Child scientists mad about winter-themed experiments
CRANBERRY TWP — “What happens when you touch dry ice with your bare hands?” 9-year-old Ben Sammon asked Sydney Widdersheim, an instructor with Mad Science of Pittsburgh’s Winter Wonderlab program.
“Ooh! Does anybody know?” Widdersheim asked a room full of children at Cranberry Township Municipal Center. “That’s a great question, Ben.”
“You get frostbite!” several children said.
“You get frostbite!” Widdersheim confirmed. “Can you get frostbite from anything else?”
She held a freezing chunk of dry ice, or solid CO2, in her glove as a long trail of vapor poured from it. She asked all children in the room to raise their hands if they thought they could, then to raise their hands if they thought they couldn’t.
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