Honors Chemistry

Katie Wu & Charmaine Chan

Lab Demonstration: Water to Wine to Milk

Unit 3 You have decided that, in your new career as a magician, that you would perform a chemistry demonstration that makes it look like water is changing into different substances. a) What are the observations that you want your audience to see for each cup as you transfer?

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1. Transparent 2. Light pink 3. Transparent 4. Bubbly and then clear 5. Milky white 6. Pink/purple b) From the following list of compounds, determine which compound you want to put into each cup to make the magic trick to work and write the formula below each cup. (note: you can add more than one compound to a cup) Barium sulfate, sodium hydroxide, water, indicator, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Water (H2O) + Indicator NaOH Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4)(aq) Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) Barium Sulfate (BaSO4) NaOH