Hello everyone, today I’ll be showing you an experiment we did yesterday. If you want to do it yourself then this is what you’ll need: a mortar & pestle, filter paper, iso-propyl-alcohol, scissors, 3 nice green leaves, a UV light, a funnel, a test tube, and a fume chamber/a dark place.
First we grabbed the leaves and used the scissors to cut them into small pieces, once you have cut the leaves, then you could start with the hard part now you have to get the cut up leaves, put them into the mortar and then add some of the iso-propyl-alcohol, then grind it up with the pestle for about 10 – 12 minutes until you get a dark green pulp. After you get the colour in the picture, now you get your filter paper and fold it in half two times. Put your folded filter paper in the funnel, then filter out the pulp into the test tube. After you have filtered it all into the test tube go to a dark place/fume chamber and shine the UV light on the test tube and watch the chlorophyll glow a green/purple light and make energy.
This helped me to realise that Chlorophyll doesn’t need the plant or natural sun light to produce energy. It did this by glowing under the UV light.
I loved making this with my partner Luke, it was tons of fun and I totally recommend it. So what are you waiting for try it yourself and see if you get the same results, or maybe even better.
Charlie Dorssers