You are studying the boiling points of liquids with some fellow students. You have two liquids of different molecular weights, and you test each of them twice. You find that the one with a lower molecular weight also has a lower boiling point.

Question

You are studying the boiling points of liquids with some fellow students. You have two liquids of different molecular weights, and you test each of them twice. You find that the one with a lower molecular weight also has a lower boiling point.

You would like to be more confident with the pattern you
are noticing. What are two possible next steps? In one to two sentences, give specific, different examples of how the experiment could be extended, assessed, or improved.

Answer 1

One possible next step could be to repeat the experiment with additional liquids of different molecular weights to observe if the lower molecular weight consistently corresponds to a lower boiling point. Another possible next step could be to conduct the experiment under different conditions, such as varying atmospheric pressure, to determine if it has any effect on the observed pattern between molecular weight and boiling point.