A few weeks ago i read threads about chemistry sets today being too tame. However there is a big jump between the C1000, and the C2000 from the C3000. THE C3000 contains the following experiments:
- Sulfur Dioxide
- Ignitition of Magnesium Strips
- Oxygen from Potassium Permanganate
- Hydrogen from Zinc Powder
- Luminol Cold Light
- Hydrogen Chloride Gas
- Homemade Hydrochloric Acid
- Chlorine Gas from a Flashlight Battery
- Chlorine Gas from a Potassium PErmanganate and HCl
- Hypochlorous Acid
- Iodine Solution
- Hydrogen Sulfide
- Sodium Hydroxide
- Dilute Bromine Solution
- Bromine Water
- Ethylene
- Iodoform
- Dry Distillation of Wooden Boards
- Coal Distillation
- Baeyer's Reagent
- Ethyl Acetate
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Hmmm. What experiments could these be?
- Sulfur Dioxide (Burning some sulfur powder in air and running the SO2 through distilled water with an indicator in it).
- Ignitition of Magnesium Strips (Simple enough. Ignite some Mg ribbon).
- Oxygen from Potassium Permanganate (Add a few crystals of KMnO4 to some H2O2 and some VERY dilute H2SO4. Or, take your KMnO4 and slowly heat it up until it gives up the O2).
- Hydrogen from Zinc Powder (Throw some Zn powder into some HCl).
- Luminol Cold Light (Add a solution of H2O2 to a solution of Luminol. Light is given off).
- Hydrogen Chloride Gas (Add some concentrated H2SO4 to some dry NaCl. Gas given off is HCl).
- Homemade Hydrochloric Acid (Bubble your HCl through some distilled water).
- Chlorine Gas from a Flashlight Battery (Add some HCl to the MnO2 paste that is found in batteries. Cl2 is given off).
- Chlorine Gas from a Potassium PErmanganate and HCl (Pretty simple as the title gives it away.
Throw some HCl onto some KMnO4).
- Hypochlorous Acid (Bubble some chlorine gas through some water).
- Iodine Solution (Put iodine crystals into some water and add a few specks of KI to get it to dissolve).
- Hydrogen Sulfide (Add an acid to any sulfide, but do NOT do this without a great deal of ventillation. H2S is as deadly as HCN).
- Sodium Hydroxide (Good ol' Draino.
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- Dilute Bromine Solution (Bubble some chlorine gas through a bromide salt solution. Bromine will form and go into solution).
- Bromine Water (Bubble a lot of Cl2 through a bromide solution until a good layer of Br2 has formed at the bottom. Pippette the Br2 into a clean beaker of water. Now if you add the bromine water to an organic compound with unsaturated C-C bonds, the bromine color will disappear as it adds to the molecule).
- Ethylene (Add concentrated ethanol and sulfuric acid together with some powdered aluminum sulfate. Pass the gas through some NaOH and H2C=CH2 will be the result).
- Iodoform (Add iodine solution to ethanol and sodium hydroxide. CHI3 will form).
- Dry Distillation of Wooden Boards (Take some pieces of dry wood and put in a test tube. Heat it with a torch until the wood darkens and emits a vapor. The vapor is methanol and water, and the darkened substance is activated charcoal).
- Coal Distillation (Same as with the wood, only this time some methane gas is produced from the process).
- Baeyer's Reagent (Pretty much the same thing as the bromine water. When added to an unsaturated hydrocarbon, the color will dissapear as it saturates the organic compound).
- Ethyl Acetate (Mix anhydrous ethanol and acetic acid in a flask and add a few drops of sulfuric acid. Heat this for a while and vapors of ethyl acetate will come out of the mixture).
All good, classic experiments.
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