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Biology Lab Essay

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Lab Report: Scientific Method

Your Name: Alyssa Melincoff

Purpose of this Lab
What is the goal of this lab? What question is it trying to answer, or what problem is it trying to explain?
To find out how table salt affects the boiling temperature of water.

Hypothesis
After reading the lab instructions - but before starting the lab - record your best “educated guess” about what will happen in the experiment. What hypothesis can you generate about the effect of adding salt to water?
Adding table salt to boiling water will cause the water to boil at a higher temperature

Experimental Design
List the materials used in this lab, and the procedure you followed.

Materials:
1.Kitchen Stove
2. 2 cup measuring cup
3. sharpie …show more content…

Use the digital thermometer. Record the temperature when the pot reaches a rolling boil.

Data
Record the data you collected in the lab. (The data table and the graph.)

Table 2. Boiling point temperatures of various salt solutions.
Beaker/Concentration of NaCl (M)
Boiling Point Temperature
(°C)

Analysis
Analyze the data you collected in the lab. How does the data presented above relate to the hypotheses you generated earlier in lab? Are any hypotheses disproved by your experiment? Use your graph to determine the boiling point of a solution made with 2 ½ tablespoons. This use of a graph has generated a hypothesis that a 2 ½ tablespoon solution boils at __219__degrees F. Prepare a 2.5 M solution and verify your hypothesis.Correct!

•Is the hypothesis correct? Yes. Adding table salt to water causes the water to boil at a higher temperature.
•Problems with doing the experiments. The temperature readings were hard to make. Gloves had to be worn to keep my hands from getting too hot. Had to be careful that the stove heat was not hitting the thermometer.
•Other things learned. Be careful when adding salt to boiling water. It makes the water boil vigorously for a second or two.

Conclusion After conducting the experiment, how would you now explain the problem(s) or answer the question(s) raised when you described the purpose of the lab? Be sure to base your answer on the data you collected. If you are given a

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