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- Shady Hollow - Details how to build a glowing/flaming Pickle. Includes photos of the apparatus using heavy-gauge wire and glass jars as insulators, and a plugged-in pickle glowing only at one end.
- Glowing Pickle - Two enhancements to the standard demonstration apparatus: using a ground fault interrupt (GFI) to reduce the risk of electrocuting the demonstrator, and using potassium chloride (a dietary salt substitute) to produce a pink glow rather than the traditional sodium yellow. Also discusses the mechanism of the single-ended glow.
- Glowing Pickle - Short description of the science demonstration, with annotated bibliography of print references. From the Simon Fraser University Physics Department lecture demonstration index, classification PIRA 5D30.30.
- Net4TV Voice: Surfari: Electric Pickles - A personal anecdote from Mr. Wizard's housekeeper, with reviews and descriptions of many sites describing the glowing pickle trick.
- Lori's Chemistry Page - Discussion of various wavelengths of light, comparison of the colors of potassium, sodium, and lithium flames, and QuickTime movie of a demonstration of these concepts, by a high school chemistry teacher. Also has instructions on how to make a glowing pickle.
- X Magazine: Please Pass the Science - The Glowing Pickle: Born of Boredom. Essay on discoveries made by bored scientists, from Post-It Notes to pickle-based sodium arc lights.
- Journal of Chemical Education: The Incredible "Glowing" Pickle and Onion and Potato and... - Abstract of article on electrical conductivity in foods. Intended as an aid to science classroom demonstrations.
- Electric Veggies - Attributes the origins of the glowing pickle demo to the children of Catherine Ireland, a chemistry teacher from Manhasset High School of New York, in July of 1987.
- The Electric Pickle as Will and Idea - Philosophical discussion of the meaning of the experiment, and multimedia files (.AVI, .MOV, .WAV) of the results.
- Useless Information: The Electric Pickle - The tale of a teacher in search of compelling classroom demonstrations. Also discusses, but does not explain, a demonstration where he set his tie on fire to satisfy a student's repeated requests.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dil Pickles - Dylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles is the younger brother of Tommy Pickles, and cousin of Angelica Pickles on the Nickelodeon shows Rugrats and All Grown Up! .
- Pickles (comic strip) - Pickles is a daily and Sunday comic strip by Brian Crane focusing on a retired couple in their seventies, Earl and Opal Pickles. Inspired by Crane's in-laws, the Pickles find retirement less than idyllic.
- Vlasic Pickles - Vlasic Pickles grew out of a Detroit creamery and fresh pickle business begun by Croatian immigrant Frank Vlasic, and then his son Joe in the 1920s. Vlasic's primary product, pickles packaged in glass-jars, began production during World War II, and the business rapidly expanded in the post-war years, corresponding with growth in per capita pickle consumption.
- Sweet Pickles - Sweet Pickles is a series of 40 children's books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter (who also created Stickybear and the Strawberry Library). The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and behavior.
- Guss' Pickles - Guss' Pickles is a famous pickles vendor located on the Lower East Side of New York City. Considered one of New York's cultural landmarks, and for many years located on Hester Street, it is often included as a site of interest in tours of the Lower East Side, much as is Katz' ...