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.  Black paper
2.  Pencil
3.  Sugar
4.  Salt Baking soda 
5.  Cornflour 
6.  Magnifying Glass


Steps

1. Get black Paper
2. Draw lines
3. Write sugar salt corn flower Baking soda 
4. Put them on the black paper 
5. Look at it with a magnifying glass

Findings:

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	Grains	Grains	Bits	Bits
Texture	Cubic	Blocks	Soft	Soft
Smell	Sweet	Salty	Gross	Nothing
Iodine	Spread	Spread	Solid	Turned Purple
Water	Wet	Wet	Separated	Gross
Vinegar	Wet	Wet	Fizzed	Dissolved

Write a paragraph about your findings. 
The salt and the sugar where the same and the baking soda was the same as the cornflower. And then the sugar and salt where cubic shapes and they looked the same and the baking soda and the cornflower felt the same.

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.   Baking soda

2.  Citric acid

3.  Zip lock bag

4.  Spoon 

5.  Icing sugar

Steps

1. Get a zip lock bag

2. Get ingredients
3. Put in ingredients

4. And then shake it up

5. And then eat it

Findings:

Sherbet
Taste	Good
Colour Red

Conclusion

Hello my name is Jesse and I am Hornby High school last week for science we done the white powder blog. My group finished first and then we got to do another experiment my group was Cody Saia and Me and then we made sherbet and we got to eat it at Lunch time.