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Lia Lathan 2013-2014
 * THE STUDY OF HOW EFFECTIVELY DISH CLEANING PRODUCTS CLEAN GERMS **

The purpose of this experiment was to find out how effective different dish soaps were when cleaning dishes. Soap is a cleaning product made with natural oils or fats with sodium hydroxide or another strong alkali (basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal) and often has added colors and perfume. To conduct this experiment, 4 different kinds of dish soap were used to clean glo germ off a plate and placed under a black in to see how many germs were left. It was determined that dawn dish soap left the least germs after wiping the plate while Dawn Platinum had the most left. Natural dish soaps often have less bad chemicals and added colors; though the natural ingredients they contain often do not clean as well as dish soaps with more chemicals.
 * ABSTRACT **

**EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS**
**An improvement for this experiment would be to to not use a really reflective plate. This would improve the experiment because when the black light shines over the plate it would only collects the light from the glo germ not the reflection of the plate. To expand on this experiment it would be interesting to determine how dish soap works on different surfaces.**

To read the complete ISP Paper for this experiment, click on the PDF file link below.