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This will work with vegetable oil and some, off-the-shelf run of the mill, Borosilicate Pyrex (what's used exactly in this demonstration, i'm not sure)
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We use baby oil.
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nice, and what kind of glass?
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Do you mix the oil with the water, or line the vessels please? And in what quantities?
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You can just use pure vegetable or baby oil
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We used Wesson oil. And here's a supporting reference:https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/disappearing-glass-rods …
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When you say “off the shelf” which shelf and what’s the product I’m looking for
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Works on all sorts of oils/liquids too, thank you for Sharing this! Something I never understood, but always tripped out when the dropper would disappear in the bottle
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How close do the refractive indices have to be? Is it an amazing coincidence that veg oil and pyrrx glass have such close n?
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we used baby oil when we did it at school, which I believe is some kind of mineral oil.
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