Answer by Vogon Poet for Is it possible to design a bottle that can always be...
There’s a balloon in my flask!☑ Ingredients are contained within airtight magical metal☑ Ingredients never touch air when the contents are poured out(Flask with partial fill)(Flask filled up with...
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The juice pouches my children sometimes drink from are like this.It is a simple foil pouch.
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Collapsible metal tubes — like the first toothpaste tubes sold in the 1800's.According to this site (emphasis as in the original):The first toothpaste tubes, appearing on the scene in the 1890s,...
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If you want to use a non-flexible container, another option is to have the bottom be a piston that's spring-loaded. The spring's force is then tuned to the density of the ingredient and the size of the...
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I feel like this is less a question about how to design an air-proof bottle and more a question about how to prevent the spoilage of a substance. We might need to think outside the metal container to...
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This is a problem that exists in the real world and was solved for some medications and... toothpaste.Modern toothpaste tubes are made of plastic and go back to the original shape after squeezing,...
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How about an airless pump? I have had foundation come in such bottles to prevent oxidation.It is basically like a regular pump bottle, but there is a disc inside that rises up as the liquid is...
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Smaller, Single Serving Ingredient BottlesIf you have a standardized potion bottle, then make standardized ingredient bottles in the proper sizes.If you combine 1 cup ingredient A, 1 cup ingredient B,...
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Very low tech: Pour a layer of paraffin wax over the top of the liquid ingredients. The wax will harden into an airtight seal with no gas between it and the liquid. To use, push on one side of the seal...
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Add an inert gasAnother option: take a bottle of compressed inert gas that is heavier than air, e.g. Argon. After using the ingredient, release a puff of argon into the container, that will displace...
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Wine bottle air pumpsThis is only a coincidence that I'm French and that I'm talking about wine. Yes, yes! "Seulement" a coincidence :p.Be the newest trend by getting inspiration from wine bottles....
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Heavier than waterA frame challenge, though I've already upvoted many excellent straight answers here.Sometimes fluids and/or gasses don't mix. This phenomenon is used in interesting ways. From using...
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The traditional solution with paint was to store it in a bladder tied with string, and squeeze out what you needed. This was replaced by the paint tube. American portrait painter John Goffe Rand,...
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I like the Spout Pouch idea, but it sounds like you might be looking for something rigid. If a metal cap threaded into the neck of a metal bottle works, then just use a cylinder that's threaded all the...
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Does the potion mix with oil? If not, then you can carry your potion in whatever bottle you happen to have, use as much of it as you like, and top up the bottle with oil which would prevent air from...
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If you want a cheap and reusable solution, liquid ingredients can be stored in syringes. You can make them any size you want (see image below for a really big one sold in Walmart for about ten bucks)....
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They just need a Spout PouchWe have already solved this problem for situations where we need to reliably contain liquids while still being able to access them, particularly spaceflight. You need to...
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Drop 'marbles' of this special substance into the flask. Remove $1\: cm^3$, add a sphere $1.24\:cm$ in diameter. (Might that be combined with measuring? Throw a marble in, a measured amount...
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The people in my setting (urban fantasy, starting in 1998 America and moving forward) have a bit of an engineering dilemma they need to work out regarding potionmaking. The magical substances they brew...
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