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Glowing Pickles Experiments Educational Resources


A dramatic demonstration of the principle behind sodium arc lights, by passing an electrical current through a pickle of other salty foods.

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  • Shady Hollow - Details how to build a glowing/flaming Pickle. Includes photos of the apparatus using heavy-gauge wire and glass jars as insulators, and a plugged-in pickle glowing only at one end.
  • The Electric Pickle as Will and Idea - Philosophical discussion of the meaning of the experiment, and multimedia files (.AVI, .MOV, .WAV) of the results.
  • Electric Veggies - Attributes the origins of the glowing pickle demo to the children of Catherine Ireland, a chemistry teacher from Manhasset High School of New York, in July of 1987.
  • Glowing Pickle - Short description of the science demonstration, with annotated bibliography of print references. From the Simon Fraser University Physics Department lecture demonstration index, classification PIRA 5D30.30.
  • Journal of Chemical Education: The Incredible "Glowing" Pickle and Onion and Potato and... - Abstract of article on electrical conductivity in foods. Intended as an aid to science classroom demonstrations.
  • Net4TV Voice: Surfari: Electric Pickles - A personal anecdote from Mr. Wizard's housekeeper, with reviews and descriptions of many sites describing the glowing pickle trick.
  • Lori's Chemistry Page - Discussion of various wavelengths of light, comparison of the colors of potassium, sodium, and lithium flames, and QuickTime movie of a demonstration of these concepts, by a high school chemistry teacher. Also has instructions on how to make a glowing pi
  • X Magazine: Please Pass the Science - The Glowing Pickle: Born of Boredom. Essay on discoveries made by bored scientists, from Post-It Notes to pickle-based sodium arc lights.
  • Journal of Chemical Education: Glowing Veggies - Abstract of article extending prior work on glowing vegetables to non-sodium ions. Intended as an aid to science classroom demonstrations.


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