Home-based experiment # 1

“How Many Drops Can You Put on a Five-peso Coin”

Objective
To demonstrate cohesion as a property of liquids
Materials
5-peso coin detergent solution (10 ml)
water water + one drop of dishwashing liquid
two droppers
Procedure:
1. Lay a five-peso coin on a table
2. Fill a dropper with water and count the number of drops
you can put on the coin before it spills over the edge.
3. Fill another dropper with the detergent solution and repeat
the process.
Questions for Analysis:
1. What did you observe when you dropped water onto the
coin?
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2. What did you observe when you dropped detergent

solution onto the coin?
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3. What property of water is observed in the experiment?

Why?
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Conclusions
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PICTURES: (While doing the experiment)