Article: Mysterious colors.(Science Corner)(Brief article)

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Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil into a mug. Add two drops each of red and blue food coloring. Stir until the food coloring breaks up into tiny drops. Pour the mixture into a glass of water and watch what happens.

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Science Corner

Mysterious Colors--This activity shows two ideas at work. The first is that water does not mix well with oil. When you stir drops of food coloring into the oil, they break up into droplets because food coloring is made up mostly ...

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