Red Bull + milk experiment
Materials:
When I look back on this experiment I would like to have a bigger container to put the mixture in so it is more clean on what is happening. The experiment went very well though. The results turned out just how we wanted them to! What I had noticed when we did this experiment was that when you first pour the milk into the monster/ redbull it doesn't seperate right away the mixture sits for a couple of seconds, and it kind of bubbles and then you see the protien from the milk clump at the top or bottom of the container... it also is very chunky and kind of looks like sour cream. When I had tasted the chunky protien it was very sour and bitty... it was awful and very repulsive. Looking within this experiment, we did get al of the results we hoped to get. I think what helped us get these results was looking into how to do the experiment. This gave us a better understanding of the mixture.I worked with Molly and Paris. I think that my group performed really well, we didn't get off task, we had done everything we felt like we needed to do for the experiment to get the results we needed and also the research and such to understand how to do these things.
Monster also works the same as the redbull would, so what we had done was use monster. You start off by first getting a glass cup/ container to see what happens. Then you want to pour the monster or redbull into the cup about half way. Then you add the milk into it just enough so the monster or redbull turns like a cloudy white. Then wait a little bit and watch the protien in the milk seperate and go to the top, some may go to the bottom but that is okay. Andrew said if we ate it he would get extra points! Yuck, I was so desperate for points I did eat it and videoed it... and it ended up Andrew was just kidding with us:/
- Monster
- Milk
- Glass
- Why does this happen?
- The acid in the red bull causes the protein in the milk to separate
- Will the same thing happen if the milk goes in before the red bull?
The answer is yes the same reaction will occur.
When I look back on this experiment I would like to have a bigger container to put the mixture in so it is more clean on what is happening. The experiment went very well though. The results turned out just how we wanted them to! What I had noticed when we did this experiment was that when you first pour the milk into the monster/ redbull it doesn't seperate right away the mixture sits for a couple of seconds, and it kind of bubbles and then you see the protien from the milk clump at the top or bottom of the container... it also is very chunky and kind of looks like sour cream. When I had tasted the chunky protien it was very sour and bitty... it was awful and very repulsive. Looking within this experiment, we did get al of the results we hoped to get. I think what helped us get these results was looking into how to do the experiment. This gave us a better understanding of the mixture.I worked with Molly and Paris. I think that my group performed really well, we didn't get off task, we had done everything we felt like we needed to do for the experiment to get the results we needed and also the research and such to understand how to do these things.
Monster also works the same as the redbull would, so what we had done was use monster. You start off by first getting a glass cup/ container to see what happens. Then you want to pour the monster or redbull into the cup about half way. Then you add the milk into it just enough so the monster or redbull turns like a cloudy white. Then wait a little bit and watch the protien in the milk seperate and go to the top, some may go to the bottom but that is okay. Andrew said if we ate it he would get extra points! Yuck, I was so desperate for points I did eat it and videoed it... and it ended up Andrew was just kidding with us:/
Borax Crystals
Molly, Paris and I decided to make more crystals for extra credit, they
are just a different type of crystal. First all we had to do was research
them like the last crystals we did, make questinos we have about
them. Our questions are:
What is borax?
are just a different type of crystal. First all we had to do was research
them like the last crystals we did, make questinos we have about
them. Our questions are:
What is borax?
- The chemical breakdown: Na2B4O7·10H2O.
- It is also known as sodium borate and is a very important part of the boron compounds. It is a commonly used household item from laundry to teeth bleaching and even crystals which we are experimenting for our extra credit.
- Hot water is more essential to the success of making borax crystals than cold water. That's because heated water molecules move farther apart, making room for more of the borax crystals to dissolve. When no more of the solution can be dissolved, you have reached saturation, the point when we stop adding borax. As this solution cools, the water molecules move closer together again. Now there's less room for the solution to hold onto as much of the dissolved borax. Crystals begin to form and build on one another as the water lets go of the excess and evaporates.
You first have to get three pipe cleaners
then put your pipe cleaners in a circl kind of shape by like intertwining
them. Then you have to heat up water in the pot until it steams. You
next add the borax to it until it is cloudy. Lastly you tie a sting to your
pipe cleaner and then to a stick or something to hold it up while it sits
in the borax water. Then it said you needed to wait eight hours for it, but
when we did it we checked after two hours and it was pretty crystalized.
The pot also started to crystalize. So in the video we watched on how to
do this it never mentioned that this happens so we were a little scared
but I sujested we just heat the water back up on the stove and Molly
started to break it up which worked to get those crystals off of the pot.
then put your pipe cleaners in a circl kind of shape by like intertwining
them. Then you have to heat up water in the pot until it steams. You
next add the borax to it until it is cloudy. Lastly you tie a sting to your
pipe cleaner and then to a stick or something to hold it up while it sits
in the borax water. Then it said you needed to wait eight hours for it, but
when we did it we checked after two hours and it was pretty crystalized.
The pot also started to crystalize. So in the video we watched on how to
do this it never mentioned that this happens so we were a little scared
but I sujested we just heat the water back up on the stove and Molly
started to break it up which worked to get those crystals off of the pot.
Materials :
- Borax
- Beaker
- Stove or Heat plate
- Pipe cleaners
- Skewer
Bismuth Crystals
For extra credit Paris and I made some bismuth crystals.
To start off paris and I made questions to research
about to get a better understanding of the bismuth
crystals.
Those questions were
We learned that bimuth crystal are a type of metal, which is very weak. We also had found that these crystals are a stable metal when in normal temperatures. When this metal is put in hot temperatures andpaired with water it creates something called bismuth oxide. The different colors are formd when the oxide thickness is formed at the brim of the crystal affecting the wavelengths which create the different colors to form. We then learned that the reson the crystals get a staircase like structure is because the growth rate is higher on the outside than on the inner parts, because the crystals don't like forming on the inside so they grown upward on the outside.
To start off paris and I made questions to research
about to get a better understanding of the bismuth
crystals.
Those questions were
- Why do bismuth crystals get the colors they do?
- How do the staircase layers form?
We learned that bimuth crystal are a type of metal, which is very weak. We also had found that these crystals are a stable metal when in normal temperatures. When this metal is put in hot temperatures andpaired with water it creates something called bismuth oxide. The different colors are formd when the oxide thickness is formed at the brim of the crystal affecting the wavelengths which create the different colors to form. We then learned that the reson the crystals get a staircase like structure is because the growth rate is higher on the outside than on the inner parts, because the crystals don't like forming on the inside so they grown upward on the outside.
Finally after we had finished our research we finally got to make our very own bismuth crystals. We had set up where we were going to melt the bismuth metal down, and as it cools the crystals are formed.