Social Distance Learning Project: Color Eruptions

Today’s Project: Color Eruptions

Video Tutorial: color eruptions

This activity shows a chemical reaction!

You’ll need: 3 different cups of vinegar each with a different food coloring, baking soda on a plate, a dropper

Instructions:

1.Put some baking soda on a plate
2.Use your droppers to place different colors of vinegar onto the baking soda to see little chemical reactions
3.Make some beautiful artwork from this chemistry experiment!

Science Behind It:

Vinegar is an acid and baking soda is an alkalide. These form a chemical reaction when they are combined. Use this activity to create secondary colors or an awesome piece of artwork as your drop the vinegar into the baking soda!

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