Reactions With Dry Ice by Logan

Reactions With Dry Ice by Logan - August 2013 Scholarship Essay

The most interesting lesson that I have learned in a class was a pair of many demonstrations that my chemistry teacher did for Halloween. There were many that he did, from lighting bubble on fire to popping a cork off of a glass beaker using increasing pressure. But my favorite of them all was the two he did using dry ice. For the first one he had us warm up some coins in our hands and pockets then jam them into the dry ice as hard as we could. The coins would then start to shake violently as they embedded themselves into the ice. The next demonstration he used the dry ice for required two blocks of it, as well as several strips of magnesium. He first set the strips of magnesium on top of the first block of dry ice, then he quickly put the other block on top of the first block and the magnesium. Before long, the dry ice and magnesium started to produce a white light. It was one of the brightest things I had ever seen, so much in fact, we could only look at it with our peripheral vision! This will always be one of my favorite things from any of my science classes.