Museum at Home: Soap-Powered Boat
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Oil and water don’t mix, while soap can mix with both of them. Chemically speaking, soap can latch onto both oil and water molecules. This property means that soap moves water around, and in this video, Don shows you how you can use it to power a boat.
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