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Mystery Mixture Lab Report

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Observations about Mystery Mixture:
The larger one resembles a crystallized mixture white, some parts look translucent a little bigger than granulated sugar shines a little the crystals (about 2mm in length, but the size depends on every crystals)

The powder one while other is a fine powder no noticeable aroma the powder sticks to the larger clumps, covering the surface looks like powdered sugar

Water added to mystery mixture:
White
Fizzing
You could see bubbles
The cup got colder, was a endothermic reaction, which used up energy from the environment, sucked the heat out.
Sizzling sound
Smelled like a soda or lemonade
Then when down into a murky white mixture
After it resembling water, with bubbles under the surface …show more content…

When settled down, it had a variety of different sized suspended bubbles. Water was cold.
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Mystery Mixture
Mystery Mixture
The same this happened, water started to grow, not as well, but still with the same principle. Afterwards, the water stopped bubbling and looked like water with still bubbles
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sodium carbonate citric acid
Foam began to rise, then decreased creating small bubbles, that did not look as big as the ones in the mystery mixture. A little powder was left at the bottom
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Mystery Mixture
Mystery Mixture
Got cold, bubbled and fizzed. Then turned into clear water and had bubbled on the sides

Answer the following questions:

How did you choose these tests to do?
I looked at what the uses were in everyday life and compared it to how the mixture reacted. For example, citric acid is used in sodas, the mystery mixtures had bubbled resembling soda, so I made an inference that the two correlate and that is why we used citric acid as one of your first experiments.

What are bubbles? Small pockets of the specific liquid, that contains trapped gas, that is then released to the

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