Burn The Fastest Lab Report

Abstract: WhatWhat flammable chemical would burn longer if soaked in a cotton ball?
If someone were to be using any of the following chemicals, Rubbing Alcohol or Biodiesel. That person would need to know how flammable the chemicals are when being used
In the experiment’s variables are independent variables which one is the type of liquid, the dependent variable is the burn time.
The prediction of the experiment is that the biodiesel will burn the longest.
The biodiesel did burn the longest by an average of fourteen minutes.
If something were to be done differently, more chemicals would have been chosen such as bleach or gasoline.
Some possible errors that could have occurred would be the weight check.
Background information:
In this experiment

Different types of the chemicals when soaked in a flammable object add onto the burn time depending on how flammable the chemicals are.
In this experiment the achievement that was hoped to be achieved was that the thought process of the biodiesel would be the chemical that burns the longest.
The difference between flammable and combustible is that flammable can burn when ignited but combustible is where more process and effort is needed to ignite.
Some things necessary for fire to happen is oxygen,heat, and fuel. Using these three things fire can be created.
The different ratings for flammable and combustibility is that the flammable liquids that have a flash point of less that 100 degrees. And Combustible liquids that have a flash point of at 100 degrees or higher.
At least 160,000 home fires are caused by flammable liquids and/or combustible liquids.
To put out chemical fires, fire extinguishers are needed.
Procedure:
The purpose of this experiment is to see which specific types of flammable liquid burns longer when contacted with

The biodiesel was thought to have burnt the longest. That hypothesis was correct. In the experiment after timing the burn time individually for each cotton ball the biodiesel did burn the longest.
For future studies, what was learned during this project was certain chemicals may be highly flammable but some other chemicals may burn longer than others and the person using the chemicals would need to be careful when using flame or heat near the chemicals.

Conclusion:
When the experiment was thought out the initial thought was that Biodeasel would burn the longest out of the other chemicals. After conducting the experiment the hypothesis was indeed correct. The reason this might have happened was that Biodiesel isn’t a complete chemical based product. It is a vegetable oil based chemical.
Works Cited & Proper APA Citation: https://extension.psu.edu/whats-so-different-about-biodiesel-fuel https://www.ehs.iastate.edu/services/fire/flammables-combustibles