Expanding Cubes

Product Description

Made from hydrophilic ('water loving') polymer, these tiny gel-like cubes will expand dramatically when dropped in water. After a few hours you will have large gel-like cubes that are invisible in water.  Or add food colouring to the water to produce coloured cubes. Leave them out on the shelve and they become small cubes again. Can be expanded many times into the irresistible, slippery giant jelly cubes.

Size: We have expanded a 5 mm cube into a 30 mm cube. That's a 215 times increase in volume!
Included: 20 g (approx. 100 cubes).
Teach: super absorbent polymers, hydrophilic substances, gels, optical density, osmosis

More classroom information and the MSDS in the files below.

Safety: Made from non-toxic super absorbent material, these spheres can't expand in the stomach's acidic environment but due to the small size are NOT classified AS TOYS. We recommend adult supervision.
Age: 6+ with adult supervision. 

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