Aim:
I want to find out how to make colored fire.
Research:
Method:
Equipment:
- Safety Glasses
- Heating equipment
- Different salts
- Wire loop
- Nitic Acid
- Small Beaker
Instructions
- Get equiqment
- Be safe
- Set up the Bunsen burner
- Clean the wire loop in the acid
- Dip the wire loop into the salt of your choice
- Put the salty wire into the blue flame of the Bunsen Burner
- Observe what happens
- Repeat instructions 4-7
Copper – green/turqoise , Nitic acid – orange, calcium – red, copper sulfate CUSO4 – yellow, sodium – brghter orange, sodium cholride/NzCI – orange, strontium cholride/SrCI2-6H2O – orange,
Results:
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Discussion:
What is Chemical energy?
Chemical energy is engery stored in bonds of atoms and molecules. The energy is released when a chemical reactions takes place. Most of the time, once the chemical is released from a substance, it will complelety turn into another subtance.
Batteries, biomass, pertleum, coal etc. Are all examples of chemical energy.