Distilled Water Lab

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Identifying controls The control group can be identified as distilled water for the mass part of this experiment. Also the distilled water is considered to be a positive control group. In which it's considered to be the most appropriate control group for the mass experiment because it is the same substance we are merging with that's inside the tubing. In which this control group functions as the hypotonic environment, and its a solution for free water molecules. Distilled water acted as the control group for the organic molecules being tested. Sense distilled water is purely made up of organic compounds it is considered to be a positive control group. Through out the Benedict’s test distilled water is used as the control group. Meaning…show more content…
The first table or information given helps with what the unknown solution might contain by giving its mass of some substances. Table one was collected to give an idea of whether or not each tubing contained a reduced sugar before being put into the beaker filled with distilled water. Table two gives an insight of what the tubing gained trying to reach equilibrium, by weighing the tubings first before placing them into their individual beaker filled with distilled water, then weighing it for every ten minutes for a total of ninety minutes. Collecting this data in table two helps not only with what it gained inside the tubing but give a vision of how passive transport is working making the tubings gain mass and lose mass. Table three is yet the final graph for the benedict's test, to see how much this time both the tubing and beaker solution has reducing sugars or glucose. This table helps give perception on what might of happened during table two and how the solutions now contain reducing sugars which could have been the cause of gaining or losing weight additionally benefiting on how the process of passive transport is working during this…show more content…
Glucose forty percent contained a higher concentration gradient, making it easier to pass through the plasma membrane, in this case the dialysis tubing. Free water molecules were able to pass through, do to the process of osmosis, sense the tubing was placed in distilled water and it also contained distilled water, the free water molecules were trying to balance each other out trying to reach an isotonic state. So the areas of low concentration were found mostly in the beaker, then the high concentration which was mostly found in the dialysis tubing going based of the mass experiment the tubing grew greater in mass due to the substances trying to reach equilibrium. And during this experiment Glucose and free water molecules being the substances that were identified, did pass through the membrane, because of the benedict's final testing identified one of the substances, reducing sugars such as glucose being inside the beaker and also still remaining in the tubing. As for the free water molecules, which were already present from the beginning, using dh2O, they worked themselves through and out the membrane during the process known as osmosis trying to reach isotonic state. During the mass experiment, the change in mass indicated that the substances were trying to reach equilibrium making the tubing heavier and lighter from substances coming in and also coming

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