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(No Name) 3-6-14

610 Science
Density of Liquids
Goal:
The goal/purpose of this experiment was to see which of the 5 liquids (corn syrup,
shampoo, rubbing alcohol, water, & cooking oil) will be the densest and which will be the least
dense while forming columns in between each liquid perfectly.
Prediction/Hypothesis:
The prediction is that corn syrup will be the densest, then shampoo, water, cooking oil, and
the least dense will be the rubbing alcohol. The corn syrup will be the densest because it looks
sticky and thick, but not as much as the other liquids. Water is less dense than cooking oil which
is less dense than rubbing alcohol because of the observation of the mini-trials.
Materials:
1) Brown, green, red, blue, & yellow food coloring
2) 90 mL each of corn syrup, shampoo, rubbing alcohol, water, & cooking oil in each
beaker (two beakers will have the same liquid, but one of them will have 40mL and
one of them will have 50mL)
3) 11 beakers
4) 5 poppets
5) 1 Mini Graduated Cylinder (25mL)
6) 1 Mass Scale
7) 1 Graduated Cylinder (100mL)
8) Paper towels
Procedure:
1) Get out your materials
2) Make sure that the corn syrup is brown, the shampoo, is green, the rubbing alcohol is
red, the water is blue, and the cooking oil is yellow. Add food coloring on the liquids
that dont have these colors.
3) Pour 40mL of each colored liquid in 5 different beakers that hold 50mL each. This
will be used for the mini-trials and for the density column. Put 50mL of each colored
liquid in another beaker. This will be used for measuring the mass of the liquids.
4) Choose 3 sets of 2 liquids to test in the mini graduated cylinder for your mini-trials.
Place paper towels under the mini graduated cylinders in case a spill occurs. Pour 1 of
the 2 liquids from one of the sets you chose, up to 5mL of the cylinder. Pour the liquid
very slowly! Then, pour the second liquid of the set very slowly. Use the poppets to
fill the mini graduated cylinder up to 5mL if its not exactly 5mL. If they form two
columns without mixing, this shows that the first liquid of the set is denser than the
second liquid of the set. If they do mix or if the second liquid of choice goes below the
first liquid, the second liquid is denser than the first liquid. Repeat this for all 3 sets of
your chosen liquids and record which liquid is denser than which other liquid. In
between testing these sets, wash out the min graduated cylinder so that the leftover
liquid drops from the previous mini-trial dont affect your next one.
5) After your three mini-trials, predict the order of the liquids when theyre placed in the
density column.
6) Fill the large graduated cylinder (100mL) with 20mL of each liquid in the order of the
prediction. If the layers are visible without mixing, the prediction is correct. If one of
the layers mixes, it tells how those two liquids were supposed to be switched to get the
clear density column. Record the data then clean up.
7) Weigh the empty beakers mass on the mass scale. Get out the 5 beakers that had
50mL of each liquid and weigh their masses. Make a chart with 5 columns and 6 rows.
The first row should be labeled as Liquid for the first box, Mass (with the beaker)
for the second box, Net Mass (without the beaker) for the third box, Volume (mL)
for the fourth box, and Density (g/mL) for the last box of the row. Record the data
from the weighing station in the right columns.
8) To find the density (labeled in the last column of the table) of each liquid, use the
formula NM/V (net mass divided by volume). Use your calculator to do this part.
Round your answers to the nearest hundredths (0.01, 0.02, 0.99, 0.98, etc.)!
Data/Diagrams:
Liquid Mass (with
the beaker)
Net Mass (without
the beaker)
Volume (mL) Density (g/mL)
Corn syrup 77.3g 67.3g 50mL 1.35g/mL
Shampoo 61.2g 51.2g 50mL 1.02g/mL
Water 56.9g 46.9g 50mL 0.94g/mL
Rubbing Alcohol 48.5g 38.5g 50mL 0.77g/mL
Cooking Oil 52.9g 42.9g 50mL 0,86g/mL





Rubbing Alcohol

Cooking Oil

Water

Shampoo

Corn Syrup

Density
Column
Results

Conclusion:
From the data, corn syrup is the densest, then shampoo, water, cooking oil, and then
rubbing alcohol is the least dense of these liquids. This was proven from the predictions of the
mini-trials, the density column, and finding the density of the liquids from the mass scale. The
densities of the mini-trials helped predict all the densities. This made the prediction of the
density column and the density column more accurate. The mass scale helped prove that the
order of these densities from the experiment was correctly placed.
A limitation that couldve affected this experiment was not pouring the liquids slow
enough. This caused more mixing to occur, which affected the data. The other limitation was
not filling the cylinder to the right amount of liquid. If this did happen, there would be two
independent variables (the different masses and amount of liquid), which would mean that one
liquid (that isnt supposed to be denser than the other) would be denser than the other, which
ruins the density column. Measuring the mass also couldve been wrong, which affects the
calculations. Or, the net mass was not found, which leads you to find the incorrect densities for
the liquids. Additionally, one poppet mightve gone into the wrong beaker, which mixes two
liquids that are totally different, affecting the liquids density when placed in the density column.
This is related to the real-world. The atmosphere has air. The densities are not the same
all over the atmosphere. This experiment proved that denser things will be under the things that
are less dense than it. Because the troposphere is below the stratosphere, mesosphere,
thermosphere, and exosphere, it shows that its the densest layer of air in the atmosphere. The
exosphere is above all these layers, so its the least dense layer of air in the atmosphere.

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