Final Essay

For the second part of the experiment I cut the cheesecloth into four pieces and folded them so that it was four layers thick. I placed one piece of cheesecloth into the funnel and measured 60mL of soil using the 100mL to help measure the soil and poured that into the funnel. Taking beaker number one I poured the contents into the funnel and let that filter into beaker number five. I used the same technique as above and I repeated the same thing to beakers number two through four and poured them into beakers number six through eight. Once this was done I observed beakers five through eight and wrote down my observations in Table 1.

Along a murky riverbed, long devoid of life; a lone roach scuttles along. It is often said that their kind are the only thing that can survive an apocalypse, apart from the ever changing shell of this rock hurdling through space and time. This creature, as resilient as it is fowl, may ever toil in peace; for it has no sentience or desires, and merely seeks to fulfill the simplest tasks, passed down and hard-coded into it’s DNA. Without want, pride, or a sense of being, it simply locates and consumes sustenance; in an ongoing cycle intermingled with periods of compulsive reproduction. A duty which has been the sole, simple undertaking of every member of it’s species for countless millenia. All around this creature, the land expands outward

In the article, they came up with the idea of gelling agents which is a chemical used to solidify any kind of spilled oil, making it easier to collect. Using the motion of the waves and sea, the gelling agent turns the oil into a rubbery material that can be easily removed from the water with nets, vacuuming, suction, devices or skimmers. This method helps clean the water without taking a lot of the water with it since when it solidifies you just pull out the chunks of oil instead of taking a lot water with it like if you were to try the hay or fleece

In terms of bonding, the oil was dissolved into the cup and the blackened because it had an attraction and bond which was a London dispersion force in the intermolecular forces.

Oils are made of very fine, small atoms that can easily slip past each other

A water treatment plant built by Atlantic Richfield Co. was completed in 2004. Current plans are for the plant to begin purifying the water in 2019, just a few years before water rises to the critical level. However, the facility presently uses a water treatment method that will contain the metals in the Berkeley Pit, not remove them. When the plant comes online, it will use a process of adding lime (basic material composed of calcium oxide) to the water to increase its pH to be less acidic. As the pH rises, metals will lose solubility and begin to separate from the water. Polymers will be added to the mix to bond to the metallic sludge and will be separated from the water (PitWatch, 2013). The remaining purified water will be released into the Silver Bow Creek while the sludge byproduct will be released back into the lake. In order to prevent the water level from reaching critical, Horseshoe Bend Water Treatment Plant must treat over seven million gallons of water a day, of which 500,000 gallons will be returned to the lake (Christensen, 2014). Additionally, the artificial mixing from the treatment plant creates substances such as schwertmannite and jarosite (which store heavy metals in the lake bed). If the minerals oxidize from the acidity of the pit, their stored chemicals will

Just as we were beginning to think they may retreat after two failed attempts to siege our city, the Turks delivered a third and final strike, composed widely of Janissaries of whom were thoroughly trained in the expertise of battle. Despite a swift attempt by our soldiers to again tip the ladders that allowed the Turks to scale the city walls, many enemy forces made headway over the top and eagerly slaughtered their way into the city. While in the last two attempts we had successfully fended off the invasion, the pursuit of their trained Janissaries quickly proved superior as they battled their way through our defenses. Perhaps all hope would not have been lost if one fatal event had not occurred: one of the main entry gates into the city

Soap and detergent are both meant to clean items. Detergent is meant for bigger and heavier things, such as clothes, and soap is meant for smaller things not as heavy, like hands (Bellis, 2016). A dedicated coin cleaner wanted to help others on their coin hobby, and he prefers to wash it with water and then put some type of liquid on it. These materials are similar to the water and soap solution (Bugeja, 2016). A person did an experiment similar to this one. Some of the liquids they used were different, including the vinegar, coke, and apple juice, but two of them were the same, which were the water and orange juice. In the few materials that were the same, orange

Titration was performed over two weeks to determine the amount of acetic acid in vinegar. On the first week, the purpose of the experiment is to standardize a 0.500 M of NaOH solution to be used in week two. Since the stock solution was in 5.0 M NaOH, dilution of the solution was performed to make 0.500 M NaOH solution. On the first week, 40 mL stock solution was diluted with 360 mL of water to attain a 400 mL .500M NaOH. This method is considered imprecise because the concentration of stock solution is only precise to 2 significant figures.

(Shake cylinders every 5 minutes) Observe the color of the solutions Compare the intensity of the blue color of each solution to distilled water and the blue glass cleaner Evaluate the color intensity Record results Results: * We ordered the solutions from the darkest to the lightest color of the distilled blue

When the plaque drops intot he water it dissolves and causes a brown tint in the water. If the tinted water comes from one faucet, it's time to call in a plumber

With polymer all you have to do is package it, then set the package in the water. When you put the package of polymer in the water what it does is really spectacular; it adsorbs, only attaching to the outside, the oil and that makes it a whole lot easier to pick it up (Oil spill Clean-up experiment). Another experiment is a girl puts water in a aluminum container, then put in oil. She first used the sponge, then cornmeal, then the cotton ball (Oil spill project).

This liquid was a darker color with a lighter color in it. There were two types of liquid in it and we could tell because they were separated in the test tube. We wanted to see these different liquids and also see which one had the lower and higher boiling point. For this, we used distillation again. The set up for this lab was almost the same but we used the liquid instead of sticks and only had the test tube in the water.

Groundwater contamination may not seem important to our society, but one may not realize that ground water is the basis for our livelihood. The health of our natural environment which is relying on this groundwater. When water quality is corrupted with contaminates and deluded that is very bad. It can be very costly to correct and could be harmful for living beings that are in contact with that type of water.

When oil is skimmed from the surface water, much of the recovered material is water. Thus, the storage container fill-up with more water than the actual oil. For example, a weir skimmer generally recovers 70% water and 30% oil.1 To help make storage space available for actual oil, the recovered water may be decanted back into the surface water where it was collected.