{"id":13611,"date":"2018-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2018\/11\/05\/fireworks-in-science\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:08:34","slug":"fireworks-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/fireworks-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today in science Year 7 explored some of the colours of fireworks, by flame testing metal salts to see what happens.<\/p>\n
Now they know that: strontium gives a strong red, lithium a more pinky red, potassium lilac, sodium gives yellow\/orange and copper gives various greens amongst others when put in the Bunsen flame.<\/p>\n
Technician Annabel also demonstrated iron filings that give the fizz to sparklers and magnesium that gives the bright white too.<\/p>\n
Now Year 7 will be able to identify the colours at the School's fireworks display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5 November 2018 Today in science Year 7 explored some of the colours of fireworks, by flame testing metal salts to see what happens….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-news-categories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n