Welcome to the wonderful world of chemistry. Today with the help of the Chemistry of Plant said by Mail Chemistry, we will study the properties of chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their lively green color. Perform this experiment on a plastic tray to contain any possible spills. Don't forget to put on protective gloves and goggles before doing the experiment. To open a bottle containing a region, push the cap down and turn it. Peers the bottle nozzle with an unbent paper clip. For the chlorophyll experiment, you will need solutions of citric acid and copper sulfate, two plastic vials with caps, a pipette, and a wooden stick. You will also need the beaker and a disposable cup from your starter kit. Prepare some 96% alcohol, some green leaves, and hot water in advance. Tear up some green leaves and put them in your disposable cup. Pour some alcohol over the leaf fragments, enough to cover them completely. Stir the mixture with the wooden stick. Pour some hot water into the beaker. Then put the cup containing the mixture into the beaker. Wait five minutes. While you're waiting, the chlorophyll in the leaves will dissolve in the alcohol. Remove the cup from the beaker. Using a pipette, measure 2.5 milliliters of the obtained solution into the vials. Cap the vial without the blue sticker. Add 15 drops of the citric acid solution to the vial with the blue circle. Then cap the vial. Shake the vial. The solution will turn yellowish because the magnesium ions in chlorophyll drop out of the chlorophyll molecules when exposed to acid. The resulting product is called Faea-Fatine and has a yellowish color. Now open the vial with the blue sticker and add 10 drops of copper sulfate. Close the vial again and shake it. Copper ions readily occupy the free space in the chlorophyll molecules left by the magnesium ions. And the product of this reaction is Ophiophatine Copper Complex, which resembles chlorophyll in color. Learn more about this experiment on our MelScience website.