GLOW WITHOUT FLAME | Malayalam
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 16/10/2016

This is truly a golden experiment in chemistry. You will acetone, nichrome wire, a glass rod, some beakers and a burner. First pour acetone in a large beaker. Attach a small sheet of copper to nichrome wire and hang it from a glass rod. Hold the copper under a burner and heat it until it begins to glow. Now place the glass rod on the edge of the beaker so that the copper sheet hangs a little above the acetone. The copper must not touch the acetone. You will be surprised to see that in a little while the copper begins to glow. It shines, scintillates and begins to look great almost golden. This happens because of the acetone fumes coming in contact with the hot copper plate. As the temperature of the copper plate falls the glowing also fades. In the end you lift the glass rod out of the beaker you can see the copper plate become green and tarnished. 

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

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Credits:,Ashok Rupner,  Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar

Dubbed in Malayalam by Sunil K Kolangara