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Unknown Substances Lab Report
We demonstrated that there are a variety of tests that can be used to identify an unknown substance, however, if the list of substances was not available, identifying the unknown substances would have been much more difficult. We were able to identify each substance by comparing the data obtained with the data listed on the substance labels. There were a few errors present within this lab. Originally, we were going to test the conductivity of each substance as a solid as well as the conductivity of each substance dissolved in water, however, the conductivity testers did not work on the solid substances. This hindered our ability to determine whether a substance was a metal. Another error within our experiment was that not all of the tests

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