Gummy Bear Lab Report

In this lab, the mass and volume of gummy bears were measured after being placed in salt solution and distilled water. Temperature was also measured to see how the rate of diffusion would differ between a room temperature solution and a heated one. I can accept half of my hypothesis. For the distilled water solution, my group ended up with a different result than expected. The solution should have been hypotonic because the concentration of distilled water is lower than the concentration of the gummy bear. The results we got for that could indicate that the gummy bear is not as concentrated as I predicted because of the decrease in its mass or that I possibly made a mistake somewhere in the experiment. When the gummy bear was placed in the salt solution, my hypothesis was correct. The gummy bear decreased in mass because the water from the gummy bear was drawn to the salt solution. When doing the diffusion part, we found that heat sped up the process of diffusion. This is because more heat provides more energy and makes particles move a lot faster.
My group did not encounter any problems during this experiment, but I feel as if an error may have been experienced in the lab because of the result from the gummy bear in the distilled water. I may have unknowingly measured the wrong amount of distilled water that was needed. In the future, I will make …show more content…
I did have the correct result for the gummy bear when it was placed in salt solution. Even though I could not personally prove the entire hypothesis to be right, I can understand how the hypothesis was formed and agree with it. The distilled water should have been a hypotonic solution because the gummy bear is more concentrated and its mass should have increased. The salt solution was hypertonic because of the solution was far more concentrated than the gummy bear. A higher temperature speeds up the rate

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