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June 8, 2007 Science 10 Experimental Project Kyle Chou

Turn Printed Paper Back to Blank Paper

Hypothesis: Soap mixed with boiled water has the best ability to erase

the printed words on the printed paper faster than normal water.

Background Research

To prove that “soap mixed with boiled water” is the liquid that can remove

the words on the paper printed by laser printers is the aim of this experiment.

Five different liquids are compared with “soap mixed with boiled water”:

normal water, water mixed with soap (normal temperature), water mixed with

orange juice, water mixed with alcohol, and water mixed with every material.

Laser printers print by cling toner to a light-sensitive print drum, then

using static electricity to transfer the toner to the printing medium to which it is

fused with heat and pressure.

A single piece of paper is made up typically by vegetable fibres

composed of cellulose, hold together by hydrogen bonding.

The reason of why “soap mixed with boiled water” will has the best ability

to erase the words on the printed paper is that soaps are mixtures of sodium

or potassium salts of fatty acids, and its molecules attach readily to both

nonpolar molecules (such as grease or oil on the substance) and polar

molecules (such as water), then move away from its substance.

Other liquids chemical properties are these:

 Water: 2 hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen


June 8, 2007 Science 10 Experimental Project Kyle Chou

atom.

 Orange: 11.3% of carbohydrate, 0.9% of protein, 0.2% of fat, 0.5% of

ash, and 97.1% of water.

 Ethanol alcohol: 2 carbon atoms and 5 hydrogen atoms covalently

bonded to a single hydroxide.

Materials

 6 500mL beakers contained with 500mL water

 6 pieces of printed paper from laser printer; size 10.5cm X 6.5cm

 1 1mL of orange juice

 2 packs of soap powder (4cm X 4cm X1cm)

 1 5mL of ethanol alcohol

 1 hot plate

 1 incubator

Procedure

1. Set up 6 beakers contained with different mixed liquids:

 Normal water, label as “N”

 Water mixed with soap, label as “S”

 Boiled Water mixed with soap, label as “BS”

 Water mixed with orange juice, label as “O”


June 8, 2007 Science 10 Experimental Project Kyle Chou

 Water mixed with alcohol, label as “A”

 Water mixed with everything, label as “ALL”

2. Put 6 pieces printed paper into different beakers, wait for 10 minutes and

observing what happened to the paper.

3. Take the samples out that were successfully removed words on the paper

from water.

4. For those samples that haven’t erased the word on it, wait for another 10

minutes.

5. For those samples that still not erase the words on it, wait for the last 10

minutes and take them out.

6. Use an incubator to dry paper, and try to use fingers to erase the words

on the failed samples.

Results

N S BS O A ALL

10 minutes X X X X X X

20 minutes X X X X X X

30 minutes X X X X X X

Finger erase X X X X X X

Conclusion

In this experiment, the process was according to the procedure step by

step, there were no problems had happened. However, none of those liquids

could erase the words on the printed paper.


June 8, 2007 Science 10 Experimental Project Kyle Chou

After set up the samples 10 minutes, there were nothing happened to the

papers in the liquids; after another 10 minutes, still nothing happened; another

10 minutes passed by, the words on the samples took out from the liquids still

haven’t been erased, the hypothesis was incorrect.

The words on the papers still not been removed after heated up by the

incubator, neither fingers cannot remove the words from it.

The reason of why this was not working probably it is because that while

laser printer prints, it stuck the toner on the paper tightly by high temperature

and high pressure so it can’t been removed by these normal liquids.

An additional research will be required; the research subjects would be

how the traditional printers print by using ink; the chemical properties of strong

erosion liquids; and the procedure of the similar experiment which has

successfully been done.

Bibliography

Webpage

Ethanol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol

Orange (fruit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28fruit%29

Soap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap

Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


June 8, 2007 Science 10 Experimental Project Kyle Chou

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water

Laser printer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_printer

Paper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper

Chemical Composition

 http://webmineral.com/help/Composition.shtml

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