Project Title: Manglue
Significance of the Study Mango trees are one of the major sources of food in our country. Mangoes are very wide-spread in the Philippines. An adhesive, or glue, is a mixture in a liquid or semi-liquid state that adheres or bonds items together. Glue is very important, not only to students but also to other people. Glue is often used for projects, or generally in our daily lives.
The purpose of “manglue” is to use extracts of mango as an alternative ingredient to the vinegar ingredient of glue. The vinegar ingredient of the glue that makes the odd will be replaced with an extract from a mango, so that the scent of the glue will be pleasant, will have a touch of a different color and will be cheaper than the commercial glue.
Problem:
Main Problem:
Is mango a useful and economical alternative ingredient in making glue?
Sub-Problems:
1. Which part of the mango can be used in enhancing the scent of the glue? In making glue?
2. What is the role of the main ingredients in glue that can be replaced by mango?
3. Will it be effective?
Hypotheses
1. Mango is not an effective source of ingredient of glue.
2. Ripe mangoes are effective substitute for glue making.
3. Unripe mangoes are effective substitute for glue making.
4. There will not be an ingredient of a glue that mango can replace.
Review of Related Literature
Cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions and distributed widely in the world, mango is one of the most extensively exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color.
The ripe mango is an antiscorbutic, diuretic, laxative, invigorating, fattening and astringent.
Ripe, unpeeled mango fruit gives off a distinctive resinous, sweet smell.
An adhesive, or glue, is a mixture in a liquid or semi-liquid state that adheres or bonds items together. Adhesives may have come from either natural or synthetic sources. Some modern adhesives are extremely strong, and are becoming
References: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf46935344.tip.html http://www.make-stuff.com/formulas/glue.html http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-glue Book; Scientific Research Manual, C & E Publishing Inc, copyright 1993; member of ABAP, PBAI, NBDB, and PEPA