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June 8, 2007
Science 10 Experimental Project
Kyle Chou
Turn Printed Paper Back to Blank Paper
Hypothesis: Soap mixed with boiled water has the best ability to erase
the printed words on the printed paper faster than normal water.
Background Research

To prove that \u201csoap mixed with boiled water\u201d is the liquid that can remove the words on the paper printed by laser printers is the aim of this experiment. Five different liquids are compared with \u201csoap mixed with boiled water\u201d: normal water, water mixed with soap (normal temperature), water mixed with orange juice, water mixed with alcohol, and water mixed with every material.

Laser printers print by cling toner to a light-sensitive print drum, then using static electricity to transfer the toner to the printing medium to which it is fused with heat and pressure.

A single piece of paper is made up typically by vegetable fibres
composed of cellulose, hold together by hydrogen bonding.

The reason of why \u201csoap mixed with boiled water\u201d will has the best ability to erase the words on the printed paper is that soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, and its molecules attach readily to both

nonpolar molecules (such as grease or oil on the substance) and polar
molecules (such as water), then move away from its substance.
Other liquids chemical properties are these:
\ue000Water: 2 hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen
June 8, 2007
Science 10 Experimental Project
Kyle Chou
atom.
\ue000Orange: 11.3% of carbohydrate, 0.9% of protein, 0.2% of fat, 0.5% of
ash, and 97.1% of water.
\ue000Ethanol alcohol: 2 carbon atoms and 5 hydrogen atoms covalently
bonded to a single hydroxide.
Materials

\ue0006 500mL beakers contained with 500mL water
\ue0006 pieces of printed paper from laser printer; size 10.5cm X 6.5cm
\ue0001 1mL of orange juice
\ue0002 packs of soap powder (4cm X 4cm X1cm)
\ue0001 5mL of ethanol alcohol
\ue0001 hot plate
\ue0001 incubator

Procedure
1.Set up 6 beakers contained with different mixed liquids:

\ue000Normal water, label as \u201cN\u201d
\ue000Water mixed with soap, label as \u201cS\u201d
\ue000Boiled Water mixed with soap, label as \u201cBS\u201d
\ue000Water mixed with orange juice, label as \u201cO\u201d

June 8, 2007
Science 10 Experimental Project
Kyle Chou
\ue000Water mixed with alcohol, label as \u201cA\u201d
\ue000Water mixed with everything, label as \u201cALL\u201d
2.Put 6 pieces printed paper into different beakers, wait for 10 minutes and
observing what happened to the paper.
3.Take the samples out that were successfully removed words on the paper
from water.
4.For those samples that haven\u2019t erased the word on it, wait for another 10
minutes.
5. For those samples that still not erase the words on it, wait for the last 10
minutes and take them out.
6.Use an incubator to dry paper, and try to use fingers to erase the words
on the failed samples.
Results
N
S
BS
O
A
ALL
10 minutes
X
X
X
X
X
X
20 minutes
X
X
X
X
X
X
30 minutes
X
X
X
X
X
X
Finger erase
X
X
X
X
X
X
Conclusion

In this experiment, the process was according to the procedure step by step, there were no problems had happened. However, none of those liquids could erase the words on the printed paper.

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