• Question: what experiment do you like the best?

    Asked by deed535muns6 on 15 Oct 2025. This question was also asked by moas535muns6, yuck535muns6, spat532ecus87, surf532tods9, fora532tref36.
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      Caroline Roche answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      My favourite experiment is the Iodine Clock Experiment, where the liquid changes colour after a set period of time. There is another experiment called the Yellow Blue Switcheroo that does something similar, but I never got to do that one at school.

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      John Easton answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      Probably the one that gives me the insight I need to solve a problem. We run lots of different tests and collect lots of data to try and understand why things work in the way they do. That then helps us identify the next set of tests to run. And eventually, we get that glimmer of insight that helps us understand how to solve a problem that a customer is facing.

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      Martin McCoustra answered on 6 Nov 2025:

      Some scientists would say the ones that work. I think even if an experiment fails it is tailing you something useful and you learn from it.

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      Daniel Chernick answered on 7 Nov 2025:

      Quite a bit of my research was about this process called pyrolysis (where you’re essentially burning something in the absence of oxygen). Because of this, I spent a lot of time burning micrograms of samples (like tree barks, coconut husks and other left over plants) in a very safe and controlled way – and analysing the different chemicals that are made when the cell’s structures break down.

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      Luke Humphrey answered on 20 Nov 2025:

      Michelson Morley is cool. Deceptively simple experiment to determine our relative velocity compared to the universal aether, which ended up showing that there’s no such thing as a universal aether.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment

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