White powder

What is that white powder?

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 

A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs. You need to find out what white powder it is?

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

Hi readers,

Today I'm going to tell you about the white powder. This is the white powder Sugar, Salt, Baking soda, and Cornflower we need to mix the chemical. The chemical is Water, Vinegar, and Iodine. In my group, we have Shikan, Ruavai and me.

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

Materials

1.   Paper

2.  Sugar

3.   Salt

4.   Baking soda

5.  Cornflower

6.  Pipette

7. Iodine

Upload a photo of each powder.

1.  Cornflour-

2.  Baking Soda-

3.  Salt

4. Sugar-

On the black cardboard using a microscope, you need to record what you see. You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. Look at them under your microscope and record what you see.

Do not mix the powders or taste the powders.

Findings:

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	Turned black	Turned yellow	Bubbled	Turned black
Texture	Hard	Light	Hardish	Oobleck kind
Smell	Yuck	Yuck	Yuck	Weird
Iodine	Absorbed	Nothing much	Went hard	Soft
Water	Absorbed	Nothing	Nothing	Nothing
Vinegar	Nothing	Onsorbed	Nothing	Went real soft

Write a paragraph about your findings.

The Findings for Sugar is different from each chemical. For the findings to the salt is to sugar too. The Baking soda is different as well too. The cornflower is different too one of them is the same as sugar.

Making Sherbet

Using the following recipe you need to make sherbet.

Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

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

Materials:

1.  Baking soda

2.  Spoon

3.  Ziplock back

4.  citric

5.  tartaric

Findings:

Sherbet
Taste	Fuzzy
Colour	Light pink

Conclusion:

Sherbet has to much salt because of the recipes. The color of the sherbet is light pink because of the baking soda. The taste is so bad because of the Fuzzy.

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