Combining science, candy for one fun experiment
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IF YOU LOVE M&M'S ANDSCIENCE-- WE HAVE AN IDEA FORYOU.
KRISTEN KIRCHHAINE HASTHIS EXPERIMENT THAT IS FUNFOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.\Today we are going to do a funscience experiment - one of myfavorite kinds of scienceexperiments... one thatrequires candy!
In addition toyour M&Ms, you're going toneed some sort of a plate, itcould be a bowl or a pie tinwould work well for this,something that you can put alittle bit of water in.
Andit's good if you use regularM&Ms for this experiment, andthen you'll just need somewater.
The first thing you'lldo for this experiment is takea couple M&Ms out of thepackage and make sure thatthey have the M on them,that's really important forthis experiment.
So you'lltake a couple of the M&Ms andput them 'M' side up on yourplate.
It's good to grab acouple of different colors -that will make this experimentlook cooler.
And again, justmake sure that they're M sideup on your plate.
Next we'regoing to take our water, andwe're going to slowly pourthis onto our plate or dishwith our M&Ms. And what youneed to do is make sure thatyou have enough water on yourplate so it will completelycover the surface of your M&Msbecause it's important thatthe 'M' on the M&Ms is coveredup with the water.
Now we'regoing to watch and wait, it'sgoing to take about 20 minutesfor this experiment to work,to see what will happen withthe M's on the top of the M&M.As the minutes go by you canwatch what happens here, thedye, the coloring, separatesaway from the chocolate candy,the M's and that hardshellcandy coating will float tothe surface of our water.
Thereason for that is becausethat coating, and the Mitself, those are not watersoluble so they are not goingto dissolve in water.
And nowyou've learned something newabout M&Ms, and when you'redone, you may have leftoversyou can eat.
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