Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Sugar, by Emily

We split up into groups and did experiments. The topic that was covered in my group was about the solubility of sugar with liquids ( H2O, coca-cola, milk, and vinegar). The independent variable is type of liquid, and the dependent variable is time. We would heat up the liquid to 100 degrees celsius then put 3 tsp of sugar in, then see how long it would take for them to dissolve, we did this three different times. What I knew before we started was that it takes sugar water only a few minutes to dissolve in water so I thought that water would be the one to dissolve the fastest. After we got done I found out that vinegar made sugar dissolve the fastest at 15.85 seconds H2O took 20.55 seconds it was 3rd fastest.     
            Some interesting things that happened in our experience was, when we put sugar in the coca-cola it would make a lot of carbonation (almost overflowing the glass). The most dramatic change was the soda it went from 31.84 - 16.18 seconds. The one that stayed the most constant was vinegar it went from 18.18 - 12.68 seconds. It was really interesting to me how the milk didn’t seem any different, but even for a little the soda, vinegar, and water changed a little.  

            My question for this is did the sugar dissolve faster in the last try because maybe the liquid was warmer? The topic is important because  it shows you that something can be changed no matter what. Even if you are adding something that dissolves, interest still changed it and you can not change it back to what the interest way before you added stuff in the liquid. 

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