Lab: Hypotonic Solution

Potato Lab
Background information: A hypertonic solution is a concentration that is higher than the solution. A Hypotonic solution is a concentration that is lower than the solution. An isotonic solution is a concentration and solution that is the same amount.

Hypothesis question: What will happen if you put a potato in hypertonic solution? What will happen if you put a potato in hypotonic solution? What will happen if you put a potato in isotonic solution?

Hypothesis statement: If you put sugar water in one cup, salt water in another cup and plain water in another cup then the slice of potato will expand in the sugar water shrink in the saltwater, and stay the same in the regular water because of the hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solution.

Materials:
3 cups
Scale
Measuring cups
Water
Sugar
Salt
(20 ml of water, 80 grams of sugar) 6) Make a hypotonic solution. (80ml of water, 20 grams of salt.) 7) Make an isotonic solution. (100 ml of water.) 8) Place one potato in each cup and record which potato goes in each cup. 9) Leave overnight 10) Next day, take out each potato slice one at a time 11) Record the new weight of each potato on the scale. 12) Put the potato slices in the same solutions they were in. 13) Repeat steps 9-12 14) Clean up experiment 15) Find the differences in weight of each potato slice. 16) Write conclusion

Data and Analysis: | Initial Mass | Day 1 | Day 2 | Change | 20% Hypotonic Solution Salt | 8.2 grams | 8.0 grams | 7.9 grams | -0.29 grams | 80% Hypertonic Solution Sugar | 8.0 grams | 6.5 grams | 5.6 grams | -2.4 grams | 100% Isotonic SolutionWater | 8.0 grams | 10.0 grams | 10.3 grams | 2.3 grams |