Science Experiments

A few years ago when I was little and in kindergarten we made baking soda and vinegar volcanoes. My mother helped us make it because she was one of the teachers. The first thing we did was to make sure we actually had baking soda and vinegar before rushing out into the sandpit to make our own little volcanoes with holes in the middle. Then Mum came around and carefully placed baking soda inside and we each had a capful of vinegar poured in and when they overflowed we all rejoiced.

This was all due to a weak acid, or vinegar, reacting with the sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, and neutralizing it. The carbon dioxide that comes off of it is a gas and is the reason the solution bubbles and fizzes so basically a weak acid and a base reacted against each other to create the carbon dioxide fizz.