Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Spectacular Science

Hello,
Today was an almost whole science day!
It was super!
This morning the junior class and I went to the science class to learn about acidic, basic and neutral liquids.
We all had a lot of fun mixing up the different ''ingredients'' to figure out what was what.
(At least I did...)
Then we went to lunch (Yeah!).
During lunch, Miss Fish tried to explain to me how we could know the difference between acidic, basic and neutral things.
I wasn't really receptive (sorry Miss), but the polenta was excellent!
Direction chemistry class!
Also a lot of fun!
Like Miss Fish said, I will never be able to understand people when they have an accent...and (of course) the teacher had a super Welsh accent!!!
We learned about colors in the rainbow and about how blue isn't called ''blue'' but cyan and that pink isn't called ''pink'' but magenta.
Did you know that our eyes (or retinas) can only identify 3 colors (cyan, yellow and magenta)?
*Edit: I think we need to revise this little bit. Who can comment and tell us the three colours we can detect?*
We got presents! Some super bracelets, necklaces, .... that glow in the dark!!!
AND! We were able to facepaint ourselves!
In general a beautiful day!
You're sad you're not in our school huh?
By Anne-Gabrielle

8 comments:

  1. lucky people you guys... such lucky people... wwaaa

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  2. we can detect blue, green, and red by lucas

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  3. Thanks Lucas, that's right!
    You win the prize :)

    So, for another prize... What is the significance of the three colours Anne-Gabrielle mentioned (cyan, magenta and yellow)?

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  4. the inportant part of these three colors is that we can mix them to make or see other colors or cancel out colors

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  5. Ooh sounds interesting Lucas. Tell us more.

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  6. How Lucas said, we can only see blue, green and red.
    Additive color systems start without light (black). Light sources of various wavelengths combine to make a color. In either type of system, three primary colors are combined to stimulate humans’ trichromatic color vision, sensed by the three types of cone cells in the eye, giving an apparently full range.

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  7. That's great Dario - now you've introduced additive colour systems, why not tell us what we can make by adding different combinations of colours?

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  8. What is happening is that when you add all three colours together, the color is getting white so when you add purple to yellow,it would make white because purple is made out of blue and red so you mix blue, red and yellow and it makes white. But,if you mix purple and red, it would make dark purple because not all the prime colours are mixed together.

    I hope it makes sens

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