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Can sugar help lower the freezing point of water? Each year 17 million tons of salt is applied by state agencies to US roads across the nation helping people navigate otherwise treacherous roads. With the good also comes the bad which is the corrosion or oxidation caused by the natural attraction of water to salt. Salt makes water act as a catalyst by speeding up corrosion on millions of vehicles around the world. Can it be possible to use a less corrosive additive such as sugar to lower the freezing

higher concentration of the solute. There are also different types of solutions that can be formed during the process of osmosis. An isotonic solution is created when the concentration of solutes inside the cell is equal to the concentration outside of the cell and water will move in and out. A hypotonic solution is created when the concentration

to create four solutions of the same components and different concentration. I found the concentration in Molarity (mol/liter). I would dilute a solution to create new solutions, using the formula M1xV1=M2xV2 where M=molarity and V=volume. In this lab, there were four solutions, Solution A, Solution B, Solution C, and Solution D. The solute or substance that dissolves was sugar and the solvent or substance that the solute dissolves in was water. For Solution A, I weighed 3.42 g sugar and diluted to

through the insides of a potato. I will be using three water solutions, one with salt and one with sugar, and plain water as a control group. Two of the solutions will have 250 milliliters of water with molarities of one for the two salt and sugar solutions. There will be two other solutions that will have 250 milliliters of water and have molarities of two for both salt and sugar solutions, so overall, there will be five solutions. I think that this is an interesting topic because I think that

Did the egg permeate the corn syrup (hypertonic solution) or the water (hypotonic solution)? First, using the triple beam balance we measured the mass of our egg which was 65 grams. Then, we put the egg in a 200ml of vinegar to completely take the outer shell off. The next day, after rinsing the egg, using a beaker we poured 200 ml of corn syrup into the beaker. Then put our egg into the beaker and let it sit for 24 hours. After the 24 hours, the egg has shriveled and has gone down to 48 grams. On

through that can move through. In this case our solute is sugar, and sugar cannot fit through the pores in the membrane. When there is more sugar the difference in concentration is greater. That difference makes all the molecules want to move faster. That results in osmotic pressure being built. The sugar tries to get through the membrane, but the pores don’t accommodate it. That means that the water can only go through less pores because more sugar is blocking the pores. The water that goes through the

light passing through a liquid bends or refracts. The refractometer is a tool. It is used to help you select higher quality of foods containing more vitamins and minerals. They are also used to determine the concentration of dissolved solids in a solution. Cooking oil, molasses, syrup, and other thick liquids require a refractometerqcalibrated to read 30-90 Brix. Refractometer also is used in wine making. (Harrill, 1998) refractometer is also used to test to quality of fruits and vegetables. A hydrometer

water and sugar solutions. I will try to keep the potatoes surface area and volume the same. I will make sure that both pieces of potato are placed in their solutions at the same time and pulled out together. I will make the weight of the potatoes the same by

the freezing point of solution, different solutes are dissolved in solvents. When a solute is combined with a solvent, such as dissolving sugar (solute) into water (solvent), a solution is formed. The process of decreasing a freezing point of a liquid by dissolving a solute in a solution is referred to as freezing point depression. The freezing point is a colligative property, which means that the freezing point depends on the number of solute particles dissolved in a solution. For example, CaCl2

Materials & Methods In the osmotic lab seven cups , a marker, metric ruler, digital balance, paper towels, a knife and seven cups containing solutions 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6m of sucrose were used in the experiment. The marker was used to label the seven cups with the seven different concentrations of sucrose . A cork borer was used to cork the potato and then the metric ruler was used