Kool-Aid Experiment
Boiling point of kool-aid
How will adding different flavors of Kool-Aid to water affect the water's boiling point?
Hypothesis: If you change the flavor of Kool-Aid, then the boiling point will change.
Independent variable: flavor of Kool-Aid
Dependent variable: boiling point
Controlled variables: amount of sugar and kool-aid, amount of water, container boiled in, how we boil it, thermometer, how the thermometer is placed
Procedure
pour 200 ml water into a beaker
test the boiling point of water by lighting a bunsen burner and setting it under the beaker with thermometer in the water
record results in the chart
pour 200 ml water into beaker
pour package of kool-aid into water
pour spoonful of sugar into water
stir
test the boiling point of the kool-aid by lighting a bunsen burner and setting it under the beaker with thermometer in the kool-aid
record results in the chart
- do steps 4-9 with other packages of kool-aid
Thermometers!!!!!!!!
Materials
In order to collect data we needed to use:
- thermometer
- bunsen burner
- matches
- kool-aid
- sugar
- gas
- beaker
- water
- spoon
Conclusion
Our conclusion is that the kool-aid changed the boiling point of water. Almost every one of the flavors had a higher boiling point than the water. We learned that happened because kool-aid is a solute which means it dissolves into a liquid, or solvent. This causes the boiling point to be higher because there is more stuff in the water that makes it boil at a higher temperature.