The laboratory on wheels Movilab, an initiative of the National Research Council (CSIC), the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and the Foundation Padrosa arrived Tuesday February 12 at the town of Alhama de Murcia, where remain until February 15.
The truck will be located in the City Park "La Cubana", front Residence for the Elderly, Constitution Avenue.
Diego Huertas, Councillor for the Environment, who has managed the area under the CSIC which makes possible the visit of this facility, approaching to the site to check their development.
And, the Department of Environment has concluded with schools in the town's visit to Movilab students in morning.
In the afternoon, the bus can be visited by those who wish it.
It will be installed until the morning of Friday 22.
Movilab, science facility located in the trailer of a truck, has two main objectives: to popularize science, innovation, and some of their applications and promote vocations in the field of science and innovation.
Mobile facilities are prepared to carry out two simultaneous workshops with groups of up to 30 people during the morning and afternoon during the two previous editions Movilab went through nearly 30,000 people.
For this third edition, is scheduled to visit 15 locations Movilab noted for their commitment to science and innovation.
Experiments with light and water
Movilab offer visitors, both schoolchildren 7-17 years as adults of all ages, three interactive workshops.
In the first one, Let there be light!, Participants will address topics such as the origin and nature of light.
Guided by the monitor shall provide a fluorescent lamp and a "home", in which the light originates by heat (the bulb) or to ionize the atmosphere of a glass tube (in the fluorescent).
Also produce chemical light, by reacting sodium carbonate and ammonium carbonate with luminol and separate the pigments in the ink from a commercial marker.
The workshop's life through a microscope participants may take some insect, flower, lichen, fish scales, etc., To be viewed with a dissecting increased.
Mold grown on a piece of moistened bread or some standing water source will be surprises.
Hydrolysis of water is the name of the workshop in which you can break the water molecule atoms to see what shape it, to know its structure and discover their unique physicochemical properties.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia