Candy Experiments

It was certainly time for the Halloween candy to exit the Miller home. So we did some candy experiments to help finish it off.

1. Sink or Float. I wonder which candy will sink and which will float? We unwrapped some candy and dropped it into a bowl of water to find out. We used Twix, peanut butter cup, gum, Tootsie Roll, Whoppers. Sweet Tarts and Bottle Caps

The only floating candy are the Whoopers. We talked about the air that is trapped inside the Whoopers which make it float.

Jake helps to keep a chart for us!


2. Dissolving in Hot or Cold Water I wonder if the candy will dissolve faster in hot water or in cold water? We filled 2 bowls....one with boiling water from the tea kettle and one with cold water from the tap. We used Now n Laters, Skittles and M & M's.

We found that the candy melted faster in the hot water. I had to look up the reason to find that molecules move faster when it’s hot so the candy in hot water dissolves much faster.

3. Floating S. Let's see if the S comes off the Skittles! This experiment was pretty cool. We put a few Skittles in a bowl of water. After a few minutes the S came off and floated to the top. If you enlarge the picture, you'll see it. This happened because the ink used the stamp the letter S on the Skittles does not dissolve in water. Cool, huh?

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