Ap Chemistry Smoke Bomb Lab

Smoke Bomb Lab/ Post-Lab Homework
This smoke bomb lab helped me understand chemical bonding and reactions by starting from the very beginning with mixing the nitrate, sugar, and melted crayon. Mixing them formed a texture almost like powdery peanut butter with some liquid which was actually pretty interesting. The second chemical bonding I seen was that, once putting the solution in the tin-can and it started solidifying due to all the stuff we mixed together. It didn’t take long at all for it to start forming into a solid. When we went outside and lit the wick on fire showed the main chemical reaction throughout the whole experiment. The nitrate reacting with the lighted wick started a big fire in one of the groups cans but some of the other groups bombs didn’t get to light like it was supposed to and the wick just burned out. I was one of the groups whose bombs didn’t work properly. I think it’s because we didn’t put the wick in deep enough to our solution so when we lit it the fire just burned out before going into the solution.

When it comes to the observation part of forming the experiment as well as after the experiment was done, a lot of groups observed the same things. The most significant observations were we observed the

It also helped us see how other groups set up their experiment different and how some of the bombs didn’t go off like others did. Interacting with other groups helped us see what we did wrong and what we could’ve done to improve as well as also giving and receiving tips. Interacting with groups also kind of show us the technique of how scientist interact with other scientist during constructing their experiment. Getting other groups input on how they made their smoke bombs as well as if their smoke bombs worked probably and surely helped seeing why other groups didn’t