Are Name Brand Paper Towels more absorbent Then Generic Brand Paper Towels

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Are Name Brand Paper Towels more absorbent Then
Generic Brand Paper Towels

• Early Middle School Grade Level
• By Mia Lagares

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Experiment

• The purpose of this experiment is to determine
  which brand of paper towel is more absorbent or
  if their even is a difference between the name
  brand paper towels or the generic paper towels.
• You need to have 4 large clear beakers/cups 4
  types of equally sized paper towels (2 types of
  name brand and 2 types of generic) 4 rubber
  bands a dropper with measurements marked on it
  and enough water supply mixed with a blue die for
  visual purposes.

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Experiment

• Place one of each type of paper towel on top of
  the clear beakers/cups while using the rubber
  band to hold the paper towel in place. You do
  this by placing it around the top of the opening.
• Once all 4 containers are properly wet up with
  the paper towels you can begin the actual
  experiment.
• Take 1mL of blue water and drop it on every paper
  tower directly in the center of the containers
  opening.

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Experiment Collected Data

• Repeat with procedure until the paper towel is no
  longer absorbing the water and you can see the
  blue water at the bottom of the clear container.
• Record how many mL every paper towel absorbs
  until the blue water goes through the paper towel
  and the blue water is visible in the bottom of
  the container itself.
• Compare your recording to determine which brand
  of paper towels are more absorbent. The higher
  number of mL it took for the blue water to be
  seen at the bottom of the container the more
  absorbent the paper towel itself is.

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Falsifiable

• This experiment can be performed in other ways
  besides the one shown. Another example would be
  to spill an the same amount of liquid in
  different areas on the same surface and count how
  many paper towels it takes for each type of paper
  towel to clean up the spill entirely.
• Or you could even use the same method for this
  experiment but test a larger amount of brands
  during the experiment.

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Logical

• This experiment is logical because the paper
  towel that absorbs the most mL of blue water is
  most absorbent paper towel whether it be a name
  brand paper towel or a generic brand.

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Replicable

• This experiment is replicable because all of the
  materials and procedures required to perform it
  are provided.

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Sufficient

• This experiment is sufficient because the answer
  to the experiments main question can be proven
  by the recorded results.
• But it is also insufficient because of the fact
  that I did not physically perform this experiment.