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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Tested Demonstrations
Chemical Domino Demonstration
M. Dale Alexander
New Mexico State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Box 30001, Department 3C, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
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April 1998
Vol. 75 No. 4
p. 490
Abstract
The Chemical Domino Demonstration is both educational and entertaining. It provides an excellent means for a review of chemical concepts at the conclusion of a general chemistry course. This demonstration consists of a number of different chemical reactions occurring in sequence in a Rube Goldberg-type apparatus. These reactions include the reduction of water by an active metal, the oxidation of a moderately active metal by an acid, reduction of metallic ions by a metal of greater activity, acid-base neutralization reactions in solution monitored with indicators, a gas-phase acid-base neutralization reaction, decomposition of a compound, precipitation of an insoluble salt, substitution reactions of coordination complexes, and pyrotechnic oxidation-reduction reactions including a hypergolic oxidation-reduction reaction, an intramolecular oxidation-reduction reaction, and the combustion of a flammable gas.
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