Slime Time Lab Report

Slime Time Chemistry and biology often overlap in their content or their umbrellas of areas of study and information. It is impossible to fully understand biology without fully understanding chemistry and vise versa or at least knowing some things about the other. One lab that is offered by Hennepin Technical College of Minnesota in the class, Biology in Society, is called Chemical Bonding Fundamentals: Lab 3. The lab focuses on the understanding of polarity as well as identifying if certain inks and solvents are polar or non-polar. The experiment is called Slime Time and it consists of three parts; making the slime, slime and putty ink tests, and chromatography of ink samples. The lab also ends with post-lab questions, which is an overview of the lab that focuses on key points to take away from the lesson/experiment.

Next I measured 50 milliliters of distilled water into a graduated cylinder and poured it into the beaker filled with the guar gum. I mixed it together until the guar gum was dissolved in the water. Then I measured four milliliters of 4% Borax solution into a graduated cylinder and added it to the mixture. I then stirred it until it became slime. Finally, I poured it into my hands to feel its consistency and viscosity. It was very slippery and gross when I was feeling it. It’s important to try and not drop the slippery slime because it can make one’s work area or the floor very slick and dangerous, like a fall-risk. The final step I had to do was document the observations I observed during the eight-step experiment. It is also important to write down everything about slime, like how it is poured, is it thick or thin? And other questions similar to