Introduction

This project is about the boiling of water and the compounds sugar, and salt. Sugar

and salt will be added to water to see if those two compounds can change the time it

takes for the water to come to a boil.

The purpose of the experiment was to see if you can speed up the time it takes for

water to get heated up and boiling. It could show to help people minimize cooking times

and more. Throughout this project God was an influence on many things, and I hope

people come to know our Lord even better through the huge world of Science.
Hypothesis

I am assuming that adding sugar or salt to water will not change the rate of how fast the

water would come to a boil. Since water takes so long to come to a boil anyway I don't

see how that would be possible to speed up that process.

Materials

stopwatch ( to tell how long water takes to come to a boil )

stove-eye (to put the pot on )

a pot ( for the water to go in on the stove )

water

salt

sugar
References

http://geology.about.com/od/salt/a/aboutsalt.htm. About Salt. Andrew Alden, no date given,

www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/571880/sugar. Sugar. Margaret A. Clarke, January 5,
2014
www.chemistry.about.com/od/howthingswork/f/boiling-piont-of-water.htm. What is the Boiling
Point of Water? Anne Marie Helmenstine, September 30, 2014
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html. The Water Cycle, Howard Perlman, March 18, 2014,
January 2, 2014
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclerunoff.html. Surface Runoff The Water Cycle, Howard
Perlman, April 15, 2014, January 3, 2014
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycletranspiration.html. Transpiration The Water Cycle,
Howard Perlman, April 15, 2014, January 3, 2014
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclecondensation.html. Condensation The Water Cycle,
Howard Perlman, April 15, 2014, January 6, 2014
http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/EvaporationandTranspiration.htm. Evaporation, Ravi
Shrestha, 2004, January 3, 2014
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28gh%29/guides/mtr/hyd/prcp.rxml. Precipitation, no author,
no date, January 3, 2014
The Usborne Science Encyclopedia, Kristen Rogers, Laura Howell, Alastair Smith, Phillip
Clark and Corinne Henderson, 2009, Water, pp. 72-75
The Usborne Science Encyclopedia, Kristen Rogers, Laura Howell, Alastair Smith, Phillip
Clark and Corinne Henderson, 2009, Salts, pp. 88-89
The Usborne Science Encyclopedia, Kristen Rogers, Laura Howell, Alastair Smith, Phillip

Clark and Corinne Henderson, 2009, Food And Diet, p.356

Data

Time for plain water to come to a boil: 5 minutes and 5 seconds

Time for water with sugar to come to a boil: 4 minutes and 46 seconds

Time for water with salt to come to a boil: 5 minutes and 27 seconds
Variables

Independent variable: water boiling

Dependent variable: time it takes for the water to come to a

boil
Observations

When the plain water was starting to come to a boil it forms small bubbles that

seem to cover the entire surface that the water covers in the pot. That is common

for when water starts to come up to a boil. The water started to come to a boil ( it

seemed like forever ) 5 minutes later.

Like the plain water, the water with two tablespoons of sugar also had those

bubbles in it, and it came up to a boil way faster than the plain water did. The

water with two tablespoons of salt in it took the longest amount of time to come up

to a boil.
Procedure

Step 1 Add two cups of water to the pot that you have on the stove. Turn the

stove-eye to medium high and start the stopwatch.

Step 2 When the water starts to boil stop the stopwatch and record the time it

takes to get up to a boil in your notebook.

Step 3 Wait for everything to cool off, and add two tablespoons of sugar to the

water. Stir. Turn the stove-eye to medium high, and see how long it takes to come

up to a boil. Record info.

Step 4 Again wait for everything to cool and then pour the water into the sink

and set the pot back on the stove. Put two cups of water back into the pot, and add

2 tablespoons of salt to the water. Stir. Turn stove-eye on to medium high. Wait for

the water to come to a boil. Write down how how long it takes to come to a boil.
Results

The salt ,when added to the water, made the water take longer to come up to a

boil. Therefore that was not any good. When the sugar was added to the water it

changed the time the water took to come up to a boil by a pretty good amount. It

was pretty shocking to see how the sugar changed the time.

It ended up my hypothesis was wrong. Sugar and salt can have a big difference

on the time water comes to a boil. It was very surprising.

Abstract

This experiment was chosen to see if there was any way to speed up the boiling

process of water. If there was any possible way to do that I would be helping

others, because a lot of people wish that water would boil faster. That would also

be expressing Dominion over the earth. God wants us to help others so I might be

able to accomplish that in this experiment.

I boiled plain water and timed it so I could see how long it took to boil. Then I

did the same thing again but by adding salt and then by adding sugar. Then I

would see if those two compounds would change how fast the water would come

to a boil. Salt and Sugar changed the time it took for water to come to a boil. It

made the time shorter so therefore salt and sugar have an impact on the boiling of

water.

By choosing this project I think I made a good decision because I might learn

some interesting things about sugar and salt that I never knew before, and I might

be able to figure out how to make water boil faster.