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BSN 1A

Physical or Chemical Change?

Put a check (√) to indicate whether you think the item is a physical change or a chemical change.

Physical Change Chemical Change

1. Ice melting √

2. Cutting a pineapple into √

pieces
3. Adding vinegar to baking √
soda
4. A piece of rusting metal √

5. A campfire √

6. Crumbling a piece of paper √

7. Sour milk √

8. Shattering a drinking glass √

9. Dissolving sugar in water √

10. Burning paper √

11. Boiling water √

12. Burning a match √

Try This Experiment

How do you know that a gas is produced as a result of mixing baking soda and vinegar?

Materials
• ¼ cup (56 grams) of baking soda
• ¼ cup (60 milliliters) of vinegar
• 1 small, empty water bottle
• 1 balloon
• 1 funnel

Procedure
1. Stretch the balloon out before using it.
2. Using the funnel, fill the balloon with the baking soda.
3. Pour the vinegar into the empty water bottle.
4. Attach the opening of the balloon to the mouth of the water bottle—be careful not to get any
baking soda into the bottle.
5. Count to three and lift up the part of the balloon that contains the baking soda so that the baking
soda falls into the bottle.
6.

Pure
Baking Vinegar
Soda
Questions
1. What are the physical properties of the baking soda?

Baking soda or Sodium bicarbonate is an odorless, white crystalline solid or fine powder. It has
a slightly alkaline taste.

2. What are the physical properties of the vinegar?

Vinegar is a colorless liquid with corrosive pungent vinegar-like odor with a sour taste.

3. What happened inside the water bottle when you added the baking soda to the vinegar? What
did you see in the bottle?

The baking soda and vinegar created an acid-based reaction and the two chemicals worked
together to create a gas.

4. Did anything happen to the balloon? If so, what do you think caused it?

The created gasses or carbon dioxide need a lot of room to spread out and the creation of
gasses inside the bottle inflated the balloon.

5. What type of change occurred inside the bottle when you added the baking soda to the vinegar?

Chemical change occurred when vinegar and baking soda are first mixed together, hydrogen
ions in the vinegar react with the sodium and bicarbonate ions in the baking soda. The result
of this initial reaction is two new chemicals: carbonic acid and sodium acetate.

6. Fill in the definitions in the vocabulary box below.

Vocabulary
any substance that has mass and takes up space by having
Matter volume.
a measure of how much matter is in an object.
Mass
a characteristic or trait that you can use to describe matter by
Property observation, measurement, or combination.
 Anything that's qualitative has to do with the characteristics
Qualitative or features of something, rather than its quantity.
measuring a quantity - putting a value to something.
Quantitative
a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a
Physical Change substance, as size or shape
a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the
rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a
Chemical Change change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting
in the formation of at least one new substance.