What do Bubbler Jukeboxes, Hand Boilers, Drinking Birds and Holiday Bubble Lights all have in common?
Answer: They all use the chemical Dichloromethane for effect.
Here's brief explanation of the working principle taken from the Wikipedia page:
"The chemical compound's low boiling point allows the chemical to function in a heat engine that can extract mechanical energy from small temperature differences. An example of a DCM heat engine is the drinking bird. The toy works at room temperature.[18] It is also used as the fluid in jukebox displays and holiday bubble lights that have a colored bubbling tube above a lamp as a source of heat and a small amount of rock salt to provide thermal mass and a nucleation site for the phase changing solvent."
I just love watching the bubble lights doing their thing and I love the lights and sounds from a bingo machine.
It got me thinking... I should combine both as some absurd ASMR video.
Kinda like the Fireplace channel (the only TV channel I would willingly watch) but with Bubble lights and a bingo machine noises instead. Warm lights, clicks and pops.
It's time for a new holiday tradition!
