Household Chemical Lab Instructions:
Obtain a lab sheet from the teacher.
You will be testing 10 different household chemicals (food may be used too but will need to be supplied by you) with litmus paper to determine if they are acidic, basic or neutral.
Lab procedures:
Obtain a lab sheet from the teacher.
You will be testing 10 different household chemicals (food may be used too but will need to be supplied by you) with litmus paper to determine if they are acidic, basic or neutral.
Lab procedures:
- Before you can begin, you must write out the problem and your hypothesis on the lab sheet. Your hypothesis must be specific (indicate which chemicals you think will be acidic, basic or neutral). That means that you will have to pick out your 12 items before you write your hypothesis.
- Construct a data table. [remember IV is what you are changing or testing and it forms the first column/ DV is what you are measuring and it makes up the remainder of the data table] Note: the data table must indicate what your hypothesis was for each chemical and the results that you found out.
- Next, conduct your tests making sure that you fill in the data table.
- Materials: “dippy” tray, red litmus paper, blue litmus paper, 12 items (and, of course, the lab sheet).
- Clean up you lab table area and any equipment you used.
- Finish the Lab sheet and turn it in to the white tray.