What Is Styrofoam (Mr. Wizard)

Professor Proton!

Fantastic!! I’m so glad I can rewatch these old episodes. Mr. Wizard was, and still is, the best TV science guy.

I wonder what all of these kids are up to nowadays.

Mr Wizard was Gen X Bill Nye...and he was friggin awesome!

The styrofoam retains its shape; the golfish and the beakerful fell apart. Why? And where to get these magic beads?

Mr. Wizard: "Christian, you've seen little cases like this haven't you?"
Stacey: my name's Stacey
Mr. Wizard: "....and because it's a gold fish, we'll put in some of the yellow"
Stacey: but it's orange

Mr. Wizard to producer: I am NEVER working with that kid again.....all she does is argue...

I want to know what Stacey grew up to be. She was always super sharp.

Next week he makes Napalm out of the styrofoam and gasoline !

I actually remember this one. That chick was in a ton of these episodes.

Thank you.

That's not Styrofoam.

Anyone else notice at the very beginning he mistakenly called her Christian?

I literally made a bag of popcorn before watching this episode. By the end, my stomach asplodeded. XD

"...we'll add some of the yellow." It's orange.

When microwaves still had dials instead of digital buttons

What's her name?

That wasn't 3 minutes

No I'm. Stupid

I thought she was a boy

Legenda.

Mr. Wizard always seemed like he could snap at any moment lol

I'm slightly disappointed he didn't say one word about how the beads they start with are made.

(The plastic is mixed with gas like nitrogen while it's molten in a high-pressure atmosphere, then allowed to cool and turn solid before the pressure is released. Gently melting the plastic allows the tiny high pressure bubbles to become larger, low pressure bubbles.)

Am I evil for kinda hoping she'd try to pull the fish outta the pot with her fingers?

That glass pot that he is using when I was a kid in the late 80s my mom was cooking spaghetti sauce and one of those glass pots and it exploded like a grenade throughout the kitchen glass went everywhere like shrapnel luckily nobody got hurt

When I saw this 30 years ago as a kid - I was happy and loved this show. Now I just hate myself.

I blame this exact video for my thermo plastic addiction!!

I used to have those same glass pots!

Mr. Wizard seems laid back here. I think he must have had a hangover.

She's a barrister in Canada now

Great episode. I too remember this one. I wonder if she's still got that fish.

I remember this, I also remember misunderstanding this and tossing chunks of Styrofoam int.o our macaroni in an attempt to fill the pan with styrofoam

which chemical use in styrofoam.......tell me the  name of chemicals