Exploding Pumpkins Pumpkins carve themselves but don't try this at home.   email to friend
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This information is provided for educational purposes only. Do not try this experiment. Make friends with your local chemistry teacher and let them amaze you with their pumpkin carving skills.

Just consider it a new way to carve a pumpkin at Halloween... the pumpkin is actually carved in the traditional way, but the pieces of the jack-o-lantern face get pushed back into place. A chemical reaction is triggered inside the pumpkin and the previously carved pieces are literally blown out of the pumpkin.