What is that mysterious white powder?

Finding Out what's the Mysterious White Powder and Making some Sherbert

Bonjour! today in Science we are doing some experiments all about the guessing what's the White powder.

What is that white powder?

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 

A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs.  You need to find out what white powder it is?

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.  Iodine
2.  Vinegar

3.  Water
4.  Baking Soda

5.  Sugar
6.  Salt
7. Cornflour

8. A black A4 paper

9. Pencil - To label stuff

10. Magnifying Glass - To look at it closely

11. A mat - Just in case the liquid go through the Black paper.

12. Tablespoon - For scooping the ingredients

13. Dropper

Steps

1.  Get your A4 Black paper and Your Pencil/Pen

2. Divide your A4 Black paper into 4 sections

3. In the top of each section write Baking Soda, Cornflour, Sugar, and Salt write at least one of them in 1 section.

4. Get your Tablespoon and scoop all your ingredients (Baking Soda, Sugar, Salt and Cornflour) and put them in one of the boxes. Make sure to put them in their names.

5. Now it should look like this: Don't forget to put your map underneath so no any Liquid stuff would go through the table.

6. Now split each ingredient into 3 groups.

7. Get your Dropper and get Water, Vinegar, and Iodine using your dropper.

8. Put each liquid ingredients to one of the split 4 White powders and split again into 3 tiny sections each. 

9. See the reactions and record it.

Findings:

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	Tiny Perfect Cubes	Tiny but not so perfect cubes	Fluffy	FLUFFY
/Texture	Soft and Sandy	Soft and Sandy	Soft	VERY SOFT
Smell	Sweet	Salty	Disgusting	Nothing at all
Iodine	Colour Yellow Crystalize	Kinda Crystalize but not really	Yellow soggy thing	Oobleck
Water	Dissolved	Dissolve	Soggy	Oobleck
Vinegar	Crystalize but no Colour	Soggy	Fizzy	Oobleck

 

The experiment kinda went well, but some Iodine and other stuff went to the table and It's hard to clean it. I guess in cornflour whatever you add to it but It has to be liquid and It'll turn into an Oobleck.

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 zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1.  Tablespoon

2.  Zip bag

Steps

1. Get your Zip bag and Your tablespoon

2. Scoop all of the ingredients (Make sure they are all the same amount)
3. Put into the Zip bag
4. Then mix it real good
5. Then EAT It

Findings:

Sherbet
Taste	Sweet and Sour at the same time
Colour	Light Pink

Conclusion

It was kinda Sweet and Sour at the same time, But I eat anyway.

Bye Guys! I hope you learn something new and thank you for taking the time to read this LONG post.