Airbag+Chemistry+Engineering

Going beyond the classic baking soda and vinegar volcano.

Students design a miniature-prototype of a chemically inflated airbag that could be used to escape a burning building. Science involves chemistry, acid/base reaction, physical and chemical change and possibly pH. A graph is used to find an ideal solution(stoichiometry) to the problem of how much gas is needed to inflate an airbag. [] [] [] http://sciencenetlinks.com/student-teacher-sheets/its-crash-test-dummy-student-lab/

Exothermic Reaction http://www.inquiryinaction.org/classroomactivities/activity.php?id=24 more https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/bubblebomb.html





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