_Experiment 2._ =Anatomy of Lungs.=--Study fresh lungs of sheep, hog,
fowl, or frog. Will they float? Will they contract when expanded by
air blown in through a quill or other tube? What is the structure of
the windpipe? Can you distinguish the arteries from the veins by the
stiffness of their walls? Which contain pure blood? Study branching
of air tubes. Make a sketch.
_Experiment 3._ =Tests of Expired Air.=--Breathe upon a mirror,
bright knife blade, or cold window pane. Result? State your
conclusion. _Experiment 4._--Carbon dioxid added to limewater will
cause a white cloud consisting of particles of limestone. Breathe
through a tube or straw or the hollow stem of a reed into clear
limewater. Result? Conclusion? (Limewater may be had at druggist’s
or made by pouring water upon a lump of unslackened lime and
draining it off when lime has settled.) _Experiment 5._ Breathe for
several minutes upon the bulb of a thermometer. Result? Conclusion?
_Experiment 6._ Breathe a few times into a large, carefully cleaned
pickle jar, or a bottle. Cork it tightly, and set it in a warm place
for several days. Then uncork and smell the air in it. Result?
Conclusion? _Experiment 7._ Pierce a small hole in a card, place card
over a wide-mouthed bottle, and breathe into bottle through a tube,
lemonade straw, or hollow reed. Pull out straw. Place bottle, mouth
downward, on table, and slip out card. Slide bottle to edge of table
and lift lighted candle into bottle. Result? _Experiment 8._ Place
bottle of fresh air over lighted candle. Result? Conclusion? (See
Animal Biology, p. 4.)
_Experiment 9._ (School.) =Testing the Air of a Room.=--Fill a fruit
jar or large bottle with water, and take it into a room containing
many people. Pour out the water. (This insures that all the air now
in the jar is air obtained in the room to be tested.) Seal the jar if
test is not to be made at once. Test by pouring in two tablespoonfuls
of clear limewater and shake. If the limewater turns milky, the
ventilation is bad.
_Experiment 10._ (Home and school.) =Homemade Current
Detector.=--Dangle a bit of paper by means of a spider web or thread
from the end of a walking stick or ruler. (Or test with the flame of
a candle.) Hold it near cracks of window, above and below doors, and
especially before openings intended for entry and exit of air, and
test if air moves as desired.
_Experiment 11._ =Ventilation of the Schoolroom.=--Let the whole
class rise, and with the fingers test cracks around doors and
windows. Wherever the air feels cold to the hand the air is entering.
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