Homework Help Forum: 6th grade

Posted by James on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 12:34pm.

Which grows faster, salt crystals or sugar crystals?

• 6th grade - Ms. Sue, Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 12:45pm

  Try this experiment and you can find the answer yourself. http://www.unmuseum.org/excrys.htm

  
  

• 6th grade - bobpursley, Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 12:50pm

  IT depends on the concentration of each in the initial solution, and temperature. So you have to know how much you started with. Now, notice here that sugar is much more sensitive to temperature. http://depts.uwc.edu/chemistry/helpful_files/solsaltsugar.gif If you start with all the sugar you can, and in all the salt you can , both in the same very hot water, then let it cool, you can see that there is much more sugar that will come out of solution as it cools.

  
  

Answer this Question

First Name:
School Subject:
Answer: