Chemistry Fun with Pennies

Submitted by Anhata on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 1:12pm

Just did these experiments with DD9, who had a blast. We cleaned pennies, patinized them, and copper-plated a steel screw! We're leaving one penny in the vinegar/salt solution overnight to see if it gets really well coated in verdigris. Then explained that this is why the Statue of Liberty is green. And added a small explaination of positive and negative charges to clarify the whole copper plating thing. Very easy, very successful science unit!

Comments

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject:

Smileys

Comment: *

Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Link to Amazon products with: [amazon product_id inline|full|thumbnail|datadescriptor]. Example: [amazon 1590597559 thumbnail] or [amazon 1590597559 author]. Details are on the Amazon module handbook page.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
You may quote other posts using [quote] tags.
Textual smileys will be replaced with graphical ones.

Notify me when new comments are posted

All comments

Replies to my comment

CAPTCHA

This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.