Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lava Lamp

How does a lava lamp work? And if you could make your own lava lamp what materials would you use?

13 comments:

.:*{briana alexis}*:. said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp lit from the bottom and containing a soft gel that moves and grows as the light heats it. I would put little things that float around in mine. I would put things like stars or glitter and cool colors in it. I would make mine blue and lime green and maybe pink

Anonymous said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp that has bubbles in it with the goopy stuff. It looks cool. I would use a bottle heated up with playdo and goo.

chad said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp lit from the bottom with a lamp. It has a soft get and when it is heated up it will start to float. You can also ad glitter and other things to make it sparkle.

!~*Miranda! :} said...

A lava lami is made of glas lit from a light heating it from the bottom. It contains a soft liquid gels type stuff and as the light will heats it. I would make it pink...with glitter floating around on the inside...with some other colors inside too...

travis s. said...

Lava lamps are pretty much a big or little glass jar with like water and colorful goo. You can buy them with different color goo, and some have sparkles in them and have different color lights. I would put blue goo in it with a red light.

Josh 41 said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp that has usually a type of substance in it that floats upf when it heats up and drops back down when it cools off. I would make one that is redd and i would use colors and find out what the gooey stuff is to use it.

taylorjo said...

A lava lamp is like a glass lamp It has bubbles in it and there is also gelly stuff in it also. The light in it heats all the lamp. I would wantmin to be purple and blue with pink bubbles flaoting around in it. You could also put glitter in it to.

Anonymous said...

A lava lamp has a bulb in the bottom which heats the glass container. In the lamp is a mix of water, wax, and carbon tetrachloride. The wax expands when it gets warm and becomes less dense, so it rises. To make a cheap one, maybe you could use a glass bottle, some wax, and water. Then heat the glass bottle- light at bottom or on stove.

Anonymous said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp that is lit from the bottom and it has soft gelly stuff that grows and moves around as the light source heats it. If I could make a lava lamp, I would put some gelly stuff in all different cool colors to make it pretty and i would put like sparkley things in it too!!

Jon said...

I think that it is just some oils that are in the lava lamps and they also have the wires and the glass so that you can see it. I would make one that could glow even if the room was light I would make it be blue and orange bubbles i don't really know why it just sounds kind of cool

pauly said...

a lava lamp is a glass lamp that is lit from the bottom. It has a gel in it that moves and grows as the light heats it. I would get a
lamp put water and gel in it to make a lava lamp.

Tina said...

It works by being lit by a light that is at the bottom. It has a soft get that moves around and changes shape as it gets heated up. If I made one I would have the gel be pink and possibly purple if it could be two colors. I would put some cool little shapes in it so that it would look cool while it is moving around.

Fuhrman#34 said...

A lava lamp is a glass lamp that is lit from the bottom of the bottle & has a gell inside that rises when it is heated, & sinks as it cools down. If i made one, it would be blue & white gel w/ a red light bulb.