Sunday, March 16, 2008

Rust Red, white, Black, Blue, Yellow

This entire art project we have been creating primary colors except for White & Black. This has been a very awesome experience because I mean if you want to paint something why not just go to the store and get the paint you want. But it is alot funner to create your own paint because you get to mess with different chemicals. But making these paints may be a bit dangerous if you don't do it safely. The reason I say this is because we were making lead yellow so we had to take more safety tips. Before we even made the lead yellow we had to wear goggles, and have gloves on even if you weren't going to be working with it.

We also made black and I thought that making this one was alot more fun because once the acid was pored into the white powder and was stirred it had this nasty smell but then it started raising up from the beaker and when it was done reacting and we would touch the beaker it was pretty hot. We also had to use goggles before making this black paint and we had to wear gloves not just any type of gloves we had to wear like dish washing gloves due to the fact that we were working with acid.

The only thing that I didn't like was that we had to write down the procedure , observations, balance any chemical formulas if needed, and find the moles of certain formulas with certain grams. Other then that it was a pretty cool experience.

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