Chemical reaction

Abstract: Amylase in the body is used to break down polysaccharides into monosaccharides. The monosaccharides are simple sugars that are used to give the body energy. This effect was investigated in an experiment designed to show the breaking down of starch solution. A water bath was used to heat water up to 60oc. Pieces of dialysis tubing were wet and had starch solution put inside. Half of the measuring cylinders were filled with 60oc water, and the other half with 25oc water. Tests of the…

Recent studies have shown that direct physical contact of the human body with the surface of the earth (grounding or earthing) produces profound quantifiable physiological effects. A reasonable hypothesis to explain the benefits is that a direct connection to the earth and the human body allows the abundance of free electrons to flow from the ground to the body. It is proposed that because there is sufficient evidence to suggest that earthing has positive effects on physical health, the influx…

The objective for this lab is to construct a solubility curve for potassium nitrate in water by measuring saturation temperatures for six different solution concentrations. We form a group of four and were assigned to work on series one while the other group work on series two. Throughout the lab, we set a hot bath water temperature at 85 degree celsius which affected how potassium nitrate dissolves in water and changed the saturation temperature. In addition, our group discovered that the mass…

The rate of reaction in an enzyme catalysed reaction is also affected by the presence of inhibitors. In this experiment, the effect of temperature on reaction rate of enzyme will be studied. Peroxidase will be used as test enzyme and the variable to be studied is temperature (°C). At first, the experiment will be carried out at room temperature of 20°C. The temperature of the experimental setup will then be increased by keeping the reactants in a water bath at a temperature of 50°C. The enzyme…

David Jacobs 9F Mrs Pienaar Supercooling Water Introduction Supercooling is relevant as it can help us increase the amount of time we can keep an organ outside a body before it is transplanted, Investigative Question How long do different types of water take to freeze. Hypothesis Tap water will start to freeze as the water reaches just below zero degrees Celsius. Distilled water will last for…

elements within the compound. Procedure: In order to conduct this lab, 25.1mL of distilled water then 25.5mL of 3M HCl must be added 2.11g of copper oxide. This solution must be stirred until it’s dissolved then continuing for stirring until the reaction is complete and the solution is colorless. Once, colorless, add 3.0220g of zinc metal. Next, filter the solution using a Büchner funnel setup and filter paper. Finally, after drying the filter paper and copper overnight, weigh and record the…

Analysis Experiment #1 (Solid) a). My hypothesis was incorrect because I thought the fire going around the brass ball would make it smaller and when the ball through the hoop it would fit easily. I was wrong because the heat made the particles expand which lead to making the brass ball bigger. My second hypothesis was correct; I had thought the water would make the ball smaller and therefore fit through the hoop easier. The water cooled down the ball making the particles contract. When we…

Kinetic and potential energy play an essential role in the segments or phases in a heating or cooling graph representing an exothermic or endothermic process. Kinetic energy is the energy of a system that is in motion of the particles in the system. Potential energy is the energy of a system in which it represents the arrangement of the particles of the system. Kinetic energy and potential energy never increase or decrease at the same time, however, when one energy is changing the other remains…

amalgamating a ‘slurry’ – provided by the instructor. Resin or cellulose is used to create a sound support unit in order maintain a constant positive or negative charge respectively, this will allow separation to occur when equilibrium is shifted during the reaction. The column will have a support unit – composed of either cellulose or resin, inserted with varying concentrations of buffer…

the ground and this then gives us more accurate data for us to compare with the theoretical time. To record the closest accurate time and distance we could get, the equipment we chose to use, were two stopwatches so that we could compare the human reaction times and a tape measure to correctly measure the distance that the ball is going to fall from; which counted down every 25cm. And the methods we used was keeping one variable the same, so the happy sack and changing another so the height,…