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Imagine yourself making a nice cup of tea on a cold winter day. You begin by boiling some water in a kettle. Next, you add the steaming liquid to your cup. Then, you open a tea bag and repeatedly dunk it into the water. You pour a dash of milk and drop a few sugar cubes into the cup, stirring the solution with a spoon. Finally, you squeeze a bit of lemon into your tea mixture. However, before you have time to stir the lemon juice into your tea, the liquid forms clumps. In other words, your tea has curdled!

Based on the scenario, answer the questions below.

1. Which of the four indicators of a chemical change is described in the paragraph above?
2. What makes the tea with milk and lemon curdle?
3. Name some of the chemical substances in the tea mixture. (You will need to conduct some research on your own to do this.)
4. Which chemicals could have reacted to cause the curdling?

Answer 1

1- change of state (boiling)
2-increase in acidity
3-methylxanthines (caffeine) theobromine and theophylline
4- lemon juice

Answer 2

• Formation of a precipitate
• Reaction between the milk and the lemon juice.

A chemical change occurred in the system. This chemical change is shown by the curdling of the milk. This shows that a precipitate was formed.

The tea and milk curdles because of a reaction between the acidic lemon juice and milk which affects the nature of the proteins in milk thereby leading to the observed curdling.

Some of the chemical substances in mixture include, caffeine, lactose, proteins and citric acid.

The curdling is a chemical reaction caused reaction of anionic proteins in milk such as casein to react with acid  and become denatured.

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