In today's video, we are taking an ultrasonic vaporizer,
seeing if we can make a colored mist,
and if we can,
what we can do with it.
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Guys, this is an ultrasonic vaporizer.
It's the component
that's normally found inside of a humidifier to make the mist.
It makes the vapor that comes out of a humidifier.
In this container here, we've got a big fancy one.
It's basically 12
of these little ones all wired up together in one housing.
So ultrasonic vaporizers are meant to be used with water,
and they make a super fine opaque vapor.
We want to see what we can do with it.
Here's the basic idea.
Using a component commonly found in household humidifiers,
we're going to try to make colored fog
out of food coloring.
We're going to do a quick test,
first, with our little single plate vaporizer.
We're going to plug this thing in,
and we're going to watch how it works.
We're using a clear cup
so you should at least be able to see some of it.
However, our vision might get a little obscured
as it does fill with vapor pretty quickly.
So we can see the ultrasonic vaporizer down here,
and then we've got a lot of clear water
where you can see little bits of stuff floating around,
and that it's not still water.
But it doesn't really look like it's doing too much.
Up here at the top however,
you can see water is just being shot out,
and drips all over,
and that's why we're doing this on top of a towel.
So, the ultrasonic humidifier actually uses ultrasonic waves,
and it creates sort of fine mist
through the water itself with a broken capillary wave
at the water's surface.
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The vaporizer has a ceramic plate
that's oscillating several thousand times per second.
The way that impacts the water forces
it to break up into microscopically small droplets,
which form a fog.
When this is in a humidifier, those microscopic droplets
quickly evaporate into the air, adding humidity and moisture.
That's our small-scale one.
Now, we're going to try the large-scale one.
Like I said, this has 12 of those,
and this is probably a much higher quality brand.
The small one is from Amazon and cost $10,
and while it's very cool,
it's not exactly the most stable, well-built thing.
They can only be on for a few hours
before they break.
So, you need to limit
how long you leave them on a time.
This one is designed to be a lot more sturdy,
and obviously, it's bigger.
This one's actually one that's made for a pond,
so it's made for a much larger surface of water.
Yay.
Again, there's a reason we have the towel down.
This is just shooting a lot
of water up and out of the container,
but you can see this is also making a lot of vapor.
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Something interesting about this mist is even
though it's been running for a while,
and we have quite a good fog down in the jar,
it's not really escaping the jar very much
unless I blow down into it.
The mist that this makes is really dense,
and this is designed,
as Calli said,
to go in a pond or a lake or something,
and flow over the whole surface of it.
When it's in the jar, it just can't build up enough
that it escapes out the top very well.
So I have here a bike pump that I've modified a little bit,
and by modifying,
I mean, I tore the front out of it.
He means a lot.
Usually, it has like a valve built out of that.
So if you are pumping air into something,
it doesn't pump it right back out.
We didn't want that.
We just wanted physically a giant syringe.
So now, we can just put the bike pump down in there, pull back,
and it's full of our water vapor,
and there's something I definitely want to try.
I want to see
if we can use this to blow bubbles.
Shall we try this?
I'm always having fun.
I know.
Yes, it works.
Nice.
And they're kind of sticking.
So we were taking
our little pump syringe, and we were filling it with vapor,
and they were blowing it through the bubble wand.
Now, we've decided to cut out a step,
and we're just dipping the front of our syringe
into the bubble soap,
and we're just making the bubble directly on it.
That was a really good vapor bubble.
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All right, so here's the next thing we want to try.
We've got a bunch of food coloring,
and we want to see
if we can actually change the color of the vapor itself.
Now, the vapor were looking at, it looks white.
It comes across as being a white vapor,
but in truth, this vapor is clear.
These are tiny tiny droplets of clear water.
It looks white
because we're shining white light on it,
and that's getting reflected around.
A lot of the time,
with things like bubbles or vapor, mist,
stuff like that,
it's really hard to change the color of it
because it's actually just such a very very thin amount
that it's just clear
and reflects whatever light is around it.
But we're going to try.
We've got a lot of food coloring,
and we might be able to make this work.
All right, we're going to start with blue food coloring,
and we're going to use
a ton of it to see if we can get this to work.
I think we should try an entire bottle of blue,
and there's only about a cup of water in here,
probably less with the vaporizer there.
So that's pretty concentrated.
Yep.
An entire bottle?
Whole thing.
All right.
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Look at how it's like sinking down.
That's cool.
All right.
This is intense.
Here it goes.
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So what do you think?
Is that actually blue vapor?
You know, I wish I could say yes,
but I don't think so.
So there are some types of like essential oils,
even that are made specifically to dissolve
sort of into the surface of the water in a humidifier.
But even then,
it's not necessarily part of the vapor.
It's just getting picked up with it.
I don't think that's what's happening here.
I think that's still a white vapor.
I'm--
So I'm trying to like pointed
at the side to keep it from splashing out,
>> and I'm not-- >> There is the color.
I mean the splash is not really part of--
Yeah, we're really just getting a white fog here.
Guys, we did one.
We're going to add four more.
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There's such a delayed reaction.
Wait!
Wait.
That actually looks like
>> it's colored. >> That might be blue?
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It's so--
>> I think-- >> It's very subtle,
but I'm pretty sure we've got blue right there.
I'm also curious, this is water vapor.
If you blow it out directly onto the paper,
will the paper like pick it up?
Look at that.
It's like the worst airbrush ever.
Don't move.
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We are out of blue.
We're not out of the other colors.
And we have a lot of this one.
We do.
We do have black.
So here's the next thought.
We added a lot of food coloring to a little bit of water,
but what if we try a lot of food coloring and no water?
There's none.
Straight food coloring.
Let's do it.
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Moment of truth.
Pure green food coloring.
Wow, you can see it already.
It does not produce nearly as much vapor.
But what vapor it is producing is very colorful.
I wonder if we added just a little bit
of water to raise the height.
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That's my new favorite.
That's got color.
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So there's like white vapor at the top,
and greener vapor at the bottom.
I think.
It could just be the green food coloring,
but I'm going to pop it,
and we can see if the vapor looks green.
There's still--
That's green vapor.
There's still green vapor in there for sure.
That's so cool.
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Why do they--
Okay, whatever is
in food coloring should be used to make bubbles.
We had the best result,
like the most intense color by using pure food coloring.
We have five bottles of the red.
I don't know
if that's enough to fully cover our ultrasonic vaporizer.
I don't think so but we should try.
So, we'll see what we can do.
Here goes red.
Switch on in 3, 2, 1.
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It's kind of got like a bloody mist thing happening here.
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All right, I'm going for it.
It's definitely making vapor now.
Yeah.
And it has color.
There's almost no vapor coming off of this.
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Oh, wait.
Almost.
A little.
It's not as powerful as the green.
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You had it for like a small second.
And I have paid the price.
Oh, no.
This is what happens
if you make food color bubbles, kids.
Bubbles full of colored vapor.
It is possible.
Colored vapor is possible to make.
Yeah.
I never would have thought that.
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