Calcium Sodium Boron Copper Potassium Methanol Lighter 6 Glass Heet

1. Put heel in the 6 plates of

glass.

2. Then put in each of the plates

the chemicals.

3. Next with the lighter put fire in

each glass.

4. Finally wait that each flame

change of colors.

Procedure

Daniela Cantú #3

Laura Escárcega #7

Giuliana Ordaz #16

Melissa Peña #17

Maria Paula Martinez #11

Colored Flames

Materials:

Flame coloring is also a very

good way to show how chemicals

change with subjected to heat

and how they also change the

matter around them.These

packages of flame colorants are

tosed into the campfire. Although

these chemicals are very

effective at imparting their color

to an alredy existing flame these

substances are not flammable by

themselves.

*This are the colors that each

chemical do:

Sodium-red

Calcium-yellow

Boron-green

Copper-bleu

Potassium-purpule

Methanol-gray

Information

When a metal or metal salt is

burned, the input of thermal

energy raises the electrons in the

metal atom to a higher energy

state. These electrons cannot

remain in this excited state for too

long and will emit energy in the

form of light to return to the more

stable, grounded state. It is this

light we see when a metal atom is

burned in a flame.

Each metal has a characteristic

flame color which has been found

to be useful in identifying minerals.

What is Happening?

Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic

effect used in stage productions,

fireworks and by fire perfor