Baking soda and vinegar bomb?

Question

how to make a good baking soda and vinegar bomb

Answer 1

if you put it in a sealed glass jar with a screw on lid (not a cork) it can be very dangerous

it is stupid to play with exploding glass

didn't your mother ever warn you that that with that kind of thing you can "get your eyes poked out"

well, you really can, flying glass is very dangerous

Answer 2

Ok! Here's whatcha do!
- 2 Tbsp. baking soda in one cup
- 4 Tbsp. vinegar in another cup
I tested this in advance to see that when mixed the bubbles filled the cup, but didn't overflow.

In front of each child, I put the cup with the vinegar on top of a paper towel. Then I asked them to make observations about what was in the cup.

Q: What does it look like? What does it sound like? What does it *smell* like?
A: It looks and sounds like water. It smells yucky, like oil (sometimes it is mixed with oil and put on salads), like stinky socks (maybe your socks!)...

I told them that it was vinegar. Most had never heard the word. I really wanted to tell them what vingar was, but I didn't know, so I settled for reading the ingredients. I talked about some uses of vinegar and we had a great discussion of pickles and what people did before they had refridgerators.

Then we passed out the cups of baking soda, and told them to wait until everyone had one, and on the count of three they could pour all the baking soda into the vinegar. Wow!

We got them to talk about what happened. Some cups overflowed. There were bubbles. What's in a bubble? We talked about the difference between solid, liquid and gas. (I wish I had known better definitions of these, but we muddled through it.)

Next we did another experiment that I told them I had never tried before. I put vinegar in the bottle and baking soda in the balloon, then fastened the balloon over the mouth of the bottle and mixed the two. The balloon inflated about half way and the kids were wildly impressed. Everyone wanted to feel the balloon. We repeated the experiment with more baking soda and more vinegar and saw the ballon inflate even more.

We had just enough time (and baking soda and vinegar) to let everyone mix them again themselves. We didn't measure so precisely this time, so there were more overflows, but that just added to the fun.

Answer 3

There was a bubbling volcano at EVERY science fair we had. It's easy...put baking soda in a bowl. Add vinegar...

Answer 4

uhh, you can't make a bomb out of that! all you're doing is causing Carbon Dioxide gas to form. You'd need a lot of each to make enough to cause any disturbance past a small balloon popping.

Answer 5

I wouldn't exactly call it a bomb-but I use 1-part of each , to clean flower vases . It does sort of erupt .More like a volcano .

Answer 6

well, first you'd need a few materials, such as:
a beaker,
300mL vinegar
baking soda
and newspaper.

I f you'd want colour, then add food colouring**

now, prepare your beaker and add all the baking soda you have.
add the food colouring, then the vinegar

and run away, that's it

Answer 7

I though it was one of those mini "volcanoes" they used to make in science class

Answer 8

heres an idea.......put drano in a 2 liter bottle......put some foil in it....then add water ....put the lid on a shake.......then throw to desired location and BOOM the bottle explodes with a huge boom!!

Answer 9

It just spills everywhere.