INVESTIGATION FOLLOWUP

AUBREY GARRARD
MARCH 10, 2022
MR. VINAJA
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
 Investigation Followup

PROCEDURE

My investigation was to see how long certain liquids diffuse food

coloring into them. My problem was, “How long does it take food coloring to

diffuse into water, oil, hydrogen peroxide, and milk?” My hypothesis was

that the food coloring would diffuse fastest in the water but slowest in the

oil.

To do this experiment, I measured two cups of the liquid into a

measuring cup. For the water and milk, I had to wait for them to get to room

temperature. But for the hydrogen peroxide and oil, I could go ahead and

put two drops of food coloring in them and wait for them to diffuse. After the

water and milk got to room temperature, I could put the two drops of food

coloring in them and wait for the diffusion to happen.

Instead of doing two trials, as I said in my investigation plan, I did

three trials, so it would be a more accurate average.

There was no control group in my experiment. My constants were the

amount of the liquid, and the number of drops of food coloring I put in the

liquid. My variable was the kind of liquid I used to observe the diffusion

process.

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RESULTS

The average diffusion time for the water was about 139 seconds. For

the hydrogen peroxide, the average diffusion time was 214 seconds. The

oil and milk did not have an average time since they did not really work.

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CONCLUSION

From the data I gathered, only part of my hypothesis was right. I was

right that the water took the least amount of time to diffuse. Between the

water and the hydrogen peroxide, the two experiments that did work, the

water only took an average of 139 seconds, while the hydrogen peroxide

took 214 seconds (see Graph). The experiment with the oil did not work, so

that part of my hypothesis cannot be measured.