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Chemistry for Everyone
Tested Demonstrations
Chemical Demonstrations with Consumer Chemicals: The Black and White Reaction
Stephen W. Wright
Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, CT 06340

checked by: Wyatt D. Cotton
Sciences Division, Cincinnati State College, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Vickie G. Hess
Department of Chemistry, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN 46953-4999

Cover
January 2002
Vol. 79 No. 1
p. 44

Abstract
A color-change reaction is described in which two colorless solutions are combined to afford a black mixture. Two more colorless solutions are combined to afford a white mixture. The black and white mixtures are then combined to afford a clear, colorless solution. The reaction uses chemicals that are readily available on the retail market: vitamin C, tincture of iodine, vinegar, ammonia, bleach, Epsom salt, and laundry starch.
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*  Citation
Wright, Stephen W. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 44.
*  Keywords
Consumer Chemistry; Demonstrations; Elementary / Middle School Science; General Chemistry; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Iodine; Outreach; Redox Reactions; Teaching / Learning Aids; Vitamins
*  History
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Last Updated:
December 3, 2001
March 16, 2005
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