Ivory Soap

[da]

Recipe: one bar Ivory soap, one microwave, on 1 min. 30 seconds.













Anyone care for Antactica on a plate?...







I rather like this one:



...the only adjusting was bumping up the contrast and gamma a little bit. That's just about what it looked like in my microwave.

Two animated gifs.

Expanding. (985KB)

Contracting. (641KB)

The finished product still feels soapy on the skin. It crumbles, though a wettened clump of soap-cloud will compress more, and act just about exactly like the original bar.



[edit: for anyone joining here for the first time, original motivation was a conversation with bats22 and subsequent googling found this thread from madsci.org which has an explanation for why it happens.]

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

You know, you could have waited until I at least had a microwave again...I am so doing this once it gets re-set!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Ha. I was slightly worried you'd be saying "Ieee! you did what in our microwave?..." :)

You could always try and use one at the university :)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I don't want you to use our microwave to make plasma bolts, but I don't care much about soap. As long as it's clean when I'm there, and you don't try to short it into oblivion, I don't much mind.