powder experiment

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.

Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Materials

1. paper
2. pen
3. powder 
4. squeeze thing
5. magnifying glass 
Steps: baking soda
1. put baking soda on the paper
2. look and feel the baking soda and describe what it looks like and what it feels like.
3. then divide the powder in to three
4. then in one of the spaces put four drops of water
5. then on another space put four drops of iodine
6.  then on another space put four drops of vinegar

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	cubic	crystal	smooth	powder
Texture	rock	soft	rock	smooth
Smell	nothing	tangy	grose	nothing
Iodine	brown to black	brown	brown	black
Water	wet	wet	wet	slid off
Vinegar	clear	clear	bubbly	wet

conclusion: when I put the Iodine in the sugar it went from brown to black. then when I put the water in to the sugar it just looked wet. then when I put the vinegar in the sugar it went clear. When I put the Iodine in the salt and it went brown. When I put the water in the salt it just did the same thing that the sugar did. when I put the vinegar in the salt it just went clear. Then we put the Iodine in the baking soda it went brown. when I put the water in it went wet. when we put the vinegar in it went bubbly. for the corn flour 
Making Sherbet

Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.

Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.

Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1.  zip lock bag

2.  tea spoon

Steps

1. put the citric acid in the zip lock bag
2. put the powdered drink in the zip lock bag
3. put the icing sugar
4. put the baking soda
5. mix it all together

Findings: sherbet

Sherbet
Taste	yuck
Colour	pink and white

Conclusion

I think that we should not make this again because it was yuck.