WHAT IS CHEMISTRY?
Traditionally chemistry is the busiest of the departments!
It deals with your glucose tests, your electrolytes, and so many more!
Another cool thing about the Chemistry lab, is you examine all different types of specimens like urine, blood, CSF and more!
BUT in our lab, we like to examine fun things like sugars, crystals, and sometimes even salt!
In the Candy Lab, urine is just candy syrup — and its color changes depending on what candy ingredients are floating around inside it... Different mixes = different colors = different clues!
When you Dip Cotton candy in water it dissolves
TRY IT FOR YOUR SELF!!!
As we just saw, certain candies have the ability to change the color of water creating different types of syrups!
Normal
Sometimes our syrups can be a funky color which requires us to have a closer look and see what ingredient are causing that color change
*ALARM*
we need to take a closer look
here you’re checking if the candy syrup is too sour, too sweet, or just right
Now it is time to find out what this all means...
Lets dip a sour rainbow strip into the syrup and watch the color change
LETS DIP AND WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN!!
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The different colors of our rainbow strip tells us more information of what's inside our syrup
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From there we need to get a closer look for a better understanding of our candy
Here are some things we can expect to see when taking a closer look...
ROCKETS
CRYSTALS
can appear in different shapes and colors
most commonly seen if our syrup is red
RED SWEDISH BERRIES
they are fast movers so make sure you pay attention or else you could miss them!
WORMS
PULLAPART TWIZZLERS
SPARKLY SUGARS
these can be seen in the background of our syrups
are hard to see with an untrained eye... see if you are able to spot them!
Now lets have a look at one of our *alarm* syrups
Did you see anything strange... because I sure did!
There appears to be some candy bugs in our syrup - YUCK!!
If we see this, it's not a good sign as we do not want creepy crawlies in our syrup
Good thing we took a closer look at our weirdly colored syrups, otherwise we would have missed this diagnosis!