Buzzfeed Science Experiment

The other day I saw this article on Buzzfeed that said that if you put Skittles in liquid, the S will float off, rather than dissolving. The article had pictures, but you can't always trust pictures on the internet.

Hmmmm, I thought. The office is filled with Halloween candy. I bet we have Skittles here.

We did!



And then I thought, I bet we also have water.

And we did!



And so a science experiment was born:



Unfortunately, I don't get paid to conduct science experiments with Skittles in my office, so I mostly just ignored it from this point forward and looked at it every few minutes.

First I learned that the dye they use for Skittles is not lighter than water:



As the Skittles continued to dissolve, small pieces of white something began to float up:



None of the pieces were intact letter S shapes, though.



Nope, still no floating S.

Wait...could it be?



That is a letter S. Definitely an S.

By the end of the hour, there were several:



There weren't any Skittles, though. When I dumped out the cup in the office kitchen sink, there was nothing left.

Not even an S.