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**Sugar Lab**

__**Purpose**.__ Determine how surface area and temperature affect the amount of solutes dissolved into the solvent of water.

**__Hypothesis.__** The loose sugar will melt faster than the sugar cubes because the cubes are more dense.

__**Materials**.__
 * 1) Hot plates
 * 2) Beakers
 * 3) Loose sugar
 * 4) Sugar cubes
 * 5) Stopwatch
 * 6) Thermometer
 * 7) Room temperature water
 * 8) 40 (c) degrees water
 * 9) 60 (c) degrees water
 * 10) 80(c) degrees water
 * 11) Boiling water 100 (c) degrees


 * __Procedure.__**
 * 1) Formed our group
 * 2) Gathered our materials
 * 3) Filled the beakers with room temperature water
 * 4) Put 2 sugar cubes in a beaker
 * 5) Put loose sugar in the other beaker
 * 6) Set stopwatch
 * 7) Heated beakers with water to 40 (c)
 * 8) Put 2 sugar cubes in a beaker
 * 9) Put loose sugar in the other beaker
 * 10) Set Stopwatch
 * 11) Heated beaker with water to 60(c)
 * 12) Put 2 sugar cubes in a beaker
 * 13) Put loose sugar in the other beaker
 * 14) Set Stopwatch
 * 15) Heated beaker with water to 80 (c)
 * 16) Put 2 sugar cubes in a beaker
 * 17) Put loose sugar in the other beaker
 * 18) Set Stopwatch
 * 19) Heated Beaker with water to boil
 * 20) Put 2 sugar cubes in a beaker
 * 21) Put loose sugar in the other beaker
 * 22) Set Stopwatch
 * 23) Repeated experiment again


 * __Observation and Data__**



The cube sugar dissolved more slowly than the lose sugar; however, at 40 (c) the lose sugar actually dissolved more slowly than the cube. As I thought, the higher the temperature, the less time it takes for both the cubes and lose sugar to dissolve. The lose sugar is less dense, so the energy created from the heat is able to dissolve the sugar quickly.



The averages chart shows that the cubes will dissolve more slowly as the room temperature decreases and that the temperature changes make a larger difference on the cubes dissolving than the lose sugar.