In this experiment, lycopodium powder—also known as dragon’s breath powder—is put to the test in water. The spores float on the surface, coating anything dipped inside, making it possible to pull out ...

This one-minute film manages to be visually engrossing with an extremely limited medium. Cymatics consists simply of lycopodium powder dancing on a surface vibrating at 50 Hz. The video was directed ...

To better understand Cymatics, the study of visible sound, train your eyes to Susie Sie’s experimental videos. The filmmaker uses haptic, analog techniques to capture the visual effects of sound and ...

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Is your water and your fire dangerously un-fun? Replenish your joy levels with this all-natural herbal supplement. Lycopodium powder can cause terrible grain elevator fires, but now can be used for ...

Chemours senior chemist Leo Lech used lycopodium powder to create a combustion reaction during a Washington Works Fun with Science presentation Friday at Madison Elementary School in Parkersburg.

WITH reference to Mr. Sedley Taylor's interesting note on Fluid Films, allow me to say that if a drop of water, clinging to the outside of a glass goblet, be lightly dusted with lycopodium powder, and ...