Here is your photo with the unidentified yellow boat ( bottom right) and mine (green and red) with my old Kellogg's cereal toys. All are baking soda powered.
Just to beat New Zealand Paul to the fact checking prize...! Baking Soda is Calcium Carbonate mixed with Acetic acid. When the dry powder is exposed to water, a chemical reaction produces carbon dioxide gas. In a cake, this helps the dough become foamy, so the cake has a lighter texture.
In water, the reaction creates thousands of tiny bubbles as you can see whenever you pop a fizzy asprin in a glass of water.
I'll be using that effect in my puppet film. My central character gets shot down in her Spitfire over the North Sea. The final image of her trusty plane, will be of it disappearing into the murky depths.
I intend to sink a plastic model on a rod, into my neighbour's swimming pool. I'll have clear asprin tablets stuffed into the interior, to create tiny bubbles streaming out of the open cockpit!
Hey I remember that! Don't think they ever actually worked for me...
ReplyDelete'Baking Soda' powered !
ReplyDeleteWhat on Earth is that ?
A form of power Mish.
DeleteI vaguely recall these as well, and they never worked for me either! SFZ
ReplyDeleteSo is 'Baking Soda Power' like 'Flour Power', which was really popular with young people in the late '60s ?!
ReplyDeleteHee hee!
DeleteJust to beat New Zealand Paul to the fact checking prize...!
ReplyDeleteBaking Soda is Calcium Carbonate mixed with Acetic acid. When the dry powder is exposed to water, a chemical reaction produces carbon dioxide gas.
In a cake, this helps the dough become foamy, so the cake has a lighter texture.
In water, the reaction creates thousands of tiny bubbles as you can see whenever you pop a fizzy asprin in a glass of water.
I'll be using that effect in my puppet film. My central character gets shot down in her Spitfire over the North Sea.
The final image of her trusty plane, will be of it disappearing into the murky depths.
I intend to sink a plastic model on a rod, into my neighbour's swimming pool.
I'll have clear asprin tablets stuffed into the interior, to create tiny bubbles streaming out of the open cockpit!
Oops! Sodium Bicarbonate. Chemistry was never my strong suite!
DeleteLove it Looey! Operation Aspirin!
DeleteThe submarine worked well, the others I never tried using.
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