woodchurch science

I know what you think, it’s a science lecture, and you’ve probably remembered science lectures to be boring, boring, boring! But this science lecture was different. It was brilliant.

Now when it first started, I didn’t know what to think. Would it be boring, would it be interesting, but like I said, it was brilliant. First of all, they lectured us on a bit of science like most lectures do, and then, it started to get good. The lecturers (the people giving the lecture), shook up a closed bottle of water without telling us what chemicals were inside, the water turned blue! What a surprise! But the next experiment they shown us was booming. like before, they gave us a little lecture about that they were going to make a flame near an object and watch the surprising results. The object exploded! And not just a little explosion, it was a massive explosion! And now enough of that, now on to the next part. This time, there were no explosions, but instead some useful information. Did you know, the bombardier beetle can shoot fire out of its bottom? So when any beetle eating ants come along, lets just say they will feel the burn! Afterwards, the lecturers shown us a little something called liquid nitrogen. It is a freezing liquid at a whopping -196°C! It’s alright if you get sprayed with it, it evaporates in a second! But when you put something in a vat of it, the matter becomes a totally different matter. If you put something in it, it freezes and can be smashed in half on a table!

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