What is the purpose of elephant tooth paste?

Answer 1

It is a chemical experiment using hydrogen peroxide and potassium iodide, mixed with detergent and water.

If you add all these together, the hydrogen peroxide's decomposition is sped up by the catalyst, potassium iodide. Oxygen is given off and forms foam with the detergent. The foam pushes up in the cylinder or test tube and comes out the top looking like toothpaste, hence elephant's toothpaste.

Answer 2

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is always decomposing to release oxygen and water, but it does so slowly. In elephant toothpaste, the hydrogen peroxide is mixed with detergent and food color and then saturated iodide solution is added. The iodide acts as a catalyst so that the H2O2 breaks down really quickly. All the gas bubbles released makes the detergent bubble up suddenly.

Answer 3

Elephants do have teeth. Although zoos may provide dental care for their elephants, the phrase elephant toothpaste often refers to a chemistry experiment that has nothing to do with elephants.

Answer 4

Because the foam looks like an elephant trunk squeezing toothpaste.......

Answer 5

it shows that there is many ways to make it and it tell us that it looks like an elephant trunk.

Answer 6

too look at and admire