WALKING WATER

              WALKING WATER

Materials Required:

Tissues

Glasses

Food dyes

Water

Introduction :

     This is an experiment which explains the capillary action and how the water walks from one glass to another. 

Procedure:

Step -1:

              Take 5 glasses and pour water.                       into 1, 3 & 5 glasses and leave the                 other glasses empty .

Step-2:

Add different food colours in water in the glasses.

Step-3:

       

Fold the tissue paper and immerse the tissue paper half in the first glass connecting the second glass and so on.. 


Step-4:

             After few minutes we can                             observe the water being                                  absorbed     by the tissue.

Step-5:

     

After some time we can observe the water walking i. e; passing through tissues from the one glass to the other glasses i. e;  empty glasses.. 

Watch this video for understanding better: