Essay On Alka Seltzer

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The science project I am going to conduct contains me trying to find which amount of surface area of an Alka-Seltzer tablet gives off the most gas bubbles once I drop the tablet into water. The Alka-Seltzer tablets will be crushed into different equal surface areas ranging from crushed to cut in halves or in quarters. After that I will then add the Alka-Seltzer tablets inside of the balloon.(¨Bubbles, Gas, and Balloons¨) I am going to measure the amount of gas bubbles the Alka-Seltzer tablet gives off by attaching a balloon to the top of my Erlenmeyer flask and then measure the circumference.

ALKA-SELTZER The Alka-Seltzer tablet is a medicine tablet taken by people as an antiacid to help calm down stomach acids which can lead to heartburn.(¨Carbonation Countdown¨) The Alka-Seltzer tablet is also used as a pain reliever. The pain reliever has aspirin and citric acid in it while the antiacid also has citric acid but instead of aspirin the antiacid has sodium bicarbonate, which is also known as baking soda. The Alka-Seltzer tablet was first created by a chemist working for the company Miles Laboratory named Joseph Maurice Treener. (¨Who invented Alka Seltzer¨) Treener discovered that if he added sodium bicarbonate to aspirin it would create a tablet that works wonders to …show more content…

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