Tusker Gel

Question: Which one (sugar or salt) will change solid gel into liquid gel?

Hypothesis: We predict salt will change the solid gel into a liquid gel because the salt will have an effect on the h2o in water, which is the base of gel.

Our Experiment

Materials: 

<List your materials >

• Material 1:  water
• Material 2:  carbopol
• Material 3: granulated sugar
• Material 4: baking soda
  
• Material 5:  salt
• Material 6:  Red dye
  

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Safety Procedures

<Explain in detail any precautions>
Material 1:We should only be handling the carbopol with gloves.

Procedure:

1. Step 1:  Add 1 tablespoon of the chemical carbopol (a white powder) to water, then thoroughly stir to create a gel
2. Step 2:  Add 1 drop of red dye
   
3. Step 3:   Add 2 drops of baking soda to the gel and stir 
   
4. Step 4:   Add salt to the mixture and stir
   
5. Step 5:   Repeat step 2 with granulated white sugar            


6.      Which one is it!!
   

Special Needs:
We need to be by a water source

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The Science behind it

The chemicals in the carbopol thicken the water with its pH and connect it to make a chain with the hydrogen and oxygen in water. The chain creates density. The baking soda goes into that just to neutralize the pH. The salt goes into that chain to break the chain making the density level drop from a lot to nothing, creating a liquid. The sugar has no affect because of the ingredients in it (sugar grain, carbohydrates, etc.).  

Later on you can Add Graphs with results

Conclusions: In conclusion, our hypothesis was mostly correct. The salt changed the gel from a solid into a liquid, not the sugar. The molecules in salt had the effect with the h2o not necessarily the grain of salt itself.

About Bennett

I am Bennett, a fifth grade student in Mrs. Camarra's class. I have a younger brother and sister, two parents, and a dog named Bandit. I love sports, especially soccer, basketball and baseball. I also enjoy watching movies, playing man hunt and eating chocolate ice cream! My dream is to make it to the NBA!!

About Daniel

I am Daniel, a fifth grader in Mrs. King's class. I have three younger siblings,  two brothers one sister and two parents. I have a cat OJO and a dog Molly. My two favorite sports are soccer and basketball. On my free time I like to hang out with friends, play outside, always looking to play soccer. My dream is to be a pro soccer player in Europe.

about both of us

We both enjoy playing sports including soccer and basketball. We met at 9 months old at My Gym.