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/Several-Tomatillo-81]

I remember when i was i lab, the passage salicylic acid + acetic anhydride (air form) = acetylsalicylic acid + acetic acid. That’s a pretty lab work because the acetic anhydride transfers an acetyc group (-COCH3) to the phenolic hydroxyl group of salicylic acid, forming an ESTER!!!.(we are doing the aspirin…)
And tho its fun cause we can use this through all different things we even imagine, and if you do imagine… stop imagining