Alchemy Experiment

ALCHEMY

Today we are doing an experiment called Alchemy which means turning something gold, example coin which is gold turning into colour silver. We were in groups again but with different people, those two members in my group were Nykachia and Shontelle, we followed the steps to make this work and it was not that easy, so first we had to set up the Bunsen burners and when we finished setting it up it looked like the one on the top left corner but with the beaker on it and added 50ml of Zinc Nitrate into the beaker. Then we turned it on and started it with blue fire then added two metals into the boiling beaker, after a while, Shontelle added the 10c coin into the beaker and waited for 10 mins.

Ten Minutes Later...

After that ten minutes, I took out the coin from the hot boiling beaker and that was the tricky part because as we moved the coin the beaker moved with it and we could not touch the beaker because it is really hot. I managed to take it out and I held the copper coin under the water for a while to cool it down and after that Shontelle held the coin over the blue flame and it slowly changed colour to gold almost. Everything went well at the end. We may have found some challenges in the experiment but we all made it safely at the end.

Heres the coin