Taking+Responsible+Risks

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Taking risks can have both a up side and a down side. But to take smart risks and responsible risks only leads to a beneficial outcome. In the bonding chemistry class session, our class was working on a project that involves dangerous corrosive chemical. Mrs. Knowles took all of us into the store room and wanted to show us a chemical reaction between a strongly reactive ionic bond.

Well, in this habits of mind it is really not us that took the risk but rather Mrs. Knowles did the reaction; however she shocked all of us when she dropped the metallic element into the solution when it caused a huge spark and a flare. Was it a good experience? Definitely. At the same time with the excitement, we also get to witness the power of strongly reactive elements put together.

Later that day, we had an experiment that required us to burn magnesium under fire, it produced an reaction that was similar to what Mrs. Knowles showed us but on a much smaller scale. I think the risk here could potentially be the bunsen burner and the flaring magnesium piece. The first trial I told my partner Rob to turn on the burner, but after seeing him do it with such ease I realized that maybe it was a risk worth taking. To own it to you, that day was the first time that i turned on the bunsen burner with my bare hands, in the past I was too nervous to operate it myself. But the end result was satisfying since I observed a special reaction that allowed me to learn the type of bonding that happens. The risk was just a minor step, but what I experienced and learned after taking the risk is what makes the risk worthwhile