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Chemistry Experiment Week
Experiment Week in Mrs. Haberman’s 10th-grade Chemistry class involved a whole bunch of reactions! What kind of reactions, you ask? Just a little good old-fashioned synthesis, decomposition, combustion, single displacement, and double displacement reactions! This may sound quite exciting, but it looks even more exciting!
Please click here, here, and here to watch the experiments in action!
Videos of the experiments were filmed by Smith Pingree. The student chemists are Smith Pingree, Zach Singer, Cassius Goldsmith, and Jacob Ortega. According to Mrs. Haberman, “The first video shows a single displacement reaction where aluminum is placed in a solution of copper(II) chloride. The solution heats up as the aluminum foil ‘dissolves’ and a dark, reddish-brown precipitate forms. In the second, a colorless solution of sodium chloride and silver nitrate is combined to produce an ‘avalanche’ of snow-white precipitate. The third experiment involves a copper wire coil suspended in a silver nitrate solution. The coil develops silver ‘needles’ and the solution becomes blue as silver ions are replaced by copper ions.”
Videos of the experiments were filmed by Smith Pingree. The student chemists are Smith Pingree, Zach Singer, Cassius Goldsmith, and Jacob Ortega. According to Mrs. Haberman, “The first video shows a single displacement reaction where aluminum is placed in a solution of copper(II) chloride. The solution heats up as the aluminum foil ‘dissolves’ and a dark, reddish-brown precipitate forms. In the second, a colorless solution of sodium chloride and silver nitrate is combined to produce an ‘avalanche’ of snow-white precipitate. The third experiment involves a copper wire coil suspended in a silver nitrate solution. The coil develops silver ‘needles’ and the solution becomes blue as silver ions are replaced by copper ions.”
