Freezing time
Freezing time
What you need:
A cheap battery-driven clock
A freezer
A small plastic box
Tissue paper or cotton wool
Instructions
Take the clock and put it in the box. Pack it in with tissue paper or cotton wool to keep it dry. Don't use your best clock, just in case it gets damaged!
Put the box in the freezer and leave it for about an hour.
Take the clock out - is it still working?
Results & explanation
Put it in your living room and wait a day or two – it should start working again eventually.
Batteries use chemical reactions to make a current flow. It flows with much more difficulty inside a battery at freezing temperatures, so that the battery doesn’t work, but it usually returns to normal when it’s warmed up.
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