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Iodine solution Corn starch 2 250mg Vitamin C tablets or 1 500mg Vitamin C tablet Fruit Juices (apple, lemon, and orange juice) Big Glass jar 500 ml measuring cup 20 ml measuring cup Eye dropper Two glasses
Steps:
1.Take a big glass jar and fill it up with 500 ml of water. 2.Crush one (500mg) or two (250 mg) tablet of vitamin C and put it in the jar, stir it well, until vitamin C tablet dissolves. 3.This way you'll get 1 mg/ml solution of vitamin C. 4.Measure 20 ml of that solution, bring it to another glass and add about half glass of water. This glass will contain 20 mg of vitamin C. 5. Now prepare starch solution. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of starch in small amount of cold water (1-2 tablespoons) and bring it into a half glass of boiling-hot water. Stir it well, until starch dissolves and let it cool. Take 4 drops of starch solution and add to the glass with 20 mg of Vitamin C. 6. Now, drop by drop, start adding in the iodine. As you add in the drops, stir them as well. Keep adding the iodine drop by drop until the the solution turns a stable,deep blue or black color. This will indicate the end of reaction. Make sure to remember how many drops of iodine it took to end the reaction. 7. Now, take 20 ml of juice, and add 1 teaspoon of the starch solution just like we did when we were preparing the Vitamin C solution. Make sure to stir it well until it dissolves. 8. Using the same dropper and iodine solution, start adding the iodine drop-by-drop. Stop when you see a good amount of black particles in the solution. Remember how many drops of iodine it took to end the reaction. 9. To find out how much mg/ml of Vitamin C there is in the juice, divide the number of * Store-Bought 100% Fruit Juice
drops of iodine needed to react with the juice by the number of drops needed to react with the Vitamin C solution. This formula will tell us how many mg per ml there will be in the juice. Vitamin C in juice(mg/ml)=Number of drops of Iodine used in juice/Number of drops of Iodine used in Vitamin C solution 10. Do steps 7-9 with all of the juices (orange,lemon,apple). 11. Repeat experiment as many times as possible.\ 12. Record data.
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