Milk to Plastic: Fun Chemistry Experiment
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The infinitely small
The solid and the fragile
simple experience With this experience you will learn about Chemistry.
Milk that turns into plastic
Common plastics
they are manufactured from Necessary materials
a liquid, oil. What is there
what to do to make a liquid 1 tablespoon of vinegar
1 saucepan
become solid? 1 small mold
1/4 of a liter of milk
1 small strainer
The experience
This experiment is conducted in the presence of an adult.
Ask the adult to heat the milk without boiling it.
Pour the tablespoon of vinegar into the milk and stir it. What do you observe?
Pass the contents through the strainer and let it drain well.
Pour the obtained dough into the mold and let it dry. You can speed up the drying by placing the mold close to a radiator or heater.
What did you get?
The explanation The application
The milk turned into a kind of plastic ball! The person responsible for the transformation of
petroleum in plastic is also a reaction
You made plastic milk and biodegradable. A chemical reaction occurred and the chemistry: the polymerization that unites the
vinegar coagulated the milk: lumps formed in the liquid and stuck together identical small molecules (the monomers),
forming an elastic ball. forming a huge molecule called
polymer that has the appearance of a
The milk proteins, caseins, clumped together and bonded with each other. very long chain. The polymers are mixed
around the fat content of the milk. With caseins, manufacturers of inextricably linked to each other and make up the
Cheeses are made... the cheeses. solid and compact plastic.
Introduction
History file [Link]
Children's Museum of Caracas (2002)
Based on MILSET: 'The infinitely small',
The practical encyclopedia "The Little Resourceful Ones",
Future Sheet [Link],AlbinMichael,1999.