ScholAR Orange and Blue Reversible Redox Demonstration

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Available at Ward's Natural Science: wardsci.com The ScholAR Teacher Demonstration is the perfect supplement to your chemistry lectures. This kit • Comes with enough chemicals to perform each demonstration five to seven times. • Can be performed in just 10--30 minutes. • Requires only basic labware that you provide. Create orange-gold foam to generate enthusiasm in your students by adding hydrogen peroxide to a solution of sodium potassium tartrate. As you heat the solution, you add copper sulfate solution to turn the solution to a light blue color. Then, as you continue to heat the solution, it will foam and turn orange.