Year 5 did an experiment on what would
happen when water got poured on popping candy. I predicted that nothing will
happen, apart from the popping candy fizzing, and then eventually dissolving
into nothing.
I was nearly right. Something really weird happened, and I’ll
tell you about it now. First, the popping candy started to go “Pop!” It was
about three times as slow as it happens in our mouth, but we think that is because
saliva isn’t made of 100% water, and that the other things in human saliva help
to speed the process up a bit.
After about 5 minutes, the texture of
the popping candy turned into the sort you’d see on a toad’s back, all lumpy
and knobbly. I didn’t like it one bit! The water had sunk in, but not all of
the popping candy had dissolved. The candy was bubbling, and fizzing, and even
popping, like its name! It also looked a bit like flour that hadn’t been
sieved.
At the very end, it looked a lot like
sugar.
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