Team name Period Date Student names.
White Powder labs		Sample #

You are going to get an unknown white powder and will be creating a web page, which describes it. Some of the powder may be dangerous if ingested either on purpose of accidentally. Do not even fake tasting it!

Physical description Use at least 4 descriptive words to give a Physical description of powder (soft, clumpy, sticky, fine, granular…)

Describe its shape.

What does it smell like?

Use the ProScope to take pictures of it at the magnifications as indicated below.

0 M	50 M
100 M	Video of burning

Come up to the teacher lab desk and burn your sample. Be sure to take a video of the burning. Instructions are up there.

Was there a color change of the flame when you burned the material? If so what colors did you see?

What did it smell like? (Do not stick your nose directly into the flame.)

Explain 3 more things that make your powder unique