Looking Back: What Happened?
For this project our goal was to put out a burning candle using CO2, we got the CO2 by mixing baking soda and vinegar because when you do that it emits CO2. The experiment worked out well, the problem is it took a while for us to finally get our desired results but eventually we got it. Looking Beyond: What's the science? In order to extinguish the candle you have to make CO2, we got that by mixing baking soda and vinegar. The reason why the carbon dioxide does this is because it's heavier than air, which makes it sit in the bottom of the glass. The carbon dioxide sinks and replaces the air that's around the candle exchanging it with carbon dioxide, which suffocates the flame causing it to extinguish. Looking Inward: Did you get desirable results? Yes we did get desirable results, it took a while but we eventually extinguished the candle. I think the reason we got the results we wanted was because we had a lot of patience, we tried about four times before it worked, then Andrew came and it worked for him on his first try. Then we tried like three more times and it finally worked which was really cool, the reason why it took us a while was because we took too long to pour the carbon dioxide so it had already gone into the air. Looking Outward: Collaboration and Impact For this project I worked with Savreen, Autrina, and Evan. It was cool to work with different people and we all get along really well so there wasn't any conflict. We all worked together to find the materials we needed, and when it came to pouring the CO2 we each gave it a go until we could make it happen. I helped with mixing the materials, and I also was the first person other than Andrew to actually make the experiment work. Looking Forward: What's next? There's not much we can do to continue this project because it was a one time thing, if anything we might be able to do more with baking soda and vinegar to learn more about carbon dioxide. There are also projects about other gasses that can be done to learn about more gasses as well. Takeaways: Summary We started off with getting all of the materials needed, which was just baking soda, vinegar, beaker, candle, and a lighter. After we got all of the materials we lit the candle with the lighter and then we poured some baking soda and vinegar in the beaker and quickly tried pouring the gas over the flame. Like I mentioned before it took us multiple tries to actually get this to work but when it did it was very exciting.
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