Grace+S13

Grace S. 2012-2013
 * SKITTLES LOSING THEIR COLOR IN WATER **

The purpose of this study was to test how long it took for the outer color layer of a skittle to dissolve in different types of water and different kinds of water. A man named Brian Egenriether created the skittle color sorter that helps people get whatever color they want without having to pick through a bag of skittles. In this experiment different color of skittles were placed in water or other types of liquid until the outer layer of color dissolved. The data that was collected showed, that the warmer the water the less time it took for the outer color layer of a skittle to dissolve. The results were that way because warm water tends to heat up sugar and make it disappear; the outer color layer of a skittle is mostly made up of a skittle. An improvement to an experiment that was done could be to put skittles in 10mL instead of 20 mL. That would make the experiment more interesting because the height of the water would be different than all of the others. A follow up experiments that could be done is every color skittle could be placed in a freezer overnight and that could test how long it took for different colored skittles to be chewed. Another follow up experiment could be is you wanted to soak sikittles in acidic liquids to see if that effects how ling it took for the outer color layer to dissolve.
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 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **


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