Properties Of Gas

What is the correlation (connections, similarities, changes) between pressure and temperature as well as the state of matter you are changing?


What causes the lid to blow off? What patterns do you see?
I think that the lid blew off because of the pressure inside of the pot and because of the molecules of some substance were moving around so fast as the temperature rises that the lid blows off. I see that in almost every one that at a certain point the lid blows off.
What happens to the molecules when you decrease or increase the temperature? What about pressure?
When you increase the temperature the molecules move much faster and bounce off of the walls of the pot. When you decrease the temperature the molecules slow down or if it is at a freezing point the molecules stop moving completely! If you add pressure to the pot it depends on how many molecules are in the pot, if there are a lot of molecules then it would be easier to blow the top because it wouldn't have any more space to spread.
What if the temperature doesn't change, but you compress the matter inside the pan?
If you did the top would blow of because you would compress it and the molecules wouldn't have any space to move around so they would have to escape.

Surface Tension of Water on a Penny

New Highly Stable Fuel-Cell Catalyst Gets Strength from Its Nano Core

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110101325.htm
Published by: Science Daily
Date when published: Nov. 12, 2010

In this article it is basically talking about how the scientists are making new and improved fuel-cells that are stronger than the other ones that we used before the scientists came up with the new fuel-cells. And the new ones are now not only more more stable but stronger to. Now, scientists at the DOE (U.S. Department of Energy) have made something that uses only a single layer of platinum and it makes it more harder to brake it and minimizes the risk of it tearing and wearing off.

Here are some things of the quotes from this article:
"Our studies of the structure and activity of this catalyst -- and comparisons with platinum-carbon catalysts currently in use -- illustrate that the palladium core 'protects' the fine layer of platinum surrounding the particles, enabling it to maintain reactivity for a much longer period of time," explained Brookhaven Lab chemist Radoslav Adzic, who leads the research team.

"This indicates the excellent durability of this electrocatalyst, especially when compared with simpler platinum-carbon catalysts, which lose nearly 70 percent of their reactivity after much shorter cycling times. This level of activity and stability indicates that this is a practical catalyst. It exceeds the goal set by DOE for 2010-2015 and it can be used for automotive applications," Adzic said.

Worm goo conection to corn starch!!!!

In the experiment for the worm goo and the corn starch i saw that the worm goo was instant, and so was the corn starch, but i still think that the worm goo was more instant and faster turning into a solid than the the corn starch did when it turned into that mysterious goo. It took longer for the corn starch to mix with the water because the water was a liquid when it hit the corn starch and the corn starch was still a solid!! So there for the corn starch had to be mixed with our hands or the spoons to make it the actual goo!! So when the liquid (the worm goo) pored into the other liquid it turned into an instant solid!!

Insta-Worms

Microsensors Offer First Look at Whether Cell Mass Affects Growth Rate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115131125.htm
Published on Nov. 15, 2010.
By: Science Daily
University of Illinois students are using a new kind of microsensors to answer one of the questions in biology.The relationship between cell mass (depending on how much mass your cells have) and growth rate (depending on how fast you are growing). Here is what Bashir, who also directs the Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering Laboratory at Illinois said. "It's merging micro-scale engineering and cell biology," said Bashir, who also directs the Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering Laboratory at Illinois. "We can help advance biology by fabricating new tools that can be used to address important questions in cell biology, cancer research and tissue engineering." He basically said the we can help make biology advanced by making new tools that can be used to address important questions in cell biology, cancer research and tissue engineering. "As you make the structure smaller and smaller, it becomes more sensitive to the mass that's placed on it," Bashir said. He is very right! Just like when today in science class we saw how much water droplets could fit on a penny! The smaller the serfus area(in this case a structure) the it becomes more and more sensitive to the mass that is put on it!

Corn Starch Summarey

What happened when you held it, let it drip, squeezed it, punched it, poked it, scooped it?
When i let it drip it was so liquidey but when I squeezed it or punched it or poked it it emediatley became solid and was very hard.
What happened when there was too much water? When there wasn't enough water?
When there was to much water then it didnt have the rite consistencey, when there wasnt enough water the corn starch was all dryed up and is didnt have any liquid in it and it wasnt acting like normal corn starch!!!!
Did the substance change after time?
Yes it did. When i broght it to my loker i put it in my loker and left it there untill the end of the day. When i looked in my loker at the end of the day i took the korn starch and all of the water had been seperated from the corn starch.
How did your hands react to this mixture?
My hands were very excited even befor we even mixed the corn starch and also will we were doing the corn starch.
What further inquiry (questions or tests) could you do? What tests could you run next time or which ones did you run today that would provide evidence to your conclusion of whether it is solid or liquid material?
I think that me and Ogi could boil the corn starch and saw what hapend. I think that it would just become just corn starch because the water from the corn starch would evaporate from the goo and it would just becom corn starch.
Why is corn starch so special when it is only mixed with water?
It is special because then when it is mixed with water it becomes a liqud, solid. When you poke it or punch it, it becomes a solid but if you leav it in youre hands it will be liqude again.
What are your final thoughts of today's experiment and investigation?

My final thoughts are that it was so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me and my partner were so estonished be how the corn starch was driping from our hand and how when we squezed it it became a solid!!!

Clam Cleanup Biologists Clam Up Waterways To Determine Sources Of Pollution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0110-clam_cleanup.htm
Bye: Science Dayle
Published: January 1, 2009

Biologists are able to determent what type of toxic stuff is in the water by putting clams in the water so the clams suck up the toxins in the water and then the biologists can see when they detach the bode from the clam its self and then they can test it to see what was in the water. The local high school students had helped the biologists do that.

Some toxins in the water you can see, and some you cant. Like for an Ex, you cant see the chemical toxins that are in the water, but you can see toxins in the water like for an Ex, cups, old tennis shoos, tennis balls, and made even bigger things like bikes, stoves and stuff like that.They can contain very harmful toxins, like they ruin the waterways, what is in the water and it will destroy anything in it.
And here are a few quotes:
"We're using them as pollutant traps," said Harriette Phelps, Ph.D., a biologist at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C.

"It's been a great experience to actually come and see them and be the ones to pick them up out of the water," student Caitlin Virta said.

"We can trace them back to sources, and then hopefully we can go from there and get rid of the sources," Dr. Phelps said.

My glogster!!!!

A Race to Help Haiti

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,2027478,00.html
Published by- Suzanne Zimbler
First published- October 25, 2010

Nine months after a earthquake struck Haiti, more than one million people are still living in camps in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. With so many people living in close areas, people of the government have been very scared a major spread of disease will spread through the contrey. Now, they are fighting to prevent a deadly disease from spreading to the camps that the people are living in rite now. They didn't succeed. Over 3,000 people got the sickens. The sickens is called cholera. It is pronounced kol-er-uh.

Cholera spreads when people drink dirty water. The people think that the river Artibonite was the thing that caused the cholera disease. This is what Jean-Francois St. Felix said
"We know that the disease is affecting the community near the river," says Jean-Francois St. Felix, who works for Haiti's National Department of Water Supply and Sanitation. "We are in the middle of informing people in the region."
Haiti has enough medicine to help over 100,000 people. They have raised that much money to do that and other donations have bean made from other agencies.
"It's not difficult to prevent the spread to Port-au-Prince," said Health Ministry director Gabriel Timothee. "We can prevent it."

Computer Interface Technology

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/technology/computerinterface.html

This video talks about the new touch screen table that can virtually do anything! It can put a picture in a phone with a slip of a finger across the table. It can also figure out what is on the table and it can take a picture out of a camera and it will just pop up on the table. Without all the hassle of all the cords and wires plugging it into the computer and into the phone.

I chose this video because it interested me on how it works and on what kinds of cool things you can do on it and with it. I found this video just by looking through the sites and I just thought that it would be fun and cool to read. I learned that anything can be possible if you put your mind to it. So that is all you need to know!!

http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles/mysteries/the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle_15176.html

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This article tells you about producing biodiesel and how it mite affect the world and people or plants and animals on our planet. E. Colin talks about if we can engineer bio organisms to produce biodiesel fuels, we'll have a new way of storing and using energy.

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In this picture the microorganism can be made to make it overproduce fatty acids. Now, back to creating renewable energy. Creating renewable energy by making fuels, like making alcohol out of corn. Although biodiesel can be made out of food, it will interfere with our food source and it is to expensive. One alternative is to modify the E. coli microorganism to make it overproduce fatty acids, which are used to make biodiesel. Fatty acid molecules aren't that different from a lot of fuel molecules. Because they are both types of fuels. So if you think making biodiesel fuel is easy, then think again!!

Spray on fashion!!

Spray on fashion!

Currently being developed by a company called Fabrican, the material is the genius outcome of working together between Spanish designer, Manel Torres and Paul Lukham, a professor of particle technology at London's Imperial College. As the name indicates, it literally involves spraying a person with an can that contains short fibers and polymers, mixed in with a solvent that helps turn the clothing to a liquid form. As it dries, the fibers bind together creating a fabric that can be peeled off and tucked away in the closet, just like any other shirt. And if you are thinking about can it be washed then yes, it can be washed! It is amazing what kind of materials we are yousing now a days! I chose this topic because it looked very unusual, cool, and at the same time interesting. When i finally saw at the end how it was sticking together and h0w it wasn't falling apart. I made a prediction to myself on why the substance was sticking together and not falling apart. I predicted that the substance was moist enough to be sticking together and to be solid enough for it to be very strong and not to fall apart.

Spray on shirts!!!

http://www.dogonews.com/2010/9/19/need-a-new-shirt-spray-it-on

Matter reflection!!~!

I observed that the solid was always definet Mass, shape, volume. And that on heating it expands real low, a low compressibility. The liquid is almost the same exept fore the indefinite volume.

The states of matter

Gas	Indefinat	Definat	Indefinat	V.E	E>	He, Co2,N, Oc, H
Liquid	Definat	Definat	Indefinat	Low	E.S.	H2o, Juise, soda, Oil, Liquid nitrogen.
Solid	Definit	Definat	Definat	Almost none	E<	Ice, Stones, Tree