Polymers - Making Fluorescent Worms Classroom Kit
Item # 60-0008
Students will love creating fluorescent worms while learning about cross-linking and polymers. Add sodium alginate to calcium chloride solutions with fluorescent dyes, watch the worms form, and see them glow red, blue, and green under black light! A colorful, hands-on way to introduce polymer science.
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Additional Details
A Fun & Colorful Chemistry Experiment!
Dive into the world of polymers and cross-linking with this hands-on, glow-in-the-dark activity! Students will add a sodium alginate solution to calcium chloride solutions, each with a different fluorescent dye, and watch as it forms into gel-like polymer worms. The best part? These worms glow in vibrant red, blue, and green when placed under a black light!
- Colorful Learning – Watch as the solution transforms into glowing worms in real-time, illustrating polymerization and cross-linking in an engaging, visual way.
- Hands-On Chemistry – Engage students with an experiment that makes complex polymer science easy to grasp through colorful, interactive play.
- Multiple Experiments – The kit contains enough materials to create several dozen polymer worms, perfect for classroom groups or individual projects.
Ideal for chemistry, or STEM classes, this experiment makes learning about polymers both exciting and memorable!
What’s Included
- 6 g Sodium Alginate
- 1 L Calcium Chloride/0.1% Fluorescein, 0.1M
- 1 L Calcium Chloride/0.04% Rhodamine B, 0.1M
- 1 L Calcium Chloride/0.5% Quinine Sulfate, 0.1M
- 3 Empty bottles w/flip-top caps
- 6 Forceps
Materials Needed but not Supplied
- 3 Containers for calcium chloride solutions (such as beakers, glass jars, or plastictrays)
- Black light
Accessories
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