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Alex Garcia

· I am working with Samantha. · We are testing Chips. Background: Fats are oils, lips, etc. Fats are known as common fats, saturated fats are found in animals. Unsaturated fat is good and can be found in plants. Purpose: We are doing this experiment to check if the chips have fats in them. We would check to weigh the food to see how much fat does it have. Also to check if it saturated or unsaturated fat.

Materials: Acetone, Beaker, Cheese Doodle, Petri Dish, Graduated Cylinder.

Procedure:
 * 1) Weigh an empty beaker, after add 5g of food.
 * 2) Record weight of beaker with food.
 * 3) Add 10ml of acetone to the food beaker.
 * 4) Stir for 1 minute, then let it settle for 1 minute
 * 5) Pour acetone on petri dish, making food stay in the beaker.
 * 6) Add 10ml of acetone and repeat step 4 and 5.
 * 7) Place Petri dish with acetone and beaker with food.
 * 8) Allow to dry overnight.
 * 9) Weigh beaker with food.
 * 10) Clean beaker and food.
 * 11) Calculate weight difference.
 * 12) Observe and record

Conclusion: This experiment was about checking if cheese doodles had fat and how much fat would it have. We could not find this out because we forgot to check the weight the beaker before adding the acetone. But after the weight was 168.3g.