Ice Fishing
Aim/Purpose:
To see how salt can affect ice or react with ice
Materials
- Small paper cups, bowl or an ice cube tray
- Glass of water
- String (yarn or kite string works great)
- Small stick
- Salt
Steps/Method:
- Fill the cup or tray up with water and place it in the freezer. You can also use ice cubes from your freezer and skip this step.
- When the water is frozen, remove the ice from the cup or tray.
- Put the ice in the glass or bowl of water. The cube will bob up and down in the water and then float on the top.
- Place one end of the string from the fishing pole on top of the ice cube and sprinkle salt on the ice where the string is touching. Watch as the water melts slightly and refreezes.
- After about 10 seconds, carefully lift the ice cube out of the water with the fishing pole. You caught a fish (ice)!
My results:
Salt - The string stuck really well to the ice and pulled the ice cubes up out of the water
Sugar - The string didn’t stick to the ice cubes and none of them were pulled up out of the water. Some people started to see the ice cubes stick - but it then failed after that.
Flour - THe ice didn’t stick to the string at all
Pepper - The ice didn’t stick to the string at all
More salt than normal - The ice still got picked up by the string
Changing the variables
Don’t wet the string before hand
Use only a little salt
Using lots of salt
Try to catch the ice using sugar instead of salt
Try to catch the ice using pepper instead of salt
Try to catch the ice using flour instead of salt
Change the time period that you wait before trying to pick up the string.
Explanation - Why does it work?
When salt goes over ice it melts. In the ice fishing experiment, the ice melts a little bit and then refreezes. The string gets frozen to the pieces of ice to make it stick on because of the water around it.
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