Introduction Have you ever had a refreshing bath with bubbles or bath salts? What if you could use chemistry to create a bath-time treat that incorporated both fizzing bubbles and soothing salts? Such a combination does exist, and it's called a bath bomb. If you have never experienced one, these "bombs" become fizzy when they touch the water. Why? It is due to a chemical reaction taking place between different ingredients within the bath bomb. In this activity you'll get to make your own homemade bath bombs and explore how changing the ratio of the ingredients affects how much the bath bomb fizzes when it comes into contact with water. Then you can use your perfected method to make some bath bombs as a gift for Mother's Day! Background Bath bombs can have a wide…
Bath salts is the name given to a class of drugs that has common manmade chemicals related to cathinone. Bath salts are a kind of synthetic drug with mood-altering and stimulant properties, typically in the form of crystals (). The bath salt drug can be confused for the salts that are used during bathing. The creators of the bath salt drugs mimic the appearance of the bathing salts. Both of the salts are tiny, white, powdery particles and are usually sold in transparent pouches. …
The purpose of the bath bomb experiment was to examine the fizz by adding extra cornstarch to the bath bomb recipe will affect the overall outcome. If there is more cornstarch added to the bath bomb, then the bath bomb will be less fizzy because cornstarch acts as a dry filler that controls the reaction between baking soda and citric acid. The experiment calls for two different recipes. The first one was the normal recipe which blue was used as the coloring. The other recipe was the extra…
Patricia Era Bath “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only sound left is your heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never know what it’s saying.” - Sarah Dessen. To make a change, one must learn the sound of their heart. Patricia Era Bath studied ophthalmology in Massachusetts at Harvard College in 1981 after she learned that African Americans have more eye problems than White People. Not many years afterward, she created the Laserphaco Probe. She…
story of a young woman who travels to Bath with her wealthy neighbours, and how she grows and matures into adulthood over the course of the book by taking responsibility for her many mistakes and actions. Predominantly, this essay is a tale of one girl’s maturity into a young adult. She makes very many mistakes along the path to growing up, however, she does show great responsibility by the end of the novel, so much as to win the heart of the man she loves. …
intelligent, graceful, creative, musical, or feminine Catherine is not the average heroine. Childless neighbors, the Allens, are travelling to Bath as recommended by their family doctor and inquire to take Miss Morland along. Excited to experience more than just her small town Catherine is dying to go. Once she has permission she cannot wait to enjoy the city highlife that Bath will bring her, or the possible romance. She goes to her first ball nervously awaiting her dream man to ask her to…
Persuasion In the book, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Austen’s book took place in rural Somersetshire in the eighteenth century. She also had scenes that continued into some from cities in rural Somersetshire, which are three locales in England. These three locales are completely different cities, with completely different living styles and very informative historical things to know about these cities. Around the time of publication of this book, England was a completely different country from what…
Impressions”). In 1803, Austen sold the original manuscript to Northanger Abbey (“Susan”) for ten euros for publication. Yet, was not published until the manuscript was bought back from the publishing company, after Austen’s death in 1817. In her late twenties, Austen moved to the city of Bath with her family after her father’s retirement. In 1802, Austen became a shining example of one of her leading ladies brought to life. She received a proposal from Harris Biggs-Wither, a marriage of the…
Bathing can be described to have been an integral activity of the Roman people. It is this trend that led to the emergence of baths. They have mainly used for both relaxing and cleaning purposes. In most cases, the baths comprised of different sizes and had different rooms. The rooms came with different temperature and offered swimming pool features. The demand for huge space of the Roam baths propelled the evolution of the Roman architecture (Nielsen, 1993). The Roman baths are credited for…
Roald Dahl was a short story writer, a poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. One of his books was called “The Landlady”. In his story, it talks about a lady around forty-five to fifty years old, living in a house by herself until someone came around. She seems too nice at first but later on in the story when the main character, Billy, comes around and stays with her, you will find out why the landlady usually never gets guests to stay at her house. In this story, “The Landlady,” Billy Weaver…