In this exhibit the visitor’s fantasy and knowledge is challenged.
Brazil nuts are large, elongate, three-sided, oily seeds of the South American Brazil nut tree. Because of their flavor, they are also known as the butternut or cream nut. Because of the nuts’ three-sided structure and shell, which is extremely hard, wrinkly and woody, as well as its distriution of weight, it does not react as other nuts when tossed.
- Pick up a nut and toss it on the table.
- Observe how the nut spins until it stops.
- What happens after it has stopped turning the first time?