Fun Chemistry!!!!! January 16, 2014

Ok, this is an early blog post because we found out Chemistry is fun!!! And it's also my strong point.

We did a science experiment. It called for chemistry. First we did our "homework" and looked up the chemical make up of baking soda and vinegar. We used the PERIODIC TABLE.  The periodic table lists all the elements - not the ones outside like water, earth, fire, and air.

The chemical equations for baking soda and vinegar are:

 NaHCO_{3     sodium bicarbonate}

_{sodium     Hydrogen     Carbon      Oxygen}

   _{Na            H                C              O3}

_{= BAKING SODA!!!!!!!!!}

_{Vinegar      ethanoic acid (acetic acid)}

_CH3COOH

_{Carbon  Hydrogen  Carbon   Oxygen   Oxygen  Hydrogen}

  _{C           H3             C            O           O          H}

_{Cool, huh???} 

_{Hey, guess what???? When you combine chemicals, something really FUN happens! And that something really fun is A KABOOM!!!}  

We poured baking soda (sodium bicarbonite - a base) into the sink drain.

Then we added the acid - vinegar or ethanoic acid...........wait for it.....wait 

for it.....WAIT FOR IT.........

The KABOOM cleaned our sink drain!!!!! YAHOO!!!!! What actually happens is a 

chemical reaction - when they react together they form carbonic acid, which 

very UNSTABLE - WEAR GOGGLES WHILE DOING THIS EXPERIMENT AND IF 

YOU'RE A KID,like me, DO IT WITH THE HELP OF AN ADULT -- which I did. 

The carbon dioxide escapes (bubbles a lot) from the water and the 2 

separate!!!!  "Bye, bye carbon dioxide" - says, water.

We will have an update later on about other things we did today!

TO BE CONTINUED.....until later on.


Update 8:46

Oh, I forgot!!!! We made bread yesterday!!! That was kinda like chemistry 

because we mixed a few ingredients together and the are kind of like 

chemicals. We applied heat and presto! We had yummy bread! It was fun 

watching it change from a gloppy mess to a loaf of bread.

Oh, and today we found out that the place we thought the rabbit lived

is actually where the rabbit lives! We found prints, forage holes near the tree 

trunk.

Hopefully tomorrow we get to see what happens when we mess up a bread 

recipe!!


Stay tuned 'til tomorrow!!!

TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!