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I wish I knew a fun, safe experiment with acetic acid.  The only one I know is vinegar and baking soda (volcano) which isn't too exciting since kids in elementary school do that.  My only other experience is we used to use glacial acetic acid to extract THC out of urine samples so they could be read on the GC/MS. 

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People smoke and do all sorts of things they know are bad for them, and science can be an obsession so eh why not? Neither of us know her.

lunar, what sort of experiment or project is fun to you?

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Acetate salts can be made using acetic acid, the metal, and peroxide.

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To answer your question Indie I don't really do a lot of fun experiments I guess. My experience with chemistry has come from working at forensic and environmental labs (I majored in Biology).  I do enjoy my work very much but what I do probably wouldn't "wow" anybody.
To get back on subject I did think of an experiment with acetic acid though.  You can oxidize pennies with it in a solution of H₂0₂ (hydrogen peroxide) and acetic acid.  If you let the solution sit there for awhile and evaporate you get blue copper acetate crystals.  Or you can drop other metals in the solution such as Fe, Zn, or Pb and they will become plated with copper.  So you can copper-plate a quarter if you wanted to.  The reason this happens is because those metals are above Cu on the metal activity series, so the metals atoms will replace the Cu ions in the solution.  For example for Iron:
Fe(s) + Cu(II)(aq) = Fe(II)(aq) + Cu(s)

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People smoke and do all sorts of things they know are bad for them, and science can be an obsession so eh why not? Neither of us know her.

Suicide is an obsession and a science all in one!