Why Do Sodium Citrate
IX. CONCLUSION
Overall, our hypotheses were proved to be mostly correct. We believe that if the amount of sodium citrate is too low or too high, the sodium alginate solution would not form into a ball. The recommended amount of sodium citrate to be added to the sodium alginate solution was ⅛ teaspoon, or 0.5 grams. We supposed that if we exceeded this measurement, the sodium citrate would unbalance the whole solution, making the balls deform. If we added too little of the sodium citrate, we thought that there would be too little for the sodium citrate to fully do its job of forming spheres. We expected no balls to form if there was no sodium citrate. So as we assumed, 0.5 grams of sodium citrate worked the best of creating perfect spheres.
Overall, our hypotheses were proved to be mostly correct. We believe that if the amount of sodium citrate is too low or too high, the sodium alginate solution would not form into a ball. The recommended amount of sodium citrate to be added to the sodium alginate solution was ⅛ teaspoon, or 0.5 grams. We supposed that if we exceeded this measurement, the sodium citrate would unbalance the whole solution, making the balls deform. If we added too little of the sodium citrate, we thought that there would be too little for the sodium citrate to fully do its job of forming spheres. We expected no balls to form if there was no sodium citrate. So as we assumed, 0.5 grams of sodium citrate worked the best of creating perfect spheres.