Sandy Creek Students are On Fire for Chemistry

November 2, 2017 Submitted article
Student Sydney Cook takes a second turn to experience a safe combustion reaction with bubbles, part of a demonstration in chemistry class.

Student Sydney Cook takes a second turn to experience a safe combustion reaction with bubbles, part of a demonstration in chemistry class.

SANDY CREEK – Sandy Creek High School students won’t soon forget a recent chemistry class that demonstrated scientific concepts of dehydration, combustion, decomposition and redox.

Student Sydney Cook takes a second turn to experience a safe combustion reaction with bubbles, part of a demonstration in chemistry class.
Student Sydney Cook takes a second turn to experience a safe combustion reaction with bubbles, part of a demonstration in chemistry class.

Following appropriate safety procedures, students volunteered to hold bubbles lit on fire and not get burned.

This combustion reaction involves the chemical methane and bubbles produced by water vapor and oxygen gas mixed with dish soap.

Following each experiment, the students were tasked with identifying chemical equations, specific elements and chemical reactions.

To go along with the harvest season, another experiment involved catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by potassium iodide…inside of a carved pumpkin!

The students had to answer questions such as: is this an exothermic or endothermic reaction?

A chemistry class at Sandy Creek High School anticipates a chemical reaction that will cause a pumpkin to foam at the mouth.
A chemistry class at Sandy Creek High School anticipates a chemical reaction that will cause a pumpkin to foam at the mouth.

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