Which Drink Floats Your Boat

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Which Drink Floats Your Boat

• Science Lab

Chemistry Lab Experiment
Density Gilbert, Castillo Wiseman,
Massenburg 19 SEP 02
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Purpose Hypothesis

• Which Pepsi product will make the best Pepsi
  float?
• We feel that regular Pepsi will make the best
  Pepsi float.

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Materials

• Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi One and Caffeine Free
  Pepsi
• 4-250 mL Beakers
• Triple Beam Balance
• Vanilla Ice Cream (small cups)
• Ice Cream Scoop

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Procedure/Method

• Gathered materials
• Massed the beakers, w/ w/o 250 mL of Pepsi
• Added the ice cream from each cup to the beakers
• Tallied the additional mL

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Data

• Drink Density Supported At
• Pepsi .9480 g/mL 210 mL
• Twist .9265 g/mL 300 mL
• Diet .9605 g/mL 225 mL
• One .9485 g/mL 250 mL

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Results

• ---Hypothesis wrong
• ---Pepsi Twist better
• 90 mL better than Pepsi

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Side Lines

• There was a reaction between the ice cream and
  the Pepsi Twist. Could be another experiment
• We could eat our experiment, most others could not

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This will float your boat.

• With a density of .984g/mL Pepsi Twist is a clear
  winner by supporting the ice cream at 300mL.

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Runner up

• Pepsi One has a density of .9485g/mL. It
  supported the scoop of ice cream at 250mL.

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Sore Losers

• Diet Pepsi at .9605g/mL supported the ice cream
  at 225mL.
• In last place came Pepsi with a density .9840 and
  supported the scoop at 210mL