Jack+R14

Jack R 2013-2014
 * THE STUDY OF DISSOLVING SKITTLES **


 * ABSTRACT **

The purpose for these experiments was to see which methods work the best for dissolving Skittles. A h ydrophilic substance is a substance that can dissolve in water but a hydrophobic substance is a substance that cannot dissolve in water. For the first experiment the Skittles were weighed before and after they were put in different liquids to see how much weight they lost when they were in the liquid for one minute. The water was the liquid that best dissolves the Skittles, which is a surprise because there have been experiments like this before and the results were a lot different. The reason why the water was more effective is because it is not an acid, it doesn’t have sugar and it doesn't have carbonation.


 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

Some good future experiments are to see if the color of the skittles dissolve when there is more than one color of skittles in the beaker. Another good experiment is to try and dissolve the skittles in the sun. An improvement to this experiment is to keep the skittles in separate bag according to their color. One more improvement would be to use the same beaker every time I tried to dissolve the skittles.

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