What is that white powder?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.

Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Before you add the iodine, vinegar or water you will need to divide each powder into 3.

Materials

1.  Baking soda
2.  sugar
3.  Salt
4.  Cornflour

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Steps

1. Get all the ingredients
2.  Get a piece of A4 paper
3.  Cut it into 4 squares
4. Write on the top on each paper the names of what we are putting on them
5. put the ingredients on them, Sugar, Salt, Baking soda, Cornflour
6.  Split the Powders into three groups.
7. Get water, vinegar and iodine
8.  pour water onto 1 of the three Points of the Ingredients. do this to all of the pieces of paper.
9. then pour vinegar on the second points on every one of the pieces of paper
10. then pour iodine on the third points of the ingredients on all of the peices of paper
they should all react in different ways, some of them will fizz some of them will do nothing and some of them might react in really slight ways

Findings:

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	course	colour	Cool	bubbles
Texture	Soft	sandy	crumbly	Firm
Smell	Disgusting	Yum	Yucky	Weird
Iodine	changed	darker	It spread a lot	soaked in
Water	Spread	black	changed	Sagged
Vinegar	change colour	saggy	bubble	nothing

Write a paragraph about your findings. it looks weird When it was changing because it looked like it went darker every time me TJ and Tai Done 1 each and they looked really cool

Making Sherbet

Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.

Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.

Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a ziplock bag, stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1.  Citric acid

2.  icing sugar

3.  baking soda

4.  raro

5.  ziplock bag

Steps

1.get the ingredients 
2. put 1 Tsp of Raro in
3. put 1/4 tsp of citric acid
4.  put in 1/4 tsp of baking soda in
5.  then mix it all together and eat it, its super fizzy

Findings:

Sherbet	Fizzy
Taste	Gross
Colour	White, pink

Conclusion

I really liked doing this because I was doing it with my friends and it worked out really well. we worked better than we ever have before.