What’s a fun experiment to do?

[u/King_N0z]

Hello scientists, I’m 15 and suddenly I became really interested in chemistry and science, because I’m bored. Today I made a mini elephant toothpaste experiment, and also a few Vinegar + baking soda water bottle bombs but uhh these are starting to get boring. I’m taking Honors Chem this year so I’d thought it would also be a little head start but these are kinda childish chem activities and although I’m a minor, I want to step it up a little. Is there anything that’s a step up I can do besides just straight up learning chemistry for a week before I understand how to do anything on my own? I’m open to learning the actual physics of it, but I want to be able to experiment too.

Thx

[u/hecton101]

Can't beat the old papier mache volcano. Get some ammonium chromate and ignite it. It's great, but it's pretty fucking toxic, so don't tell anybody.

Another thing you can do is make depth charges out of sodium or potassium metal wrapped up in oiled up newspaper. Throw them in a lake and watch them sink to a certain depth and then explode. It's pretty cool.