{"id":3690,"date":"2015-06-16T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/glowing-pickle\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:50","slug":"glowing-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/glowing-pickle\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Glowing-Pickle.jpg\" alt=\"Glowing Pickle Demo Picture\" width=\"460\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6084\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/6-outlet-perpendicular-power-strip.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/dill-pickle-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6087\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/dill-pickle-1-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"dill-pickle\" width=\"249\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/dill-pickle-1-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/dill-pickle-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Skewer pickle across two nails.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Send current through pickle using power strip. Use switch on power strip to turn current on and off. Takes about 3o seconds\u00a0before pickle\u00a0begins to sizzle and glow.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0Sodium D line (yellow light) can be seen using a handheld spectroscope. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Warning: Electric shock hazard!<\/strong> <strong>Don&#8217;t touch pickle while<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> it&#8217;s being electrocuted<\/strong>. Also, aroma of sizzling pickle not too pleasant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Location<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Pickle apparatus (shown above) in L01, section B1.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Power strip: L35 section, section D2<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Pickle: Department fridge.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hand-held spectroscopes: L01, section C1.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Skewer pickle across two nails. Send current through pickle using power strip. Use switch on power strip to turn current on and off. Takes about 3o seconds\u00a0before pickle\u00a0begins to sizzle and glow. \u00a0Sodium D line (yellow light) can be seen using a handheld spectroscope. Warning: Electric shock hazard! Don&#8217;t touch pickle while it&#8217;s being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/glowing-pickle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glowing Pickle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,44],"tags":[261,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}