LABORATORY REPORT TITLE : MEASURING pH LEVELS AND WATER ACTIVITY OF FOODS NAME: MATRIC NO: GROUP: 2 DATE OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK: 13 MARCH 2013 DATE OF SUBMISSION: 20 MARCH 2013 TITLE: MEASURING pH LEVELS AND WATER ACTIVITY OF FOODS ACTIVITY 1 Introduction : This experiment was performed to investigate the pH levels of different types of food products. The pH of a solution can be determined experimentally in several ways. The pH scale is the range of pH values from 0 to 14. The paper that
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learning how to measure the pH of several different liquids as well as learning how to change the pH of those liquids by adding other acidic and alkaline mixtures. Materials: Graduated cylinder- used to measure the various liquids 4 100 mL beakers- used to hold liquids when measuring pH pH meter- used to measure the pH of the various liquids Tap water- liquid we are trying to find pH of Distilled water- liquid we are trying to find pH of Soda- liquid we are trying to find pH of Milk- liquid we
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| The effect of salinity on osmosis of solanum tuberosum L.(potatoes) | Biology HL Internal Assessment – Year 10 | | Teresa Nguyen | | Table of Contents 1 DESIGN 2 1.1 Defining the problem 2 FOCUS QUESTION 2 HYPOTHESIS 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 2 INVESTIGATION VARIABLES 3 1.2 Controlling Variables 3 TREATMENT OF THE CONTROLLED VARIABLES 3 CONTROL EXPERIMENT 4 1.3 Experimental Method 4 MATERIALS 4 RISK ASSESSMENT 5 METHOD 5 2 DATA COLLECTION and PROCESSING 7 2.1 Recording Raw
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Purpose: To see the effects of tonicity’s on potato cells. Background: Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a differentially permeable membrane due to concentration differences. Tonicity is the concentration of solutes. The potato cell has 3% of dissolved materials. Hypertonic is when the solution has more dissolved materials outside the cell than inside. The cell will lose water this way and shrink. The potatoes in the 5% salt solution will shrink. Hypotonic is when there is less solute dissolved
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Factors affecting Enzyme Activity: The effect of pH on enzyme activity Background Knowledge: An enzyme is a biological catalyst – which speeds up the reaction rate‚ without itself getting altered. Enzymes are proteins with long polypeptide chains that are folded up into three – dimensional shapes. An enzyme acts on a substrate to convert the substrate into a product useful for the organism.The active site is a special region on the surface of the enzyme where the substrate binds to the enzyme.
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Osmosis is the diffusion of free water molecules from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration across a partially permeable membrane. Osmosis is complete when all of the water molecules have been evenly spread out and can take place either in plant cells or animal cells‚ so long as a partially permeable membrane is present. Osmosis can also be conducted in the visking tubing experiment‚ where the visking tubing is an artificial permeable membrane. So how does Osmosis take place
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Introduction The movement of water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane is the process of osmosis. If there is a solute and a solvent‚ each containing different concentration levels‚ then the water would move along its concentration gradient until each side of the membrane are equal. The water moves because the membrane is impermeable to the solute and the solute concentrations may differ on either side of the membrane. Water molecules may move in and out of the cell‚ but there is no net diffusion
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Determining the Optimal Temperature and PH of Barley Amylase Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to find the optimal temperature and pH of barley alpha-amylase. I hypothesize that the optimal temperature would be 55 degrees Celsius and the optimal pH would be 5.5. In this experiment‚ the starch is used as a substrate to examine the optimum temperature and pH for the reaction of alpha amylase. It is known that the measuring of disappearance (absorbance) of the substrate starch with iodine
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compounds that generally have opposite characteristics. They have there own unique traits‚ acids taste sour‚ turn litmus red while bases taste bitter and turn litmus blue. The term pH relates to measuring the acidity or alkalinity of a solution‚ such as vinegar‚ or even a damp substance like soul. The neutral pH is 7‚ which is essentially water‚ with lower numbers indicating acidity and higher numbers indicating alkalinity. Hydronium ions (H3O+) are formed when water molecules (H2O) bond with
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Experiment for the measurement of carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations and their functions during the act of breathing. Introduction: Humans‚ like all living organisms need‚ O2 in order to live‚ they take the necessary O2 from the atmospheric air. The O2 is transferred from the blood to all cells of the body and serves for oxidation of nutrients for example glucose. By oxidize the nutrients released energy‚ which is necessary for the functions of the human body. During oxidation produces
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