This Chanukah is no exception as the students of the Technion's General Chemistry Student Laboratory bring us their version of the traditional Chanukah song Maoz Tzur.
What's their innovation this time? Filling laboratory flasks to different levels producing the notes of the musical scale, in effect creating a new instrument.
Enjoy!
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(A tip of the kippah to Sheila Zucker for bringing this video to our attention.)
Not very original--people have been using glass containers filled to different levels to produce different tunes for a long long time. Even in elementary schools. When I was teaching high school chemistry we did similar thing but expanded it to see differences the viscosity of the liquid would make
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