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Two "Gas-in-a-Bag" Reactions To Show the Predictive Power of the Relative Acid–Base Strength Chart
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Abstract
High-school chemistry curricula have often been maligned for being too long on theoryand too short on applied chemistry. Certainly, very little consideration is given in most curricula to the rich arena of descriptive chemistry, particularly helping students develop the skills of being able to predict products of chemical reactions and of using resource tables to reason which products are most likely to form. This article describes a relatively simple demonstration in which two different pairs of solid chemicals are mixed in two different Ziploc bags in the presence of a small quantities of water. In both cases, the chemicals react to produce gases that are trapped in and fill up the bags. Students are informed that the reactions producing those gases are Brønsted–Lowry acid–base type reactions. Given that all four chemicals have the potential to be amphoteric, students must determine which member in each pair will act as the acid and which as the base. Making this determination—and therefore the determination of the products—requires students to apply an understanding of the Relative Acid–Base Strength chart.
Keywords (Audience):
High School / Introductory ChemistryKeywords (Domain):
DemonstrationsKeywords (Feature):
JCE DigiDemos: Tested DemonstrationsKeywords (Pedagogy):
Inquiry-Based / Discovery LearningKeywords (Subject):
Acids / BasesCiting Articles
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This article has been cited by 1 ACS Journal articles (1 most recent appear below).
Students Doing Chemistry: A Hand-On Experience for K–12
Jodye I. Selco, Mary Bruno, and Sue ChanJournal of Chemical Education2012 89 (2), 206-210Students Doing Chemistry: A Hand-On Experience for K–12
Jodye I. Selco, Mary Bruno, and Sue ChanJournal of Chemical Education2012 89 (2), 206-210A hands-on, minds-on inquiry chemistry experiment was developed for use in K–12 schools that enables students to combine the chemicals of their choice and observe the results. The chemistry involved is water based and builds upon acid–base, double ...
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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