Maariyah's Reflection

In the science lab today, we were burning Metal Chlorides. One of the chlorides we burned was the Copper Chloride. One of the main things I noticed during this experiment was the color of the flames. With the Copper Chloride, different shades of blue and green appeared.

I believe our experiment was a not quite accurate representation of the colors of the stars. This is because, the colors of stars are made depending its heat. For example, hot stars are blue, medium hot stars are white, and cooler stars are red. Whereas the Copper Chloride was the color green-ish blue. If that was a star it would be quite hot, but every chloride we burned was all at the same temperature, but all the different chlorides we burned, were different colors. 

In conclusion we can say that, our experiment wasn't accurate because stars have certain colors because of different temperatures, whereas our experiment had different colors but all in the same temperature.  

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