Sherbet

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 

A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs.  You need to find out what white powder it is?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.

Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Before you add the iodine, vinegar or water you will need to divide each powder into 3.

Materials

1.  cardboard
2. sugar
3.  salt
4.  cornflower
5.  baking soda
6.   pen
7. magnifying  glass

Steps

1. Get a piece of card
2. spilt it into four groups
3.put all four ingredients on card
4. Look at with magnifying glass
5. experiment with
6. DONE!

Findings: I found that out the way you find what powder it was when put vinegar into the powder it fizzed when that fizzed up we tell it was baking soda

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	grains	grains	bits	bits
Texture	block	blocks	soft	soft
Smell	sweet	gross	disgusting	noting
Iodine	turned brown and speared	turned brown and spread	went solid	turned purple
Water	wet	wet	soggy	gross
Vinegar	wet	wet	fizzed	dissolved

dissolved
Write a paragraph about your findings. when you put water in the baking soda got soggy but vinegar did different reaction vinegar fizzed up but when you sugar it would to same thing.But it was different  for cornflour for water it went gross then for vinegar it dissolved.

Making Sherbet

Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.

Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.

Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1. baking soda

2.  powdered drink

3.  citric acid

4.  icing sugar 

Steps

1.Get snap bag lock the bag
2. add citric acid
3. add icing sugar 
4. add crystals
5. add baking soda
6. SHAKE!

Findings:I found that the sherbet had wired taste but fizzed in your mouth

Sherbet
Taste	weird
Colour	red