How to Make Calcium Chloride
- 1). Place the limestone in the beaker. Use enough limestone the fill the beaker about 1/4 full. Put on the gloves.
- 2). Add a 1/4 of a beaker of hydrochloric acid to the limestone.
- 3). The hydrochloric acid will start to bubble as it dissolves the limestone. Gently swirl the beaker to mix the contents and make sure the reaction goes to completion. If all of the limestone dissolves, add a little bit more.
- 4). Once the solution stops bubbling, filter off the solids by pouring the solution through the filter paper into the second beaker. The calcium chloride is dissolved in the filtered solution.
- 5). Use the hot plate to gently heat the second beaker containing the calcium chloride solution. The solid left after the water evaporates is solid calcium chloride.
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