Mini Project #2

The mysterious moving liquid:
in chem we observed a mysterious liquid that continuously moves. It was made with with either milk or glue or some white liquid, i am pretty sure that is was milk but what ever. then some food coloring was placed in just a drop of different colors. after a little bit of soap was dropped in and all of a sudden the whole mixture began to move:I can not tell if the science in this is, because its a solution or if its because of its properties so i am going to say that its both a solution and a liquid experiment of some sort.

Mini Project #1

The mysterious play-dough type thing...
In chem we made this mysterious dough like material. it was made with flour and oil or water or something liquid most likely water. we put in food coloring. then it was heated on a hot plate. it smelled pretty bad. after it was done it looked like this: (the thing on my nose :D )



the science here is the fact that we combined different reactants added some energy, to create one product or play-dough type thing. the reactants are the flour water food coloring and heat. the product of course was the play-dough. PEACE OUT!!!

Gas Molecules and Pressure Standard 4a

students know that the random motion of gas molecules and their collisions with a surface create the observable pressure on that surface

Pressure= force/area

The speed and amount of gas molecules are what cause the amount of collisions on the surface. The collisions apply force to that surface. The more gas molecules in a container the more pressure, because the molecules take up more space.


The pressure of a gas is the force that the gas exerts on the walls of its container. When you blow air into a balloon, the balloon expands because the pressure of air molecules is greater on the inside of the balloon than the outside. Pressure is a property which determines the direction in which mass flows. If the balloon is released, the air moves from a region of high pressure to a region of low pressure.


Take a soda bottle for example. When you shake the closed soda bottle the carbon dioxide is released inside the bottle. the random moving gas molecules continuously bounce and repel off each other in the small space above the liquid and the surface of the bottle. the force that is applied to each square unit is that amount of pressure that is on the bottle. You can notice that the bottle feels hard.

Field Trip map

View Mills Canyon Map in a larger map

We went on a field trip for our chemistry class. it was really interesting, because all we did was walk through mills canyon. We looked at the beautiful scenery and noticed the chemical reactions taking place

IProposeWe

"IProposeWe" make HOT Salt Water!

Materials:

• A small pot

• A glass

• Some sort of Water dispensing devise (a faucet)

• At least one table spoon of salt

• A stove or hot plate, preferably a stove

Procedure:
1: Pour about 1 cup of water into your pot
2: Then turn your stove on and place the pot on top of the stove
3: In about 4 to 5 minuets take the pot off the stove.
4: You need to fill the glass 3/4 full with water.
5: Take 1 teaspoon of salt and drop it in the water
6: Stir the two together until the final solution looks clear.
7: FINALLY DRINK IT!!!!!................or not

Safety Precautions:
1: Make sure you always have a good grip on the glass, because if it drops it will shatter and break into a lot of sharp pieces.
2: Wear gloves, because when you pour the hot water into the glass you don't want the hot water to spill on your hands and burn you.
3: Make sure you do not spill the salt, because if you do you will bring bad luck on yourself, and no one wants that.....

Scientific Principles: The science in this is the fact the what you end up with is a solution. The water is the solvent and the salt is the solute, that leaves salt water as the solution. Stirring the salt allows the salt to diffuse throughout the water faster, and heating the water up just allows
the salt to diffuse even faster.

SWIM MEET AT M-A

Yesterday the Mills high swim team went to M-A, or mennlo athertin. We knew we were goin to get destroyed, but we were goin to try hard nyway. In the 50 meter freestyle me and my good friend timothy liang got 1st and 2nd, which was AWESOME!!!!!! then in the 200m relay we got third sadly but its okay cuz we were close to beating our time. which is 1:51. Overall the meet went really well and i thought we did really good against a team that is better than us.

David Webb!!

A guest speaker came to our class and showed us all these kool demonstrations, with his equipment. All of them were about vacuums and how they don't suck they create a low pressure system. he was a great speaker, and his experiments such as, the feather and the washer dropping at the same time, were really kool. i got a kool souvener too it was a crushed can. kinda funny. I really enjoyed his demonstrations and it was the highlight of my chemisrty year. PEACE!!

Can Lab

In class we did a lab were we put cold water into an empty can, such as a soda can. There was a large tub of cold water right next to us. Then we heated it up on a hot plate, and right when it started steaming we quickly flipped the can into the cold water and the can crushed itself. it was pretty dang kool. well thats all for now PEACE!!!!!

Energy test

two weeks ago i took the Energy test, which was a fun unit , there were a lot of fun labs that we did but sadly i don't remember most of them. i just know that they were fun.♥ I studied for the test but, again, sadly i was short of an A and settled with a B+. But thats okay i still feel good with what i got. PEACE!!!!!

SWIMMING MEET

Last week i had a swimming meet that was totally awesome. Well it was actually a practice meet, but it was still exciting. I had to do the 50 free style and the 200 freestyle relay. I won the 50 freestyle , and i got 29.69 seconds which is okay.... then in the 200 relay my team was ahead by half a lap and then we lost..... sad ending but i had a lot of fun PEACE OUT♥!♥!♥!♥!♥!♥!

SUPER WEEKEND

this weekend i m goin to Sanoma, or i think thats what its called. i go there a lot, because its a small isolated place were you can hang out with the family. It is sort of like small apartments that you can rent out, or use like a hotel room. it is really fun because the rooms in which you stay are really kool they somtimes have 2 stories! i am so excited to go......well peace out!

~RALLY~

today we ahd the last rally of the year called the "homegoing"rally. it was fun, because it had plenty of dancing acts and a lot of cheering. the coolest dance groups were "encore" and "academy of villans". the academy of villans are a proffesional dance group that were featured in Americas best dance crew! Amazing right!! THe rally was really kool for the last one evar! well peace out!!!

Oxidation of Magnesium

Yesterday we did a lab in which we oxidized magnesium and ended up with MgO, or magnesium oxide. we burned a magnesium ribbon that was 25.3cm inside a crucible and we ended up with MgO. We were supposed to get .60MgO left, but i only got .50 so watev my group ended up doing it right anyway so no sweat the lab was fun.

solutions and pH test

This particular test on Solutions a pH was pretty hard, because it involved a lot of math, and setting up equations. It was mostly algebra. We used the GxCF to find our answers, which does evolve a lot of thinking, so it was indeed challenging. But it gets easier once you learn how to do it.

solutions and ph

we are learning about ph levels, i know that ph levels 1-6 are acids and ph levels 8-14 are bases. 7 is neutral, and water has the ph. this seems easy but when we did a lab on it it was sort of challenging, because there were specific directions that you needed to follow or you automatically did it wrong. but it is cool none-the-less..... we also learned how certain color represent certain ph levels. yea so this is what we have a test on tomorrow...PEACE OUT FROM THE CHEESER!!

Like Dissolves Like

In Chemistry we are learning about dissolving.
Dissolving is when a solute breaks down in a solvent, to create a solution.
"Like Dissolves Like" is a saying, that chemists use to say that "polar" solutes best dissolve in "polar" solvents, and "nonpolar" solutes dissolves best in "nonpolar" solvents. One cool thing we learned was that water is the universal solvent. We are also learning how to find the %, pph, or ppm of a solute, solvent or solution. ITS PRETTY AWESOME i guess...............