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Water Filter Experiment

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The last step for our experiment was creating a filter to clean our water. First cut the bottom off of a plastic bottle off and take the lid off. Next put the filter over the lid of the plastic bottle and place the bottle with the filter side in the 100 mL beaker. Once the bottle is in, pour an inch of charcoal, then another inch of sand. Lastly pour an inch of small rocks into the bottle as the top layer and pour in the contaminated water. The procedure for this experiment is to first get your contaminated water in a 100 mL beaker and check the pH with the pH probe (Instructions are in paragraph five).Once the pH is known pour the water in a cuvette and test the contaminated water with the colorimeter for clarity (instructions in paragraph six). After finding the clarity create the filter and pour all the contaminated water through the top so it falls through the filter and into the beaker below. After the water goes through the filter pour the water from the beaker below the filter into a cuvette and test the filtered water for the new clarity and write it down. Next pour the cuvette water back into the beaker and measure the pH with the probe and record the new numbers. …show more content…

The pH in the water is supposed to be at 7 but is at 8.33. That amount and is lowered due to the filter it goes through. The clarity of the water is another variable that is changed and lowered greatly from 71.1% to 44.1% because it went through the

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