It's magic - physics you can touch and marvel at

But that didn't stop them from trying out one or two things with enthusiasm and curiosity. "Chromatography" was the name of the process for our first experiment, which is less complicated to use than its name suggests. Draw a black dot on a filter paper and drizzle it on slowly with drops of water. Then watch what happens. Patience-patience. And what slowly emerges are the colours from which this "black" was mixed. Because "chromatography" is a separation process. Of course, we immediately tried out the other colours. As is only right, we recorded our findings professionally in a "log book".

Next point: refraction of light. Huh??? The bouquet of flowers was still in the other hand a moment ago! If you place a glass of water in front of the picture and look through it, the rays of light are refracted so that they reach your eye in exactly the opposite direction. Great, isn't it?

Well, and then there was the elephant toothpaste (yuck! ) and the strudel in a glass, for which we used an alcoholic liquid (my perfume ) into a glass, put it over a tea light floating in water and: Candle out - water suction into the glass and we have a whirlpool! Great thing

Unfortunately, it didn't all work out, because the euro coin absolutely refused to float and we were also a long way from building the iceberg.

But no matter. It was fun anyway! And I've already got plenty more experiments in my suitcase for next time!" – Gaby Hammer

Thank you very much, dear Gaby.

Klaudia Skodnik and the Fortuna helps team