Viva And Wegmans Experiment

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Mistakes happen all the time. You can be typing a 20 page lab report for class and knock over a bottle of water onto your laptop. Smoke may start to pour out of the computer and the screen will start to fuzzy. If you run to the cupboard and discover that there are 3 different brands of paper towels which are bounty, viva, and wegmans. Which brand of paper towels absorbs the greatest volume of water? In our team lab we predicted that bounty will be able to absorb the greatest amount of water compared to wegmans and viva. Bounty seemed to be thicker and had better texture than the others. We also predicted that viva would be the absorbent because of its flimsiness and lack of texture.
We fairly simple methods to carry out our experiment. First,

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