Friday, February 12, 2010

Magnesium Oxidatioooooooooooooooon


On Tuesday, we blew up the lab. :D

Just kidding, but we made some magnesium react with oxygen to form some white chalkey stuff called magnesium oxide! We didn't make it react really fast like the picture, but we stuffed some magnesium into a crucible and heated it up with a bunsen burner using matches (which is really really scary!) D:

Then afterwards we measured it and the magnesium oxide was supposed to weigh 0.60 grams when we put in 0.36 grams of magnesium. But we were wrong.

On a side note I want to make some ice cream and elephant toothpaste at the end of the year. :<

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