Making hydrogen + boom boom
As a class we learned about how chemical reactions work, and the different types of reactions. After having a half hour discussion on it we did an experiment on it by putting magnesium into acid and making hydrogen.
The scientific Method
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to learn about how different elements work together and different types of chemical reactions. it also was to teach us how to get only hydrogen.
Question: How do you fuse to elements to make one element?
Hypothesis: you just add them together and mix them up
Materials: balloon, beaker, magnesium, citric acid.
Experiment steps:
Science:
A periodic table is kinda like a graph, the Y is how many rings each element has around the center and the X is how many electrons the outer ring had. All atoms want to be complete with 8 electrons so they combine with other elements to be complete, the elements on the left of the periodic table go into the ones on the right to become complete.
Experience:
We started the experiment with a talk about how elements work together and I thought it was super interesting that all different types of elements want to come together, I used to think they would want to be separate to be there own element. Once we started the experiment it reminded me of something I had seem semi recently where a guy put rare metals into citric acid and I thought it was cool. At first when he gave us the acid and magnesium I had no idea what it was for but once we got the balloons I remembered that I did something like this in astrocamp. My group and I ended up getting the biggest balloon and it had a nice explosion when we blew it up.
As a class we learned about how chemical reactions work, and the different types of reactions. After having a half hour discussion on it we did an experiment on it by putting magnesium into acid and making hydrogen.
The scientific Method
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to learn about how different elements work together and different types of chemical reactions. it also was to teach us how to get only hydrogen.
Question: How do you fuse to elements to make one element?
Hypothesis: you just add them together and mix them up
Materials: balloon, beaker, magnesium, citric acid.
Experiment steps:
- put some citric acid into a beaker.
- roll a magnesium strip into a coil that will fit in beaker.
- Put magnesium into the citric acid.
- Quickly put a balloon overtop the beaker to catch the hydrogen.
Science:
A periodic table is kinda like a graph, the Y is how many rings each element has around the center and the X is how many electrons the outer ring had. All atoms want to be complete with 8 electrons so they combine with other elements to be complete, the elements on the left of the periodic table go into the ones on the right to become complete.
Experience:
We started the experiment with a talk about how elements work together and I thought it was super interesting that all different types of elements want to come together, I used to think they would want to be separate to be there own element. Once we started the experiment it reminded me of something I had seem semi recently where a guy put rare metals into citric acid and I thought it was cool. At first when he gave us the acid and magnesium I had no idea what it was for but once we got the balloons I remembered that I did something like this in astrocamp. My group and I ended up getting the biggest balloon and it had a nice explosion when we blew it up.