Lava lamp creators are notoriously tight-lipped about their secret ingredients, but DIY lava lamps aren’t impossible. ... Watch some wild GoPro footage from the inside of a lava lamp here.

Katzel: Inside of a lava lamp, you've got wax, which is mostly paraffin wax. That's your lava. Jones: Paraffin wax is a common wax made from petroleum. You can often find it in candles and cosmetics.

Inside Mathmos’ lava lamp factory. On the lava lamp’s 60th anniversary, we take a look at the Mathmos factory where the iconic design still bubbles into life. Sign up to our newsletter Newsletter; ...

A lava lamp uses the lightbulb — or in this instance the candle — inside the base to heat the wax (a process that can take about an hour) to the point where it forms stalagmite shapes, then ...

Dolan Vickery teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to make a DIY lava lamp Looking for a fun, hands-on activity you can do at home with just a few simple ingredients? In this video, we’ll ...

Question: What fluids are inside lava lamps? _ Ken Robbins, St. Petersburg Answer: The actual fluids inside lava lamps are a "closely guarded secret," according to a spokeswoman for Lava-Simplex ...

You should never place your lava lamp next to a heater, window, or in a space warmer than 75 degrees. You can also replace the liquid on the inside of your lava lamp.

Polymers that repel each other can spontaneously phase-separate inside artificial vesicles, like oils in a lava lamp. Interaction between droplets and the cell wall limits the size of the droplets and ...

'Lava lamp' vesicles show how cells could self-organize Date: July 11, 2023 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: The inside of a living cell is crowded with large, complex molecules.

image: Polymers that repel each other can spontaneously phase-separate inside artificial vesicles, like oils in a lava lamp. Interaction between droplets and the cell wall limits the size of the ...