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The "Pharaoh's snake" or "Pharaoh's serpent" is the original version of the black snake experiment. It produces a more impressive snake, but its execution depends upon mercury (II) thiocyanate, which is no longer in common use due to its toxicity. [1] For a "sugar snake", sodium bicarbonate and sugar are the commonly used chemicals. [2]
A column of porous black graphite formed during the experiment. Carbon snake experiment. The carbon snake is a demonstration of the dehydration reaction of sugar by concentrated sulfuric acid. With concentrated sulfuric acid, granulated table sugar performs a degradation reaction which changes its form to a black solid-liquid mixture. [1]
Black snake (firework), a type of firework; Governor Blacksnake (1760–1859), a Seneca chief also known as Chainbreaker; Black Snake (Shawnee), a leader in the defeat of Colonel William Crawford's army during the Crawford expedition of 1782; Black Snake, made in 1973 and directed by Russ Meyer; Black Snake, Kentucky
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Because of this, a heptazine-based structure similar to Liebig's melon, a compound initially prepared around the same time that the pharoah's snake reaction was discovered, was not ruled out by the authors as a partial component of the solid material. [10] The generalized reaction is as follows: 2 Hg(SCN) 2 → 2 β−HgS + CS 2 + C 3 N 4
[1] [2] Lee Marek and "Marek's Kid Scientists" were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1999. [3] Steve Spangler 's televised demonstration of the eruption in 2005 became popular on YouTube , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] launching a chain of several other Diet Coke and Mentos experiment viral videos.
For optimal resolution of DNA greater than 2kb in size in standard gel electrophoresis, 5 to 8 V/cm is recommended. [6] Voltage is also limited by the fact that it heats the gel and may cause the gel to melt if a gel is run at high voltage for a prolonged period, particularly for low-melting point agarose gel.