How to make your lamp of lava?

Before anything else, we will enumerate the elements that we need to manufacture them, these they are:
- Mineral oil (you petrolate liquid)
- Dye for foods of the wanted color
- A glass bottle
- A base for the glass bottle
- A bottle of alcohol of 70º
- A bottle of alcohol of 95º
- Turpentine (vegetable paint thinner)
- Lamp of 40 watts

As first step we will prepare the lava. For we will blend it in a vessel the mineral oil with the dye, until reaching the appropriate coloration. We go arranging little by little for not surpassing the color, since then it cannot become behind. You are important that you are coloring based on oleum
Once this list the mixture, we will arrange it in the very clean bottle, filling it up to 1/4 of your capacity.
Then, we will take the bottles of alcohol, where that of 70º will make that the mineral oil floats, while that of 95º caused you to collapse. We will fill the bottle then little by little with the 2 types of alcohol, all this in room temperature, until the oleum forms a giant bubble of "lava" that you float a little on the bottom until almost half of the bottle. That is the ideal, because given point the differences of density, once setting to the heat of a focus, they were formed micro-currents that will move the oleum.

Once this the bottle full with the alcohol and the colored lava, with the bubble in the precise (almost half of the bottle, cold) point, we will add a teaspoonful of you of Turpentine that are used to dissolve colors to the I surge.

The base will be able to her to manufacture with a jar with cover, removing you the cover so that, when inserting a socket with a lamp of 40W; the light can pass toward the higher part and to illuminate the interior of the bottle. The perforation of the cover should be of a diameter from 1 to 2 inferior cm to the diameter of the base of the bottle, so that pass enough light and heat, without losing stability on the base.

Then, we arrange the bottle on the base, we light the light and we will let that you warm. They began to move the bubbles, and gradually, you anger blending the oleum with the turpentine, you will break this way a little the superficial pressure of the oleum, as when we add a drop of concentrated detergent in the oleum when washing the plates in the kitchen. To accelerate the mixture a little, it can become agitated the bottle very smoothly, until they are formed small many bubbles.

We will leave the lamp approximately one hour working, and we will be able to observe as the bubbles cohesionandose they will go again, while they move.
Clever, we will already have a lamp of lava you list to decorate or to give to our dear beings, being able to create a wide variety of colors and forms using different bottles, bases and dyes.