Materials:
1. safety glasses
2. Plastic Shield
3. Gummy Bears
4. Potassium Chlorate
5. Pyrex Test Tube
6. Ring Stand with Clamp
7. Bunsen Burner
9. Tongs
9.Fume Hood
The first thing we did for this lab was go to Trader Joes and buy a pack of gummy bears. We ate most of the pack at lunch because we only needed one red gummy bear. My partner chose red because he thought it would give the best color (this is not true).
Then inside the fume hood, we set up an apparatus that had a test tube held in the air by a clamp. We did the lab inside the fume hood because of the fumes the reaction would give out.
We filled the bottom of the test tube with Potassium Chlorate. We then used a torch to heat up the Potassium Chlorate until it was a liquid. When it was finally liquefied, we were ready the drop the gummy bear into the test tube.
1. safety glasses
2. Plastic Shield
3. Gummy Bears
4. Potassium Chlorate
5. Pyrex Test Tube
6. Ring Stand with Clamp
7. Bunsen Burner
9. Tongs
9.Fume Hood
The first thing we did for this lab was go to Trader Joes and buy a pack of gummy bears. We ate most of the pack at lunch because we only needed one red gummy bear. My partner chose red because he thought it would give the best color (this is not true).
Then inside the fume hood, we set up an apparatus that had a test tube held in the air by a clamp. We did the lab inside the fume hood because of the fumes the reaction would give out.
We filled the bottom of the test tube with Potassium Chlorate. We then used a torch to heat up the Potassium Chlorate until it was a liquid. When it was finally liquefied, we were ready the drop the gummy bear into the test tube.
This experiment went good it went as planned. This experiment probably was one of the coolest labs I have done in chemistry. I didn't think that it would go off like that. It only took like 20 minutes to do besides writing all the safety hazards. The only thing that sucks is that we had to buy a whole bag of gummy and we only used one.