The citizens of Lund enjoyed two days of challenging experiments during the ”Turista Hemma” weekend (16-17/5). This was the third experimental days arranged by ESS Scandinavia and it was popular with almost 400 attendees!
Curious families did their own hands on experiments, with guidance from Anna and Alexander from Chemistry Centre (Lund University). Marshmallows were “barbequed” in liquid nitrogen (-196°C), slime was produced and Styrofoam was dissolved in acetone.
- “You should really do this more often”, “This was exciting”, “wow”, “Extremely good experience, and cookies”, “Amazing”, “I love chemical mysteries”, “I liked the frozen marshmallows the most” were some of the statements made by the visitors.
Families left the exhibition more experienced – scientific mysteries had been explored as well as the cookies, lemonade and coffee on the “fika” table!
Posted by: Johan Långberg in usa, sweden, oxford, knoxville, icns, garden of eden, exhibition, ess scandinavia, denmark, colin carlile on
May 7, 2009
ESS Scandinavia team have had a successful week at the International Conference on Neutron Scattering, ICNS, in Knoxville. Our exhibition material first got stuck in the US customs but when it finally arrived and was set up, scattered visitors gathered around our booth refrESShing themselves with our Swedish spring water. We've been talking to a lot of visitors, promoting the multilateral European ambition to develop and build the world's next generation neutron source. We've 
handed out all our publications and booklets describing ESS Scandinavia's work to achieve this. People also showed great interest, turning the pages all week, in the new book "Experimental Neutron Scattering" written by Colin Carlile and B.T.M Willis (Oxford University Press).
Numerous apples of ESSS knowledge were eaten and the ISIS director Andrew Taylor seemed amused by the ESSS Garden of Eden atmosphere. Even the conference T-shirts, worn by our Swedish/Danish ESSS staff, have caused people to queue and sign up on a list in order to get one.
Something's coming, something good!
