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  • 5 years ago
This teacher wanted to show cool and easy science experiments. She performed the hidden letter experiment and used household items for it. The woman dipped a cotton swab into lemon juice and wrote on a piece of paper using the liquid. She waited for the paper to dry and held it above a candle as letters slowly appeared on it. The teacher mentioned the science behind it as well.
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00:00 At home science experiment. You need a piece of paper, a heat source, lemon juice, and a cotton swab.
00:09 We are making secret ink. So you take your cotton swab, dip it in your lemon juice, write a secret message on your paper,
00:19 let your message completely dry, hold it up over your flame. The carbon compounds in the lemon juice are breaking down
00:33 and this is what causes it to turn the brown color which is called oxidation. Science rocks!

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