My note on the Bobbing Bird (
J. Chem. Educ.1996,73, 355) neglected to point out that the demonstration
would fail in a room with high relative humidity. A cure for
this situation is to add a small amount of alcohol (methyl or
ethyl) to the water reservoir.
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