British Scientists Create Gasoline From Thin Air (And Water)!

By Meera Dolasia on October 22, 2012

Would you look at that? This is soo cool. How would you feel about making  your own fuel for your car? Well scientists are not quite sure yet if all the cars in the future are going to be able to use this awesome fuel but the race cars are for sure. Scientist found a way to produce their on fuel by mixing carbon dioxide with hydrogen and then, using a catalyst , it turns it into fuel. It doesn't create byproducts that are harmful when the fossils are burned down fro the normal fuel. I wondered if this is harmful to the environment but no. In fact it is good because it takes the carbon dioxide from the air we are breathing

 I think it is awesome how scientists' imagination is thinking. Making your own file? This is really cool. And the most important thing is that it is not harmful to our environment but in fact it helps it!

http://www.dogonews.com/2012/10/21/british-scientists-create-gasoline-from-thin-air-and-water

    

Highlighter Reactions

In class we did this cool lab were we took a white piece of white paper and made a dot with a highlighter. Then we put the tip of the paper on a cup with water. We observed that the highlight color was going up the paper while forming different shapes. Each color forms different shapes. We also learned that FBI and the police uses this method of what the reaction will be to see if the pen (for example that a note was written) is the same as  the suspect's and if the reaction is the same it means the pen (for example is the same)

Reaction Lab

Reaction 1:
glue+boron+ water= GAK

In class we did two awesome reactions. The first one we created GAK by adding water (that had baking soda in it) to glue and then boron. I observed that at the first part of the reaction where we add    water to the glue that as we stir it, it gets thinker and starting to get sticky. When we added the boron and stirred it for a while, it became very sticky, thick, bouncy and stinky. This is a reaction because there is a change in the matter- from liquid it became solid through covalent bonding















Reaction 2:

cu2+so4+zn(s)=cu(s)+ zn2+so4

The second cool excrement, we saw that the zink becomes darker,  bubbles are created and it dissolves. This is a reaction because the matter changed color.