Chemistry outreach spent a session with room 10 and there teacher Jenny Harris looking at the colours we could make using plants from the science garden and some dilute acid and base.
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| A range of flowers we used |
The plants have one colour in acid and another in base but by mixing the solutions up we found they could create a range of colours.
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| Ladies Mantle |
Most of these plants worked nicely, although during the course of the experiment some colours were made and then used up ...
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| purple iris |
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| Rhododendron |
Rhododendron has a different dye than most of the other plants so it can only give a range of reds/ornages rather the the variety of other flowers.
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| Azalea |
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| Lavender |
The colours from lavender didn't come out too well but in real life there was a lovely range of blue/green and green colours.
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| Purple pansies |
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