Mole Day ideas?

Question

I have an idea for it already, making a scavanger hunt with normal household items using chemical symbols (ex. "Find something that contains NaCl) but I don't know how to go about doing that.

I can't find anywhere on the internet anything about it, like different compounds or elements that the products contain, any help here?

Answer 1

I'll tell you what - why don't you make out your list of chemicals, and we will tell you what (if any) household products contain them.

Answer 2

Look at the labels on bottles and packets. The small print should give you some clues.
Your example (NaCl) is sodium chloride, which is common table salt.
Other possibilities are.
Baking Soda - Bicarbonate of soda - Sodium hydrogen carbonate (NaHCO3)
Washing Soda - Sodium Carbonate(Na2CO3)
Washing soap - Sodium Sterate (Na+CH3(CH2)12COO-)
Bottles water - many different substances dissolved in water depending on its origin.
Window cleaning spray - possibly isopropyl alcohol.
If you have medicines/tablets in the house try and decipher the names eg. ibuprofen. probably has the functional groups isobutyl, propyl, phenyl.
In the medicine cabinet, there may be hydrogen peroxide, and propanone(Acetone - smells like pear drops).

Hope that helps !!!

Answer 3

well, my school actually requires us to make a scavenger hunt. difference is in ours we pick an empty locker and make up 10 clues to get there. ex. clue 1.: go 246 steps west clue 2.: go 320 steps north, etc.. 11th clue is the locker number and the 12th-14th are the numbers to the combination. we hide something mole-themed in the locker and they have to figure out what it is with relevance to moles (guacaMOLE, a raMOLEs poster, a baseMOLE bat, etc.)..................................oh, and after we decide how many steps they have to go, we turn that into a question (120 moles of Helium + 6 moles of Hydrogen: go this many steps west). hope this helps and isn't too long or confusing :o)