The document provides instructions for an experiment to collapse an aluminum soda can. It explains that you fill the can with water and boil it on the stove for 30 seconds, causing the water inside to boil. You then quickly invert the can into a pan of cold water, causing the steam inside to condense and create a vacuum, allowing the outside air pressure to crush the empty can. The purpose is to demonstrate how boiling water inside the can and then cooling it rapidly creates a pressure difference that collapses the can.

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How to do it.
Fill the saucepan with cold water.
water into the empty soft-drink
can. Heat the can on the kitchen
Can stove to boil the water. When the
water boils, Allow the water to boil
for about 30 seconds. grasp the
can and quickly invert it and dip it
into the water in the pan. The can
will collapse almost
For this instantaneously.
experiment you What caused the can to collapse?
will need: When you heated the can you
caused the water in it to boil. The
vapor from the boiling water
 an empty pushed air out of the can. When
the can was filled with water vapor,
aluminum you cooled it suddenly by inverting
it in water. Cooling the can caused
soft-drink the water vapor in the can to
can condense, creating a partial
vacuum. The extremely low
 a 2- or 3-liter pressure of the partial vacuum
inside the can made it possible for
(2- or 3- the pressure of the air outside the
quart) can to crush it.
saucepan
 a pair of
kitchen
tongs