Does The Concentration Of Salt Affect The Density Of Water Essay

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How Does the Concentration of Salt in Water Affect the Density of the Solution?
Introduction-
Density is the mass of an object divided by its volume. Density can help you understand why objects sink or float. If the density of the object is less than the density of the water, then the object will float. On the other hand, if the density of the object is more than the density of the water than the object will sink. In this lab, the density of salt water was tested to see how the concentration of salt affected the density of the solution. The guiding question for this investigation is: How does the concentration of salt in water affect the density of the solution?
Method-
Three cups of water were filled with 70 ml of water. Different concentrations of salt were put into the cups. One cup was left with no salt to serve as a control. The independent variable is the amount of salt put into each cup. The dependent variable is the density. The important constants to maintain are, the volume and temperature of water in the cups. The cups of water were then weighed on a triple beam balance to measure the mass which was recorded. Then as a second trial to improve accuracy the solutions were measured again.
After the mass was collected, it was divided by the volume to …show more content…

The average density for 5 g of salt was 1.06 and the average density for 10g of salt was 1.13. The density for 5 grams of salt is exactly 0.07 grams more than 0 grams as shown in the graph. The density for 10 grams of salt is exactly 0.07 grams more than 5 grams. This observation can explain why the line of best fit in the graph went perfectly through the points and confirm that the hypothesis was correct. It is recommended to do further testing, as there were only 2 trials and 3 test

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