Density Tower

Sampal Mohammad Nassif M, Pecho Arrian Dale, Canete Piel Philip, Ciupan Jeffrey Mark, Del
Mundo Mcvin
Petroleum Engineering Department, CEAFA, Batangas State University
Pablo Borbon Main Campus II, Alangilan, Batangas City
mohammadsampal@gmail.com, philipcanete29@gmail.com, markciupan@yahoo.com,
Macvindelmundo16@gmail.com, adpecho@yahoo.com,

Keywords: density,oil,water,float

I. Introduction II. Experimental Detail

In this experiment you will learn how
materials that have different density behave when
they are put in the same container. You are
probably wondering what is density? Well, it is
how close together the molecules of a substance are
or how much mass (weight) a substance has in a
given space. You can also think of density as how
much space there is between the components
(molecules) of a material or even how heavy or
thick the material seems to be. This is probably a
little difficult to imagine, and this is why we are
going to show you how density makes different
liquids stay separated when we put them together.
If you pour different liquids, that you could find
around in your house, with varying densities in a
vase, we will expect the liquids with more density
are heavier and will sink to the bottom.
Anyone can have a skill of stacking up objects
like books, box or coins but not anyone can have
the skill of stacking up liquids. You’ll need a little
understanding about chemistry and density. In
doing this experiment, the first step is to know the
densities of the different liquids that will be used.
When you already did the first step you can now
proceed into the pouring of liquids into the
container. You will start with the liquid that has the
highest density (honey) up to the liquid with the
lowest density (lamp oil). Even though you mess
up in pouring the liquids into the container, still,
science will find a way. The liquids that is less
dense will float and the fluid that is heavier will
sink as time goes by. You may add food coloring
so that it will be easier to identify the colorless
liquids. The sequence of the liquids starts from
honey, dish washing liquid, water, vegetable oil,
rubbing alcohol and lamp oil.
In doing this density tower we must have
containers for the mix solutions, cylindrical bottle
for the body of the tower and some solutions that
different densities, We put a honey substance in
the cylindrical bottle we give time for it to be
stagnant. Second, We get a container to make sure
that the second substance will float at the honey.
After that, We put the dish washing liquid on the
cylindrical bottle that has honey, it floats but there
is some bubbles we’ll still wait again for the
bubbles to pop up because it can prevent the
solution of the next substance to float against it.
We mix food color in a water into a separate
container after it we use the syringe to put it
slowly into the cylindrical bottle that has the two
substance the honey and the dish washing liquid.
We put some vegetable oil with its original color
slowly to have a stagnant surface. Next is the
alcohol again we put some color in a separate
container and use syringe to put it in the density
tower we were doing. Last but not the least we put
the gas, because of its transparent color and lesser
amount of density among others it must be on the
top of the tower.
III. Results and Discussion
So if the weight (or mass) of something
increases but the volume stays the same, then
density goes up. Likewise, if the mass decreases
but the volume stays the same, then density goes
down. Lighter liquids (like water, rubbing alcohol,
gasoline or vegetable oil) are less dense than
heavier liquids (like dish washing liquid, honey or
corn syrup) so they float on top of the heavier
liquids. The same amount of two different liquids
you used in the container will have different
densities because they have different masses. The
liquids that weigh more (a higher density) will sink
below the liquids that weigh less (a lower density).
Make sure that you weigh identical volumes of
Table 1.
each liquid. You should find that the weights of the
liquids correspond to each different layer of liquid. Volume Density
For example, the honey will weigh more than the
Honey 1/4 Cup 1.42
dish soap. By weighing the same volume (e.g. ¼
Corn Syrup 1/4 Cup 1.33
cup, 60 ml) of these liquids, you will find that Dishwashing 1/4 Cup 1.06
density and weight are closely related. By Liquid
convention, plain water has a density of 1.0 and Vegetable Oil 1/4 Cup 0.92
that’s measured in g/cm3 or g/ml. So, a cubic Water 1/4 Cup 1
centimeter of water has a mass of 1 gram and fills 1 Rubbing 1/4 Cup 0.79
milliliter of volume. If a substance has a density Alcohol
less than 1.0 g/cm3, it floats on water and one with Kerosene 1/4 Cup 0.8
a density more than 1.0 g/cm3, it sinks in water.
You might have observed that the vegetable floated IV. Conclusions
We therefore conclude that the heaviest liquid
next to the water . This is due to the miscibility of
has the most mass per unit volume or the highest
the different liquids. If liquids have a very different
density. The liquids that weigh more (have a higher
chemical structure that makes one polar and the
density) will sink below the liquids that weigh less
other one unpolar, they will not mix and always
(have a lower density).Though our group was
stay separate.
successful, there could have been many limitations
to ruin an experiment's data and density column.
There are such limitations like the amount of force
you put into pouring the liquids, or the amount of
liquid used, or the mass read on the scale, or any
other limitation that could make an experiment
unsuccessful. There are many ways to mess up
an experiment so take accurate measures for better
results. Our experiment relates to the atmosphere
because it teaches us how to find density
(mass/volume=density).This also allows anyone to
make better predictions without having to solve for
density. Finally this is a good learning experience
about the atmosphere itself. As you go higher up in
the atmosphere there is less density and molecules
because gravity pulls most of it down. This is the
Figure 1. Substances in their corresponding amount of density
same with a density column because there is less
density as you go above each layer of liquid. This
proves that experiment supports how it relates to
the big topic of the atmosphere.

References

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density

https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/density.ht
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chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/120Adens
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