Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Y8 reduce copper oxide 

Y8 used carbon to reduce copper oxide

This is the copper oxide - a black powder

This is carbon - a grey/black powder

they were mixed together in a test tube

and heated very strongly

Soon a glow spread through the mixture

And it was time to tip the products out of the test tube

Examining them closely we found there were tell tale pinky brown signs that we had made copper

Copper oxide + carbon => copper + carbon dioxide

Another successful experiment