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Thursday, 5 November 2020

Dilution Experiment - Science

Definition for Dilution: Making something less concentrated. There will be less particles in the liquid.

Concentration: How strong something is.

Aim: To make a dilution series to investigate concentration.

Hypothesis: I think the first test tube will have the most dilute liquid because it would have more added to it in the start.

Equipment:

A potassium permanganate crystal

Six large test tubes

Tweezers

A plastic transfer pipette

A test tube rack

10 mL measuring cylinder


Method:

1. Place the six test tubes in a test tube rack. Label the rack with numbers 1-6

2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill test tube 1 with 10 mL of water. Fill the remaining test tubes with 5 mL

of water.

3. Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1

4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.

5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 mL from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.

6 Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.

7. Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5 mL of solution from test

tube 2 to test tube 3.

8. Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tube 4, 5 and 6.


Was my hypothesis right: Yes because overtime the mixture was more watery and watered down. This makes it more dilute, and the first one was the least dilute

How do I know how this happen: This happens by the mixture overtime become more dilute as it was moved more into more water.

Here is a photo of our experiment


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