MS TAVARES SCIENCE 6 Slot A NAME- Jack Waits DATE- February 26, 2013 LAB PARTNERS- Camden Galvin Scott

SCIENCE 6 LAB WRITE-UP FORMAT SHEET

TITLE: Sugar and Hard Sugar PURPOSE: To observe physical and chemical changes with heat. PREDICTION: When heated the sugar will turn a harder substance and lose mass. HYPOTHESIS: If the sugar is heated, then it will lose mass, because we are heating it very fast and its gasses are being released. MATERIALS: 1cm3 sugar cube, forceps, ring stand, ring clamp, heating bowl, Wire gauze, matches, Propane burner, and water. PROCEDURE: Have lab plate in right handed setup, with a heating bowl on top of wire gauze that is resting on a ring clamp that is attached to the ring stand. Quickly, take a sugar cube, measure volume and record weight, and put it in melting bowl so it doesnt oxidize. Right after that, have someone light a match, another person turn on the propane burner. Light the propane burner and put the match in the water. Watch and record color and estimate if it is expanding or contracting. Measure final weight. Find final density, and compare to caramel. DATA/RESULTS: On our first trial, the cube started at 2.34 g and ended up approximately 0.03g (Figure A). However, on our second try, we got drastically different results: the cube went from 2.20g to 0.9g (Figure A). During the experiment, the sugar cube started to shake and gas started to come from the bottom of the cube. Within a few seconds, the smell of the gas started to get worse. Then, the bottom of the sugar cube turned into a black bubbling substance. More of the sugar became the black substance, and it rose to about halfway up the cube before the cube started to become a yellowish green.

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DISCUSSION: For this project, we did the Sugar Cube Experiment. The sugar cube experiment basically involved putting the sugar cube over a flame and seeing what the changes happened to the sugar cube in its We predicted that the Sugar Cube would lose mass, and harden. In our experiment, the sugar cubes lost a lot of weight, more than a gram on the first trial and more than 2g. In addition, our sugar cube gradually changed shape and color. It started white and in a cube, and then it bubbled, turned green, started to ooze and turn black. When we turned off the flame and waited, the sugar cube had hardened. Then its weight greatly decreased when we measured the sugar cube again. This supports our thesis because it shows that it lost mass- 1 to 2 grams, and it hardened in the end.

CONCLUSION: Our thesis was excepted, as the cube did harden and lose mass. Our experiment was a lot different on the second trial, as the cube lost a lot more mass the first time, which is probably because of the different heats we heated the cube at.