ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Firstly Thanks to God, we completely finish our third experiment for WTE 219, wood
properties lab as we have given enough time to finish it. The experiments are about
how to determine hot-water solubility of wood.
Secondly, we would like to thank our dearest lecturer for WTE 219, Miss
Noorshashillawati Azura binti Mohammad for her taught and guidance during the
experiment. She helped us so much during her lecture in order to ensure that we
manage to perform well during our experiment.
Nevertheless, we also want to express our deepest gratitude to our dedicated
lab assistant, Mr. Rudaini for showing us the proper way of completing our
experiment. He helped us so much by showing us the proper method to handle the
experiment, hence to get the best result.
We hope that on the following experiments, we can perform better with lots of
improvement for the next experiment, together with guidance from our lecture. Thank
you

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE CONTENT
1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2 TABLE OF CONTENT
3 INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS
METHOD
4 RESULT
5 DISCUSSION
6 CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
EXPERIMENT 3: DETERMINATION OF HOT-WATER SOLUBILITY OF WOOD
Introduction
This experiment provides a measure of extraneous components, such as tannins,
gum, sugars and colouring matter, and in addition, starches.
Material and apparatus
Stainless Petri dish
Sawdust
Spatula
Oven
Desiccators class
Gooch crucible
Erlenmeyer flask
Distilled water reflex condenser
Filtering crucible

Procedure
1. Weigh out accurately about 2 gram, of air-dry sawdust in stainless steel
Petri dish 0.001 gram.
2. Then transfer sawdust to a 250ml, Erlenmeyer flask, submerged in a
boiling water bath, and add 100ml of distilled water.
3. Attach the reflux condenser and digest for three hour, making certain
the water level is held just above the solution level in the flask.
4. Filter the contents of the flask to tare filtering crucible, wash with hot

water and dry in oven to constant weight at 105°c in 24 hours.

5. Lastly, take sample and put in Desiccators class and then weigh it and
take the reading.

RESULT
A (gram)
w1 19.492
w2 21.492
y1 10.833
Calculation
Wt. of stainless steel Petri dish=19.492 g (w1)
Wt. of stainless steel Petri dish + A.D. sawdust =19.492+2
=21.492 gram (W2)
Wt of A.D. sawdust= W2-W1=2 gram (W3)
Wt of O.D. sawdust=W3X
=2 x 0.9869
=1.9738 gram
Wt. of crucible=10.833gram (Y1)
Wt. of crucible + O.D. extract=10.833 + 21.8334
=32.666 gram (Y2)
Wt. of O.D. extract= y2-y1 = 32.666 - 10.833
=21.833 gram (Y3)
%Hot water solubility= (W3X-Y3) x 100 = ((1.9738 x 21.833)/1.9738) x 100
W3X

=21833 %
Discussion
Question 1
What is the name of extractive that soluble in hot water?
Answer
Starches

Question 2
Why we use hot water?
Answer
Starch only can be soluble in hot water.

Conclusion
The percent of water solubility is 21833 %
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Miss Noorshashillawati Azura Binti Mohammad, Laboratory Manual Wood
Chemistry (WTE 219), University Technology Mara, 26400 Bandar Pusat
Jengka, Pahang.