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Baking Soda Hypothesis

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When baking soda and vinegar mixes, a chemical change occurs. So how much baking soda, added to 10mL of compound vinegar( CH3CooH), will cause a film canister to shoot the furthest? I thought the answer to this question was 15mL of baking soda will shoot the lid of the film canister the furthest because there will be a longer reaction with more baking soda which will propel it far. This change happens because of they both have reactivity that causes the chemical change and shoots off the lid. The independent variable is the amount of baking soda and the dependent variable is how far the lid shoots. The amount of compound baking soda( NaHCO3) varied during several tests to see how far the lid would shoot from the end of the table to the back wall. Evidence that this reaction has taken place is the change in odor, color, and the appearance of gas or bubbles.
Materials:
Vinegar
• Baking soda
• Film canister
• Paper towels
• Measuring tools
• Goggles
Methods:
1. Pour out 10mL of vinegar into the film canister, it should fill up about one fourth of the canister.
2. Put your of baking soda and pour it out …show more content…

I think the reason for this is because we put less paper towel in the canister which allowed more gas to build up, causing a more forceful and farther shot. This would make sense because the gas made by the vinegar and baking soda mixing is what caused the lid to fly off. 15mL would not leave enough room for enough gas to be produced to shoot very far and 3mL would not cause a big enough reaction to shoot the lid extremely far, so that’s why in between those two numbers, 9mL, was the best for shooting the lid the farthest and why my hypothesis was

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