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Lab Report For Energy Experiment

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Aim - To find how much energy is released by setting the food alight from a Bunsen burner and putting the ignited food under a test tube with 20mL of water in the test tube.

Hypothesis - My hypotheses is that the chip, which has the most flavouring on it will increase the temperature of the water inside the test tube, when the chip is ignited and held under the test tube. Materials -
2x Heat proof mats.
1 Bunsen burner.
1x Retord stand & clamp.
1x Measurement cylinder.
1x Test tube.
1x Thermometer.
1x Dorito chip.
1x Burger ring.
1x Peanut.
1x Samboy chip.
1x Clasp.
1x Lighting match.

Risk Assessment -
If someone gets burnt by a Bunsen burner quickly place the burnt area under cold water and then notify a teacher for further first-aid treatment.
If someone starts to feel sick/ill during the …show more content…

Observation/Results -
1 Which food was hard to light on fire? - The peanut was the hardest to catch alight, due to how small the peanuts were and they kept falling off the needle and took awhile to catch alight.
Discussion -
What variables are controlled in this experiment?. - The variables that are controlled are the amount of water measured in the test tube, the Bunsen burner, the clamp and the retort stand.
During the experiment, which piece of food released the most energy and why we think so?.- The samboy chip released the most energy overall and the highest temperature in the water. We believe that the more mass the food has the hotter it will get creating heat energy and also releasing the potential energy which was held in the chip.

3. Was our original hypothesis similar to the results? - No, our original hypothesis was that the that has the most flavouring on it would increase the temperature of the water inside the test tube. The results ended in that the chip with the greatest mass released the most energy and got the hottest in temperature.

Conclusion

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