Christina Paino

"Careful, It Might Explode" Chemical Reaction Experiment: Gummy vs Potassium Chlorate

A delicious gummy candy becomes nothing more than burned ash, isn't chemistry great? Potassium chlorate is a polyatomic compound--it consists of a cation (the positive portion, the potassium) and the anion (the negative portion, the 'chlorate' or ClO3)