New sheets are made from these cans. This is called Recycling.
Everywhere you will find empty beer and soft drinks canswhich are thrown away.
Cans are not only useful for recyling but als for reusing:
Five of the following experiments you can do with the help of your parents.
 Write me an E-mail if you invent more soft drinks can experiments.

.......1. Soft drink cans of  2 different metals
..... 2. Soft drink cans of Al and of Fe in the flame
............3. Different rusting of soft drink cans of Al and of Fe
.4. Collapsing soft drink cans
.............5. Explosion of oxyhydrogen gas in an OPEN (!) soft drink can (only by a chemistry teacher in school!)
.........6. Electicity from two different soft drink cans



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