Chemicals React!!

Today in chemistry, we basically started where we'd left off yesterday in the Chemical Reactions lab.
First, we combined hydrochloric acid with 6 different substances to observe changes that would take place. The acid by itself was just a clear liquid. When litmus paper was inserted into it, the paper turned pink confirming that it was acidic. The acid was then mixed liquids like sodium hydroxide, which raised the temperature to 24.1°C; sodium bicarbonate, which caused bubbles and lowered the temperature; and silver nitrate, which caused the mixture to turn whiter. It was then mixed with solids like mossy zinc, aluminum and magnesium ribbons. The zinc blackened and fizzed, the aluminum bubbled, and the magnesium fizzed and rose to 37°C.
For the second part of the lab, we mixed cupric chloride with 6 substances. Initially, it was light blue with a temperature of 22.7°C. We mixed it with solids like aluminum shot, aluminum foil and zinc which all blackened and caused fizzing and bubbling. Then the cupric chloride was mixed with liquids. Ammonium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, and silver nitrate all caused different colored precipitates and temperature changes.
Finally, a flask had some cupric chloride put into it. A test tube was then filled with silver nitrate and placed into the flask and the two were mixed. The mixture turned blue and formed small precipitates.
And that's the way the cookie crumbles. The scribe for Friday will be Matt P.