STI College Las Piñas Campus

LABORATORY REPORT

GE1717 - Chemistry for Engineers

THE ALUMINUM BALL CHALLENGE

By: Comia, Adrianne Jose L.

II. Abstract

The trial generated a large amount of data about conducting the experiment, which

is the aluminum foil ball. Many individuals need to try this experiment, although it isn't

costly and extremely satisfying to try. For the particular details, students made sub points

to be understood easily by the observer, by the person or group who wants to try this

experiment, and by the researcher. The students will transform the aluminum foil into an

aluminum ball with an alternative point of view on materials because there are materials

that are simple to use to make and complete this examination. We used to follow some

simple cycles with the least amount of system over during the examination.

Keywords: aluminum, experiment, foil, surface, variable

III. Introduction A. Inquiry Question

1. What are the properties of

Making polished aluminum foil
aluminum, or the
balls has lately become a popular online
properties of aluminum
pastime, with many people attempting it
foil?
and sharing their results. Rather, it
2. How come the aluminum
entails transforming a common
foil balls transform into a
household commodity's crumpled ball of
smooth ball?
aluminum foil into a wonderfully smooth
3. How does the foil turn
and beautifully polished sphere. They
into a sphere-mirror?
started with an aluminum foil ball and

hammered it until it was extremely B. Variables to be measured

compacted and significantly smaller. and related
Then, under running water, he sanded it
The variables that need to be
repeatedly with what must have been a
measured are the aluminum. measured in
variety of sandpaper, smoothing but also
terms of how much time it takes until it
speckled and rusting the sphere. More
becomes a round shape, hammering and
sanding and polishing were used to apply
compressing it until it turns into a ball.
this reflecting surface coating to the
And the time until the surface becomes
surface, and the end result was incredibly
smoother.
polished and glossy.
 C. Variables to be Determined IV. Process

Independent Variable: A. Tools and their availability

 Aluminum foil – major

 Aluminum foil
material

 Hammer – to shape the

Dependent Variables: crumpled aluminum foil

into a sphere.
 Hammer force applied
 Sandpaper – to smoothen
when compressing the foil
the aluminum ball's
 Sandpapers friction
surface.
applied to the surface of
 Water – to wash away grit
the aluminum ball
particles.
Constant Variables:

B. Procedure
 Washing the aluminum

foil ball Before you start the experiment,

you need to prepare the following:

D. Hypothesis Aluminum Foil, Aluminum Roll or

Hammer, Sandpaper, Tissue, or Used

The expected outcome of the
Cloth for the first step, you need to cut
product will be carried out by
aluminum foil. The second is to crumple
using the appropriate and correct
the aluminum foil and make a round
material in the experiment.
shape. Third, you will need to compress D. General observations

the aluminum ball by hammering it with

This experiment with aluminum
an aluminum roll or a hammer. If the
balls makes us consider how we can reuse
aluminum ball gets smaller and you want
the foil and why we should not throw
to add aluminum, you can add it, then
away extra or used aluminum foil. The
repeat the third step. After crumpling,
experiment will use a lot of time and test
shaping, and compressing the aluminum
your patience, but the outcome is
ball, you can start making the surface of
satisfying, and you will gain a lot of new
the aluminum ball smoother using the
knowledge about how it became a ball
sandpaper. Because there is excess and
from scratch.
dirt, you can now wipe it with a tissue or

used cloth.

C. Values of the identified V. Conclusions

variables
A. The answer to the inquiry

The significance of identifying the question with cited evidence

variable is to ensure that you will

1. Some properties of aluminum
complete the task by making it
foil are its non-toxicity, low
appropriate and having resources on
weight, recyclability, excellent
hand to make it close to your
corrosion resistance,
expectations. This experiment will greatly
formability, non-returning
test your patience.
dead-fold, strength and
 durability, ductility, want your aluminum ball to

decorative potential, brilliant look shinier.

or matte surface, and many

B. The involvement of the
more.
hypothesis in determining the
2. The effect of hammering the
answer to the inquiry question
aluminum ball and rubbing it

on the sandpaper causes it to With the appropriate plan to

smoothen the ball, and create the expected result, you might

finishing the product by transform the aluminum foil into a

polishing it using the smooth aluminum foil ball. To decide the

aluminum polish (optional) response to the inquiry, I decided to use

makes the product shiny, but the primary materials to make this

sadly, the aluminum polish is experiment user-friendly.

not available.
C. Identifying the correlation of
3. The hammer compresses the
the identified variables and
aluminum foil until it takes on
constants
the shape of a sphere, and the

mirror is made by rubbing it The independent variable, the

with sandpaper until the aluminum foil, with the help of the

aluminum ball smooths out, dependent variable, will carry through the

followed by polishing, but result. By doing the best with the

polishing is optional if you

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to make the surface smooth,

Weisberger, M. (2018). How the Heck

VI. References
(May, 2002) Aluminum Attributes and
Properties of Aluminum Foil
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https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?Art
icleID=1435
Was a Foil Ball Transformed into This
Smooth, Shiny Sphere?
Retrieved from:
https://www.livescience.com/62388-
foil-ball-challenge.html

Vitt Maker (2019). How to Make a

Polished Aluminum Foil Ball?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K