1. What happened to the staple wires and pepper when place on the surface of the water?

Describe it.
As we placed the staple wires on the water's surface, they remained and floated on top.
Although some of the staple wires shrank since we did not place them carefully. After that, we
add ground pepper, which also floats to the surface of the water.

2. What did you observe when you gently touch the clean toothpick over the surface of the water?
When we gently touched the surface of the water with a clean toothpick, nothing
happened to the staple wires, and it didn't shrink even when we touched it close to the staple
wires.

3. Did you see how the stapler wires and pepper shoots back in all directions when you submerged
the toothpick with the soap solution? What must the soap has done to the surface tension?
When we gently touched the toothpick with soap at the end, the pepper, together with the
staple wires, shoots back in all directions. The pepper moves away from the center, where we
placed the toothpick with the soap.

Conclusion and Discussions:

To conclude, our group is able to carry out the experiment by properly following the procedures.
There is surface tension in the water, which causes the staple wires and pepper to float to the surface.
As we placed a few staples and gently touched the surface of the water with a clean toothpick, nothing
happened, and it did not shrink. After that, we sprinkled the pepper over the surface, and it also floated
on the water. The second try with soap on the end of the toothpick produced the unexpected result that
the pepper and staple wires moved away from the center when we touched the toothpick with soap on
it. We are all aware that soaps and dishwashing liquids are utilized for cleaning purposes. Our group
observed that the soap could cause the water's surface tension to alter. However, the pepper and staple
wires did not shrink because the water did not actually lose its surface tension; instead, the water
moved away from the soap in order to maintain its surface tension.

1. Initially what did you observe on the paper towels as you soaked their one ends to the
colored water?
As we soak the one ends of paper towels to the colored water, it starts to wet the paper
towels or the water goes up through the tissue.

2. Was the empty glass filled ? Which colored water initiate the first drop on the empty glass?

After a few hours, the empty glass was filled. The yellow color was the first to initiate the
first drop on the empty glass. After a few minutes, the blue began to fill the empty glasses as
well.
3. What did you observe in terms of the flow of colored water in between the thicker and
thinner fold paper towels?
As we can see in the flow of colored water, the flow of colored water in the thinner fold
papers is faster than the thicker ones because the yellow color is the first to fill the empty
glass.

Conclusion and Discussions:

In conclusion, the group was able to conduct the second experiment. When we soak the
paper tissue in colored water, it quickly rises or flows through it. We see that the water appears
to defy gravity as it travels upwards. As time passes, it slowly flows to the other end of the tissue
and passes through the empty glass. The yellow color was the first to fill the empty glass, and we
had to wait a few minutes for the blue to fill. Because yellow and blue are both primary colors,
they can combine to form a secondary color, which is green. In our experiment, the darkness of
the blue food coloring produced a dark green color in the empty glass. As observed in the
experiment, the observable behavior of the colored water is due to capillary action. Since paper
towels are formed from plant fibers, there is an adhesive force that causes colored water to
stick to the paper towel. As the colored water rises, an attractive force between the same
molecules of water creates a cohesive force that attracts more water to the paper towel,
allowing it to transfer to the empty glass. Adhesion and cohesion are the reasons why water
defies gravity and rises to the tissue surface.