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STEVE SPANGLER: You know,
certain things in this world
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Oil and water, dogs and
cats, Sonny and Cher.
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Giraffes and whales.
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Sharp objects and balloons.
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I know you haven't given a lot
of thought to this, but it is
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pretty fascinating.
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What if you could find a sharp
object and a balloon, and make
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them live in perfect harmony?
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I'm pretty excited.
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I think you will be, too.
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I'm Steve Spangler, and I'm all
about making science fun.
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For the last 20 years, I've
been teaching ways to turn
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ordinary science experiments
into unforgettable learning
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I have an amazing team who will
do whatever it takes to
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affect the way people
think about science.
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And to do that, I live
by one motto.
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Make it big, do it right,
give it class.
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Remember that episode where we
took the pencils, and we put
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the pencils through
the bag like this?
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We called it the
leak proof bag.
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The secret was the fact that
this plastic bag is a polymer.
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A polymer's nothing more than
this long chain of molecules,
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and we literally put the pencil
through this long chain
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of molecules, and it sealed
itself back around, keeping
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the water from leaking out.
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The question today is could
you do the same thing with
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another polymer, a
rubber balloon?
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See, balloons are made out of
latex, and latex is nothing
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more than a long chain
of molecules.
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If we wanted to do the same
thing with the pencil through
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the bag, you could,
but there's a
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problem with the balloon.
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It's under so much stress,
and so much pressure.
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See, most of the time we don't
think about blowing up a
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bubble, and think about the
way that the molecules are
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oriented here in the balloon.
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We just think of blowing a
balloon up, tying it off, and
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realizing that any sharp object,
like this cooking
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skewer, and the balloon are
two things that don't mix.
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See, when we get close here,
these strands of molecules are
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stretched so thinly that just a
mere presence of that sharp
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object, and it pops.
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Let's do it again, but this time
we use a clear balloon.
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This is a 9 inch, clear party
balloon that you would find,
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like a helium balloon.
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But by using a clear balloon,
you get to see some of the
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