Recently in science we have been learning about the science of rockets, in PLP we have been learning about wonder and imaginary worlds so the idea of going to space by rocket kind of fit into that idea, in about just over a week we are going to Florida for 10 days. While in Florida we will be visiting the Kennedy space centre which is a big visitors centre where you can learn a lot about NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). In class we did an experiment where we got a sheet of aluminum foil, we had to fold it up and put it in a beaker of copper chloride, the aluminum broke down into a powder. We took out the big pieces so we could clean the powder. We washed the powder down with water several times, sadly me and my parter only got to this part, but from observing my friend Kyle they put the powder into another chemical: hydrochloric acid, this cleaned the metal so it would burn better. Finally we put the powder onto paper towel and picked it up with tongs. We held the powder over a Bunsen burner and watched it burn, the flames around the metal glowed green causing a chemical reaction. Down below there is a video my friend Kyle made showing what we did.
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