Science Using Oil and Colored Ice Cube

We placed some colored ice cubes into cooking oil and watched them melt.  The results were just really, really beautiful.

Observing colored ice cubes melting in oil

Now Chuck didn't appreciate how the colorful bubbles looked like jewels, but he did enjoy swishing and moving the liquids around. 

Keep reading to see how we played with oil and water!

Needed Materials to observe oil and water

v  ice cube tray

v  food coloring

v  water 

v  clear container

v  cooking oil

v  fork (or spoon)

v  optional:  old clear soda bottle and funnel

Methods to observe oil and water

1.  Place a couple of drops of food coloring into your ice cube trays.  Then, fill them up with water.

2.  Place ice cube trays into the freezer.

3.  Once frozen, take ice cubes out.  Pour some cooking oil into your clear container.

4.  Drop your colored ice cubes inside.

5.  As the ice cubes melt, they create colorful water droplets that floated through the oil.  Polarity! Water is a polar molecule and electrically charged while oil is not.  Like molecules dissolve like, so the oil and water don't mix because they're not the same.

Note:  I used a fork to lift the ice cube up and down so that the water droplets would gracefully fall through the oil.

Once our colored ice cubes melted, I poured everything into an old soda bottle.Then, I capped the bottle and let Chuck shake it.  The different colored water droplets eventually mixed to become a uniform dark green color.  And the effects were still just as beautiful.

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