So in the SciMathics PLP class we were making our own Copper! So first we set off to grab all of our materials and we got to work, and then we took some aluminium foil and dropped it into copper Chloride, a blue compound.

It almost instantly started to get hot and boil into this brown (copper) mass

Once that was done we used some water and then some hydrochloric acid to purify the copper even more and once we took it out of the liquid, we let it settle then picked it up with crucible tongs and burned it on a Bunsen burner, it burned a beautiful green colour.

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Hello everyone, this is a special blog post as I have been learning and reading some very interesting things in Mr. Featherstone’s class. And if you want to read this article that we read and as you can see some questions below that I answered are about this article, https://aeon.co/essays/why-wonder-is-the-most-human-of-all-emotions
1) Prinzs experience with the Ringlings and Barnum and Bailey Circus was different then his parents, especially because it became part of his world and so much wonder! came with that, aside from his parents who thought differently and thought it was more pageantry.

2) Rolling of the eyes, suspension of the breath and swelling of the heart.

3) Francis Bacon considers wonder “broken knowledge”

4) Here was one of my own experiences of wonder for you readers to experience too!

I was on the stage of a crowd high over 3-4000 and I could feel the energy pulsating through me, I looked at all my band members, probably also very excited but some of them looked very scared. Then the show began and it was so built up, all the lights shining on you made the stage your own pocket of light as the crowd watched but the unlit crowd looked almost invisible, it was magical as the crowd waved all their phone lights at us while we performed, it was like space as all these little flashing lights matching to the rhythm of the song. And then it was over, by that time I was sweating and my band and I walked off the stage as the loudness of the crowd and people talking, faded away as we walked off into the the dark underground corridors of the mirror room.
And below is a mind map of what my group and I feel toward the word of Wonder

Wonder
A feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.
Hope
Magic
Curiosity
Possibilities
Delight
Mystery
Shocked
Believing
Purple
Bread
Surprise
Creativity
Imagination
What if?
Space
Inquiry
The future
Compensation for the unknown
Choices
Passion
Innocence vs Experience
Fascination
Devotion
Why?
Fantasization
Confusion/ lack of understanding
Outcomes
Dreamers
Santa clause/ myth
Adventure
Thoughts
Theory
Alternative