Camping Hiking Equipment

By admin, December 19, 2009 11:27 am

Chem lab help!!! please?

A water disinfectant that uses iodine can be purchased at most stores that sell camping and hiking equipment.

A water disinfectant that uses iodine can be purchased at most stores that sell camping and hiking equipment.

How would you test if this product really disinfects drinking water. What experiment would you do?

Following the directions on the product label, I would add the amount of iodine product to the amount of water. Separately, I would prepare a Petri dish with agar. I would streak the surface of the agar with some of the treated water, cover the dish, and let it stand a few days. If it grows colonies of bacteria, it didn’t work.

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