Magnesium Lab

Safety: you will need to wear goggles make sure long hair is tied back and when the Magnesium lights make sure not to look directly at it.
Materials needed: you need a ring stand, one gram of magnesium, a Bunsen burner, and some batteries and wire.
Procedure the first thing you need to do is find a crucible and weight it using a scale Setup a ring stand over a Bunsen burner and place clay triangle on the stand and Attach the Bunsen burner to gas Do Not turn the Gas on yet. Find and weight magnesium ribbon Place ribbon in crucible Turn gas on and light the Bunsen burner Adjust heat so the tip of the flame barely touches the bottom of the crucible you should have a blue flame then let it heat for 2-3 minutes. Wait for magnesium to burn out Weigh the crucible after it has cooled off and compare with beginning weight plus the weight of the ribbon mix the water and magnesium and stir Take a light strip and strip the ends and connect them to clamps and place them in the mixture Take the other ends and hook them to batteries and see if a light goes on inside one of the lights When cleaning out crucible dump mixture in TRASH and wipe out carefully with a paper towel.
Results For my results I noticed that the crucible was the same after igniting the magnesium as it was before if you would add the weight of the crucible and the ribbon.