We are now beginning our next chapter in Steve Spangler’s book, Kitchen Chaos! Sounds fun right? I thought so. The first experiment in this chapter gave me a shock! But I learned a lot. I needed a dollar bill to begin with, but I opened my wallet to find zero one dollar bills. Mom let me use one of her’s! Ha ha, she’s awesome! Anyway, I grabbed the strongest magnet we have. It’s the same one I used for the “Iron for Breakfast” cereal experiment. In the procedure, Mr. Spangler told me to try to attract the dollar bill with the magnet! I was thinking “Whaa?” but I was too curious not to try it.
The money was attracted to the magnet!!!! I was so surprised. But the question is why? We all know what is attracted to a magnet, metal! Metal in a dollar bill? Could it be true?
To find out, I pulled out the blender and added some water and the dollar bill.
You can probably guess what comes next, money smoothie!!
After much blending, ripping, chopping, and spinning, the concoction was done and I poured it into a bag.
I did basically the same thing I did in the cereal experiment. I held the magnet in my hand, put the bag on top, and swirled it around. After a minute, I flipped the bag over and looked under the magnet.
YES! Metal in money (iron to be specific)! I never knew that. Apparently, the iron is in the ink and that’s how machines tell if the money is real or not!
The WOW-rating for this one is a 6—Let’s do it again! Honestly, I want to sit at work and have a magnet with a dollar bill and move the bill around the table. My coworkers would say, “What in the world?”. That would be fun!
