Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Mini blog #3- mentos in a soda bottle





Today I am going to erupt soda in a 2 liter bottle with a mentos



Materials:
> A pack of Mentos
> 2 liter bottle pf soda

Procedure:
- Bring the soda and the mentos outside
- Open the soda
- Put one or two mentos into the soda bottle
- Move away quickly because the reaction is very fast
- Then the soda will be a fountain and explode at a pretty
decent height

Science:
}In the soda there is caffiene, Co2 gas, benzoate, and aspartame. In the mentos there was gelatin and gum arabic which all contribute to the jet affect.the physical structure of the Mentos is the most significant cause of the eruption due to nucleation.The surface of the mint Mentos is full with many small holes, allowing CO2bubbles to form very rapidly and in great quantity, causing the jet of foam.

Mini blog #2- Ice on a string




Today i am going to hang an ice cube from a string withour tieing it.:)

Materials:
-Ice cube
- Shallow plate
- water
- string or sewing thread
- salt shaker with table salt
Procedure:
1. Put the ice cube on the plate
2. with the string and the water wet a part of the string
3. place the wet part of the string on top of the ice cube
4. with the string on top of the ice cube put some salt on top
of the a wet part of the string
5. Wait a minute then lift the string and the ice cube will hang on
it
Science:
> The freezing point and the melting point of a substance occur at the same temperature. Pure ice melts when warmed above 0c, and pure water freezes when cooled below 0c. At 0c both the solid and liquid form of water can coexist. Adding a substance to a pure liquid causes the freezing point of the resulting solution to be lowered. This process is called freezing-point depression. The lowering of the frezzing point depends on the amount of salt added. The more salt added, the lower the temperature will be before the salt-water solution freezes

Saturday, May 15, 2010

ChemStD 11.C




















ChemStd 11.C Some naturally occuring isotopes of elements are radioactive, as are isotopes formed in nuclear reactions

A chemical elementt is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom.

Isotopes are any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. Most naturally occurring elements have more than one stable isotopes. Certain elements only have radioactive isotopes.

The elements without any stable isotopes are technetium (atomic number 43), promethium (atomic number 61), and the elements with atomic numbers greater than 82. Stable isotopes are chemical isotopes that are not radioactive.

Nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy.

Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller part

A nuclear reaction is the process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A trip to Mills Canyon Park


View Mills Creek Canyon in a larger map

The Mills Canyon Park Trip was fun walking with friends ad hanging with a lunch and watching Jensen Li fall down the hill of the park onto Laura Chen. I thought that taking the trial was boring because all we did was walk in a circle, but on the other hand it was still kinda fun to be outside for class. :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mini blog #1-Filling up a cup upside down






Today i filled up a cup upisde down without spilling any of it

Materials: Cup, Plate, Match, and liquid

Procedure:
> Get a cup and a plate
> With the plate put some soda or any type of liquid on it
> With the liquid on a plate in the middle put something that will hold a match
> after lighting the match put the match in the thing that will be holding it
> Cover the lighted match with the cup
> With the cup covering the match there is no oxygen getting the match so the match burns
out
> and then the liquid fills the class.
Science:
Is when the cup was over the match it burned out because with the cup covering it
The match didn't get any oxygen and the liquid on the plate, i used soda because it was carbinated, absorbed the oxygen and left the co2 behind and with absorbing the oxygen the liquid filled the cup.
Photocredit: Myself

Thursday, April 15, 2010

I propose we make some playdough










Links:

>How to make playdough

> How making playdough relates to chemistry


Materials: 1 cup of salt, 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, and food coloring

Procedure:
1. Pour all ingredients into a large pot
2. Stir constantly on a medium heat
3. Keep stirring until the dough forms into a ball
4. Knead the dough until it is dough like texture
5. Knead in food coloring for color (optional)
6. store in a plastic contain, lasts for 3 months



Safety Percautions:
>Keep away from any pets. The smell of the playdough smells like food
> avoid rubbing the ingredients near your eyes

scientific principles:
1. The liquid, water, keeps the ingredients together and makes
it malleable
2. The solid, salt, dissolves into the water
3. The liquid, food coloring, mixes with the ingredients make it a certain color

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Energy Test (scary)

We had an energy and it was hard. The equations were so difficult and it was 120 points and it was so so hard. we got it back in class and I did so bad and it brought my grade down to a C+ and i am like 2% away from a B-. I will try much harder next test :)

Graphing Experiments

In class we have been doing experiements with graphing and we get the numbers from a gauge pressure and volume and i have been understanding what we have been doing. Like we have been given a local pressure and had to do the equation GxCF and I know how to do it now. It is so exciting I like the unit that we are in

Awesome experiments


In chem we had a guest come in and show us some experiments that had to do with pressure, air, the atmosphere and gravity. I learned a couple things with the demos that he did like that Otto Von Guericke invented the vaccum pump. I also learned that fluid substances flow from high to low pressure. So the experiements were fun and I got to participate in one of the experiments and It was fun to have a guest in the class to learn from someone different.

Friday, March 19, 2010

speed



In chem we learned that in cool water the molecules don't move has fast and in hot oil the molecules move really fast.

Thursday, March 11, 2010


In class we made elephant toothpaste and when we got to touch it, it made my fingers yellow and made them smell super bad

Friday, February 12, 2010

Homegoing :) rally

So in the rally today there was a dance crew and there was a really really hot guy on the team and Karissa took a picture with him and i am so jealous of her and the leadership class because they got to take picture with them I am so sad and Mr.olson was in the rally too he was dancing to micheal jackson with the other teachers and he was an ok dancer :)

Thursday, February 11, 2010


In chem today we melted Mg to add O to get Mgo and we measured the Mg to get the weight of it and we did an equation to figure it out and we figured the equation out
to get the percent error

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Balancing


in a couple of labs this week we had som blocks to help us balance equatins. Balancing equations is hard, but when you usethe blocks it makes it easier and when you have people at your lab table they are a good source to helping you after the blocks and help from my teammates i am really good at balancing equations now. Chem seems to be getting better especially with compostition books that we can use on the test. :) :) :) :)

Blinding light

In chem today Mr. Olson did a demonstration with us that was really bright. He took us outside and he had 4 volunteers. The volunteers took a string of some kind of metal and light it with a lighter. Once the metal thing caught on fire it made this bright light like it was as bright as the sun it ws pretty cool, but once you looked at it it blinded your eyes it was awesome. I thought the demonstration was great and bright and blinding. :)

POP

In chemistry we did a lab that made a strong barking noise. In the lab we filled test tube half with water then we put calcium in it and then w put another test tube on top of the other test tube with the test tube that went on the other test tube, we took it off and put a lighter under the tube and when we did that itmade a loud dog barking like noise. The first time we did it we didn't know that the noise was going to happen it scared us alot. bye bye bye bye until next lab. :)

Thursday, January 7, 2010







A "Like Dissolve Like" is nonpolar solvents dissolve nonpolar substances. Polar solvents dissolve polar and ionic substances. Solvent-does the dissolving, a solute- gets dissolve

Solute+Solvent=Solutions

Solution-Solvent=Solute

Solution-Solute=Solvent