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it’s easy. just take 100ml of water and 100ml of alcohol. The alcohol
must be as pure as possible. If you can’t get this at a pharmacy, vodka
will do but as it is only 45°, results will be less spectacular.
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A kitchen measure is perfect but chemistry graduated test tubes are more accurate of course.
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Finally you pour the contents of the first test tube into the second.
No you’re not seeing things there’s less than 200 ml. |
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Buzzy explains
Well uh, what shall i say ? Let’s see. if you take a bucket of sand and mix it with a bucket of marbles, the volume is not exactly equal to the sum of the volumes of both buckets. What ? you think it’s normal ?
good. this simple explanation means I can hide my ignorance in this matter. Molecules don’t behave in the same way as marbles or grains of sand. If perchance a reader has a more satisfying explanation to put for ward, please let me have it !