Sunday, 8 May 2011
Chemistry Option #2!!
Another great idea we came up with that involves experimentation is to get a few test tubes full of soil, take them back to the school, and extract the soil from the oil with hexane (C6H14). We could see how long it takes the oil to be extracted, yet I haven't really thought of where we could go from there. Ideas?
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I'm confused on how finding out how long it will take the hexane to extract the soil/oil will aid in our project.. can you enlighten me?...but I have another idea regarding the soil samples, we could sample areas close to the river, say: at the river bank, 5 m away, 10 m away, 15 m away, etc. and determine to what extent the oil has become part of the land ecosystem as well as the water ecosystem. Also if we are lucky/unlucky enough to find any dead animals while we are there, is it possible that we could test them to find oil content in their bodies?
ReplyDeleteI asked Mr. Bryant the same question and got a bit of a vague response. Let's just take the samples and we can think of a question with what we have. Kind of working backwards.
ReplyDeleteYep, that sounds like a good idea. I did mention that in the bio section, but it is really hard to determine oil content in the bodies of animals with the equipment we have and it is also just difficult (though not impossible) because of the fat content in animals already.