Our Mega Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment Results: More vinegar is better. A 12 to 1 ratio of vinegar to baking soda caused a fizzing explosion!
Step 1: First, place an empty plastic bottle in a mound of sand. Step 2: Use a funnel to add some baking soda to the bottle. Step 3: Mix some food coloring and vinegar together and pour this mixture inside the bottle and watch your volcano erupt!
1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) 1 tbsp washing up liquid. 2 tbsp water. ½ cup vinegar.
Baking Soda + Vinegar —-> Carbon Dioxide + Water + Sodium Ion + Acetate Ion.
The mixture quickly foams up with carbon dioxide gas. If enough vinegar is used, all of the baking soda can be made to react and disappear into the vinegar solution. The reaction is: Sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid reacts to carbon dioxide, water and sodium acetate.
Mixing baking soda with apple cider vinegar may lead to a chemical reaction that produces gas, which might cause bloating in people who ingest the mixture. These two kitchen ingredients may also interact with certain medications and cause side effects of varying severity.
Baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid; when the two are combined, you get a fizzy chemical reaction that has some properties that can eat away at a clog. However, when you use this combination to unclog a drain, it's just plain ineffective.
Mix vinegar, dish soap, a few drops of water, and a few drops of red food coloring in a plastic cup. Add 1 teaspoon ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda into a small, empty plastic cup. Place this cup into the volcano crater. Quickly pour vinegar mixture into the ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda cup in the crater.
In this simple variation, you'll mix the baking soda with water to make a slurry which will be added at the end (you'll need a clean plastic cup and a spoon to mix it). You'll also be using a smaller bottle, so the explosion will seem bigger.
Conclusion? The best and foamiest baking soda and vinegar eruptions are made by reacting baking soda with vinegar that has a few drops (AKA one squirt) of soap mixed into it.
The mixing of the baking soda and vinegar are creating a chemical reaction! The two ingredients are creating carbon dioxide gas. The gas fills the baggie and then runs out of room causing the explosion- POP!
Mixing those two ingredients will get you a reaction, but it won't taste good. In the right amounts and containers, the mixture can even be downright explosive! Baking soda and vinegar react chemically because one is a base and the other is an acid. Baking soda is a basic compound called sodium bicarbonate.
Although mixing vinegar and baking soda is not considered dangerous, you should still avoid mixing these in a container. Vinegar is acidic and basic soda is basic, so the by-products are sodium acetate, carbon dioxide, and water that are not toxic.
STEP1 - Fill your glass just over half full with water and add a good few drops of food colouring. STEP2 - Pour just less than 1 quarter cup of vegetable oil into the cup. It will soon settle out to form a layer on top! STEP3 - Sprinkle a good dollop of salt on into your cup to start making your lava!
As magma rises and pressure is released, gas bubbles (mainly of water vapor and carbon dioxide) form and expand rapidly, causing explosions. Magmas with high silica content tend to erupt violently, because they are viscious.
Results: Baking soda and vinegar both have to be the same amount to cause the biggest eruption. However when we put the baking first and vinegar next it caused more carbon dioxide which meant a bigger eruption. When we put vinegar first it fizzed a little bit but not as much as when baking soda was first.
Another way to get a slower, more realistic eruption is to react baking soda and ketchup. Ketchup is an acidic ingredient, so it reacts with baking soda to produce carbon dioxide gas, just like vinegar or lemon juice. The difference is that it's thicker and natural lava-colored.
While the baking soda and vinegar solution is effective in breaking down a clog, it will also cause your drain to become more damaged. The baking soda's abrasive nature will wear down your drain over time. This is why you should avoid using baking soda and vinegar solution for cleaning out your drain.
Cover with the drain plug and wait 5 to 10 minutes.
Leave it in the drain for an hour or two or overnight, and then flush the drain with hot tap water. For larger drains, such as tubs and kitchen sinks, use about a quarter-cup of baking soda, a half-cup of water to move the powder down, and 2 cups of vinegar.