How to Make a Volcano For School

Do you need to make a volcano as a school project? I have some great tips when I have made for my class project.  Here that will help you do really good on your school project. There are some significant things to think about when you are making a volcano. First things this is a learning project and it will help you learn a few different things.

You will learn how a volcano works, you will learn a little bit about chemical reactions, and you will learn how to make something

 1. Make it a learning project so you can show what you educated and teach others.

 The first thing you should think about is how a volcano works and how you will describe this in your project. You should do some research on volcanos and how they work but I also have something that will help a lot for others.

2. The Chemical effect of Baking Soda and Vinegar:

Vinegar is an acid, and baking soda is a base. When you mix the two you get an acid base effect.

What happens is that the end result of this mixing creates rather called Carbonic Acid. This Carbonic Acid quickly molders into carbon dioxide and water. The carbon dioxide (CO2) is what causes the bubbling in the water. Here is a look at it:

Vinegar is acetic acid: CH3COOH Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate: NaHCO3 Mixing the two is an acid base reaction. CH3COOH + NaHCO3 --gives you---> CH3COONa + H2CO3 that last product is carbonic acid which quickly molders into carbon dioxide and water: H2CO3 ---> H2O + CO2 The CO2 is what you see foaming and bubbling in this effect.

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