Jihad+L13


 * THE STUDY OF THE REACTION THAT ALKA-SELTZER TABLETS HAVE WITH WATER AND THE REACTION THAT BAKING POWDER HAS WITH VINEGAR IN A PLASTIC BAG **
 * Jihad L **
 * 2012-2013 **


 * ABSTRACT **

The study was to determine the reaction of an Alka-Seltzer and water in a plastic bag. Alka-Seltzer is made of mainly sodium bicarbonate and when mixed with water it produces carbon dioxide. Different amounts of water and vinegar were poured in to a bag with either Alka-Seltzer or baking soda. One really interesting result was that the hotter the water mixed with Alka-Seltzer the faster the bag explodes. This is because hot water dissolves the Alka-Seltzer faster and thus produces gas faster and explodes the bag quicker.


 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE COMMENTS **

An improvement to this experiment would be to have more experiments that use the water temperature as a variable. I think if I did this my experiments in this study would be more interesting. I think that if I involved more information on how the temperature of the water effected the out come the paper would also be better.

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