experiment-kyah

In the lab, we did an experiment burning metal chlorides and seeing if they were an actual representation of the colours of stars. The metal chlorides we used were potassium, lithium, copper, magnesium, strontium,sodium, and assessed to see if the chloride burned a colour accurate to the stars. The copper chloride burned a green colour similar to the colour it was as a solid, while the magnesium was a purple colour,

In conclusion, i believe that the experiment, while it was fun, is an inaccurate representation of the colours of stars, as colours of stars change colours due to the heat, and we kept it on a consistent heat, so it would not have changed, unlike the experiment.