Blog#3 Liquids Can Be Thick or Thin (Lab experiement)


 
Title of Experiment:
The effect of temperature on flow rate of cooking oil
Question:
Does temperature affect the viscosity of oil? If so, how? How can this change be measured?

 
Hypothesis:

The change in viscosity as temperature of vegetable oil changes.  As the temperature of vegetable oil increases, the flow rate becomes faster, because according to particle theory, when particles get heat, it gains energy and move faster than usual. As the temperature of vegetable oil decreases, the flow rate also becomes slower because particles gain less energy comparing to higher temperature.

                                                            Materials
 For do this experiment we needed cooking oil, beaker, thermometer, measuring cylinder, retort stand, ring clamp, plastic cup, hot plate, ruler,and stopwatch.



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Oil Temperature

 

 
20-24°C(20°C)

 

 
5-9°C (9°C)

 

 
52°C

 

 
Time

 

 
30second

 

 
52.7second

 

 
12.2second

 

 
Flow Rate

 

 
1.6ml (1.dp) per second

 

 
0.95ml (Rounded up to 2
  decimal place) per second

 

 
4.098ml per second (3.dp)

 

 
Appearance

 

 
Color- light Yellow

 
Clear (Transparent)

 
Greasy/ Slippery

 


 

 
Color- light yellow

 
Clear, but contains few
  frozen mass.

 
 Greasy/ Slippery

 

 
Color-light yellow

 
Not very clear (Translucent)
 

 
A beaker is not transparent
  due to water vapour, we cannot see through the beaker.

 
Producing vapour

 








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