Monday, April 19, 2010

Major Problemo

So in the holidays me and my dad went to BUnnings. OMG never go to Bunnings with your dad. We were only supposed to get a copper pipe and a saw and we ended up with also 3 large pots for the garden, fertiliser, a new hose and new plants. Far out!!!!!
Well My dad finally finished cutting the copper pipes and I have 16 which is more than enough and each are 5cm. So they weigh around 15grams. The scale is pretty cool you can like weigh your rubber and stuff.
Well since i had four extra pipe sections I did a little trial you know to see if this would really work. So I made two extremely concentrated solutions for two pipes. One solution was practically made of 1 part water and 7 parts vingear and the solution was 2 parts water and 6 parts bi carbonate
Well obviously the bicarbonbate didn't dissolves but i thought when I do the actually quantities I would be fine
So i left the pipes in the solutions over night and the copper in the Bi carbonate soda changed from a copper colours to a brown colour and the Copper in the vinegar solution didn;t change colour by the soluation changed from clear to blue. I guess these were obvious signs that something was happening

So I started the real experiment with the washing powder, bicarbonate and vinegar
Major issue the bicarbonate and washing powder wouldn't dissolve in the little water and would just end up sinking to the bottom. THis wasn't going to work. My dad then suggested to put make more than half the solution water but then Ms Zhand said earlier that if their was alot of water results might not show

So I've now decided to screw the bicarbonate powder and dish washing powder. I am going to replace them with lemon juice and washing liquid. How smart am I. Liquid will obviously have no trouble mixing with another liquid. But I can't start the experiment till tomorrow. I still have to get Ms Zhang's ok and my dad still hasn't gone shopping.

Anyway This will take around 4 week to 5 weeks so I should be done by week6 which is 3 weeks before the major report is due which isn't too bad. I hope these copper pipes rust or show some change

Anyway byeee