You supply your body with
oxygen by inhaling fresh air. Your body cells need oxygen
from the air to "burn" sugar, fat and other nutrients. After this chemical
reaction you will exhale consumed air.
By the following experiment
you will learn the difference between fresh air and consumed air.
Experiment:
* Left: Pour 20 ml
of lime water into two 50-ml
infusion bottles.
* Close the right bottle
by stopper pierced by two tubings: The longer one dips into lime water,
the shorter one is for inhaling of air.
* Inhale by sucking
one long breath of fresh air through the short green tubing.
* After that exhale
this air through a drinking straw into the lime water of the left
bottle.
Observation:
* Right: The exhaled
air makes lime water (left bottle) milky while inhaled does not change
it (right bottle).
Explanation:
Lime water is an indicator to test for carbon
dioxide.