What is bone made of?
Aim To investigate the effect of acid on bone.
Method
Method
- Get four chicken bones
- Cleaned all the pieces of leftover food off the piece of bone
- Weighed all the pieces of bone
- Put the bones in different containers
- Put Water in one of them
- Put acid in another
- Put coke in another
- Close the containers
- Wait two weeks.
- Check after two weeks and see what happened
Results
Bone in Water
|
Bone in Acid
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Bone in Coca Cola #1
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Bone in Coca Cola #2
| |
Observation
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Smells really bad
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Really bendy
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Discoloured but not
bendy |
Discoloured but not
bendy |
Mass (g) Before
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8g
|
9g
|
8g
|
8g
|
Mass (g) After
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12g
|
8.8g
|
8.8g
|
9.8g
|
Difference in Mass
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.4g
|
-.2g
|
.8g
|
1.8g
|
Conclusion
The bones have different weights and they all smell different. The water bone
and both bones in coke went up and weight, the acid went down in weight.
The coke bones had went a disgusting blackish brown colour. Coke didn't
properly work so had to try again.
and both bones in coke went up and weight, the acid went down in weight.
The coke bones had went a disgusting blackish brown colour. Coke didn't
properly work so had to try again.
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