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Speaker 1: Hi Marshall Brain. Liquid motion lamps, which most people know

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Speaker 1: is lava lamps, have been around for decades, but have

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Speaker 1: you ever wondered how they work. It's actually the same

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Speaker 1: kind of thing that powers a hot air balloon. The

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Speaker 1: theory behind liquid motion lamps goes something like this. Inside

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Speaker 1: the lamp, you have two liquids, and these two liquids

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Speaker 1: are first of all, very close in density and second

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Speaker 1: insoluble in one another. Oil and water are insoluble in

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Speaker 1: one another, but oil and water have very different densities.

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Speaker 1: A volume of water weighs a lot more than the

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Speaker 1: same volume of oil. They won't work in a lava lamp,

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Speaker 1: so you search to find two liquids that are very

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Speaker 1: close in density and are insoluble like oil and water.

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Speaker 1: Now you apply heat to the bottom of the mixture

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Speaker 1: in a liquid motion lamp. That heat usually comes from

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Speaker 1: a lightbulb. The heavier liquid absorbs the heat, and as

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Speaker 1: it heats up, it expands. As it expands, it becomes

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Speaker 1: less dense. Because the liquids have very similar densities, The

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Speaker 1: heavier liquid is suddenly lighter than the other liquid, so

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Speaker 1: it rises. As it rises, it cools down, and that

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Speaker 1: to sink. This all happens in slow motion because heat

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Speaker 1: absorption is a fairly slow process, and the density changes

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Speaker 1: what makes a lava lamp so cool. Do you have

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