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Aidan wrote:

Baking soda and vinegar FTW.

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It's not a chemical reaction, but have you ever mixed cornstarch with water? It is pretty fun.

Try putting an acid-base indicator (like phenol red or phenolphthalein) in your vinegar and baking soda reaction. It will change colors. Of course, I guess that's three reactants, but it is cool.

I'm in Chemistry, so I know a lot of reactions, but I'll try to think of ones with common (and easy to pronounce) chemicals.

Last edited by scmb1 (2010-10-15 23:31:07)

coolstuff wrote:

One very dangerous chemical reaction we talked about in chemistry a few days ago was that of Sodium and Water. Don't try it at home!

Oh yeah, I remember that on mythusters. It could very well explode 

There's one thing I'm not clear on: sodium is salt, so what's the difference between table salt and sodium?

Last edited by samurai768 (2010-10-16 00:27:42)

S65 wrote:

Well, you gotta drink a lot of Diet Coke, and then Mentos.

samurai768 wrote:

Oh yeah, I remember that on mythusters. It could very well explode 

There's one thing I'm not clear on: sodium is salt, so what's the difference between table salt and sodium?

Table salt is basically NaCl (sodium chloride), not just pure sodium.

Oh, I see    That clears alot of things up