is it edible?
2006-08-30 18:11:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Mineral oil, paraffin, carbon tetrachloride and a dye or dyes.
Carbon tetrachloride is poisonous.
2006-08-30 18:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by G.V. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "lava" is basically a specially compounded wax. When heated from below by a 40-watt bulb, it expands until it becomes less dense than the liquid above, causing it to rise. When it gets to the top of the globe, the wax cools and starts to sink again, and the cycle repeats. Convection currents in the liquid presumably add to the effect.
The wax and the water are composed of 11 secret ingredients mixed in giant (well, relatively large) vats. Dedicated technicians measure the specific gravity of the various components to the ten-thousandth. The specific gravities of each batch of wax and water must be individually matched, or the wax will break up into tiny bubbles, crawl up the side of the globe, or just float about an inch above the bottom of the lamp.
...and no its not edible!!
2006-08-31 01:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by payal b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a very secret recipe, made up of wax mixed with very secret thingies. Or maybe it's not mixed, but the point is, it has been prepared a very special way to make it float that way (up and back down and up and back down, instead of just float to the top/sink to the bottom.) So no one here will be able to tell you exactly how it's prepared.
Eating it, however, is not an option, I can tell you that much!
2006-08-31 01:18:20 · answer #3 · answered by ear help! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lava. Next question.
2006-08-31 01:16:57 · answer #4 · answered by starmoishe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The lava is wax and the liquid is oil. I would not eat it. You might get sick.
2006-08-31 01:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by luvtohateyou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wax as it heats up from the bulb at the base it becomes lighter so it rises as it cools it becomes heavy again and sinks and so on and so on
2006-08-31 01:17:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be made of different things, usually wax. I wouldn't recommend eating it!
2006-08-31 01:16:36 · answer #7 · answered by mynameisdennis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Specifically formulated wax. You can eat it. Probably make you sick.
2006-08-31 04:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by Dr Ed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be, but I would not drink it. There are chemicals that could be harmful to you...
2006-08-31 03:34:35 · answer #9 · answered by tinytinker79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's alien mucus... Eat it if you want.
2006-08-31 01:15:20 · answer #10 · answered by Sherluck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋