| 2. | Pickle and Onion and Potato and... | | | Abstract of article on electrical conductivity in foods. Intended as an aid to science classroom demonstrations.
jchemed.chem.wisc.edu |
| 3. | Electric Veggies | | | Attributes the origins of the glowing pickle demo to the children of Catherine Ireland, a chemistry teacher from Manhasset High School of New York, in July of 1987.
www.geocities.com |
| 5. | Shady Hollow | | | Details how to build a glowing/flaming Pickle. Includes photos of the apparatus using heavy-gauge wire and glass jars as insulators, and a plugged-in pickle glowing only at one end.
members.tripod.com |
| 6. | Useless Information: The Electric Pickle | | | The tale of a teacher in search of compelling classroom demonstrations. Also discusses, but does not explain, a demonstration where he set his tie on fire to satisfy a student's repeated requests.
members.tripod.com |
| 7. | Glowing Pickle | | | Two enhancements to the standard demonstration apparatus: using a ground fault interrupt (GFI) to reduce the risk of electrocuting the demonstrator, and using potassium chloride (a dietary salt substitute) to produce a pink glow rather than the traditional sodium yellow. Also discusses the mechanism of the single-ended glow.
isaac.exploratorium.edu |
| 8. | Glowing Pickle | | | Short description of the science demonstration, with annotated bibliography of print references. From the Simon Fraser University Physics Department lecture demonstration index, classification PIRA 5D30.30.
www.sfu.ca |
| 9. | Lori's Chemistry Page | | | Discussion of various wavelengths of light, comparison of the colors of potassium, sodium, and lithium flames, and QuickTime movie of a demonstration of these concepts, by a high school chemistry teacher. Also has instructions on how to make a glowing pickle.
www.geocities.com |
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