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“Home Made Disinfectant”

Objectives: To be able to see how acid can kill organisms.


To be able to learn how to create a home made disinfectant.
To be able to differentiate the effectiveness of a calamansi
disinfectant to a vinegar disinfectant.

Materials:
Calamansi / lemon
Vinegar
2 spray bottles
2 Flower pot with weeds

Procedures:
Prepare all the materials needed.
Squeeze the calamansi/ lemon until all its juices are out. Pour the juice
inside the spray bottle.
Put the vinegar inside the spray bottle.
Prepare the 2 flower pots and spray the vinegar and the calamansi/
lemon on each pot’s weeds.
Just put the flower pots outside. Observe what will happen to the
sprayed part.
Take note of your observations.

Questions:
1. What happen to the weeds?
2. What do you think is in the calamansi (lemon juice) and vinegar that
make the weeds react like that?
3. Is there any side effects?
4. Is the experiment effective?
5. Is it appropriate to expose this kind of experiment to the public?
“MATERIALS”

Calamansi

Vinegar
Spray Bottles

Flower Pots
“Procedures”

Squeeze
the
lemon.

Pour the vinegar


in the bottle.
Spray it to the weeds and wait for a
few days for the result.

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