Today we did a REALLY cool lab! We put all of these metals into this little plate thing and put different solutions to mix with it! I think my favorite one was the calcium and copper (II) sulfate one! The reaction started bubbling then all of a sudden smoke started coming out from it and it was sizzling! How cool?! It then turned into a blue solid. After it cooled it started to expand a little to where we could see the inisde. What was really cool was that it was blue on the outside and a perfect snow white color on the inside! Another reaction happened simular to this but it was a brown solid but it didn't expand and crack like the blue one. Did anyone have a favorite reaction in the lab?
This looks like a really cool lab, nice pictures! I wish I could've participated :C
ReplyDeleteI wish my ours did that, but it just fizzed and turned blue... Anyway, my favorite reaction, by far was calcium and water. The fact that these two mundane substances can come together to produce such a violent reaction just amazed me! This particular reaction also made me wonder how many really cool reactions happen in our body that we don't even know about.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures! They are very clear and provide a nice insight to the lab we did in class!
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