Stomach acid : Science project
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:40 am
Hello ScienceBuddies team,
I’m looking for help on a 6th grade science project.
My daughter plans to test the reaction of stomach acid on different foods and also determine if the food increases the acidity level or decrease.
After doing some research online, we purchased 0.1M HCl to perform this experiment. We have made sure to purchase all safety items like apron, goggles, mask and Certified experiment apparatus.
To test it out, we placed very small amounts of food in a small amount of acid. But there has not been much of a change.
Need help with below questions:
1. How do we acquire enzymes?
2. How to determine how much food vs hcl ratio should we use? Was trying to keep the quantities small as worried about using large amounts of hcl and the fumes it could generate.
3. Do we need to keep it warm? Again worried about the fumes.
4. Anything else we are possibly missing?
Thank you,
Aks
I’m looking for help on a 6th grade science project.
My daughter plans to test the reaction of stomach acid on different foods and also determine if the food increases the acidity level or decrease.
After doing some research online, we purchased 0.1M HCl to perform this experiment. We have made sure to purchase all safety items like apron, goggles, mask and Certified experiment apparatus.
To test it out, we placed very small amounts of food in a small amount of acid. But there has not been much of a change.
Need help with below questions:
1. How do we acquire enzymes?
2. How to determine how much food vs hcl ratio should we use? Was trying to keep the quantities small as worried about using large amounts of hcl and the fumes it could generate.
3. Do we need to keep it warm? Again worried about the fumes.
4. Anything else we are possibly missing?
Thank you,
Aks