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Foam Experiment With Hydrogen Peroxide

The experiment of making foam with hydrogen peroxide
Pour an appropriate amount of hydrogen peroxide solution into a clean container. This liquid is highly oxidizing, but decomposes slowly at room temperature.

Take a little manganese dioxide powder and add it slowly. In an instant, a large number of bubbles can be seen quickly gushing out of the solution, just like boiling water. This is because manganese dioxide acts as a catalyst to greatly accelerate the decomposition rate of hydrogen peroxide.

The reaction produces oxygen. Oxygen forms many tiny bubbles in the solution, causing a large number of white bubbles to bulge on the surface of the solution, like snow mountains, and continue to rise upwards.

This experimental phenomenon is significant enough to intuitively demonstrate the violent degree of decomposition of hydrogen peroxide under the action of a catalyst. It is an interesting example in chemical experiments, allowing people to deeply appreciate the wonders of chemical reactions.