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Water Alcohol And Oil Lab Report

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This experiment needed water, alcohol, and oil. To begin with, obtained a small amount of water into a test tube, then obtained the small amount of oil into the same test, and finally obtained a small amount of oil to the same test tube. Last but not least was to observe the reaction and record the result to the lab notebook. These steps were repeated with the same liquids but different order of liquids were obtained in the test tube.

In order to test the solubility of water, oil, and ethanol, the solvent ability test was conducted. According to the Table 1, water was the only solvent that was able to dissolve every substance. Most of the substances were dissolved completely in water. The next solvent is ethanol; ethanol was able to dissolve …show more content…

The result indicated that a dry table sugar tasted sweeter than a dry sugar that was dissolved into water.

In order to test the difference pH values of different substance, water was compared with orange juice, 1% NaOH, coffee, soda, vinegar, and antacid. Result showed that orange juice had the pH value of 3; 1% NaOH has the pH value of 14; coffee had the pH value of 5; soda and vinegar had the pH value of 2, and antacid had the pH value of 8. The data is shown in the Table 2, and a graph about the data is shown in Figure1.

In order to test the heat capacity of water, calorimeter test was conducted. Each liquid had an initial temperature at 21oC. As the time increased, the temperature increased. The maximum temperature of water was 23.5oC in 152 seconds. And the maximum temperature of oil was 25oC in 160 seconds. And last but not least, the maximum temperature of alcohol was 26.5oC in 163 seconds. The data is shown in the Table 3 and the graph is shown in Figure …show more content…

The result showed that the needle floated above the water surface, but it did not float on the ethanol surface.

In order to test which liquid would be more dense, water, oil, and ethanol were obtained into the same test tube. The result showed that the solution was separated into 3 layers. Water was on the bottom of the test tube, next was oil in the middle, and on top of all was ethanol.

Overall, water has uncommon properties that other liquids do not have. After conducting many experiments, many scientific evidences showed that water has a good solvent ability, high heat capacity, cohesion, adhesion, and high surface tension due to its chemical structure. Hydrogen bonds, polar, dipoles are the characteristics that make up water and allow water to attract and connect with other molecules and substances. These attractions and connections are the fundamental stages that make up the extraordinary properties of water. All these unique properties of water have huge impact in life on Earth. Water has a direct impact on living cells. Living organisms cannot live without the presence of

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