Fire, oxygen and an egg

Yesterday we did a science experiment with fire, oxygen, and a hard boiled egg.

Burning uses up oxygen causing a vacuum. Since there is more air pressure outside of the bottle, the egg gets pulled into the jar.

Our jar was too small. It didn't hold enough oxygen to burn the candle long enough to completely pull the egg in. For best results use a glass milk bottle.

Our Garden

Hi readers, this is our fig tree. It has tons of figs!

This is an annual which means it only lives one year, but it came back for another.

Here is our pear tree. The pears are getting bigger.

This is our zucchini plant. We harvested two zucchinies a couple of days ago.