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Name: Elizabeth Roberto   Experiment date: October 3, 2011
        Report Due: October 24, 2011

Title:
Using Density to Find the Amount of Sugar in a Carbonated Beverage

Abstract:
In the lab “Using Density to Find the Amount of Sugar in a Carbonated Beverage” the purpose was to determine the percent of sugar in a carbonated beverage using density. The percent of sugar in a carbonated beverage was determined by creating a standard curve. There were five sugar solutions prepared by using zero to five sugar cubes in each solution. The mass of the sugar cubes and sugar solutions were determined by using mass and volume. On a scatter plot the percent sugar and density for each solution was calculated and plotted. The density was determined by subtracting the mass of the carbonated soda and graduated cylinder by the mass of the empty graduated cylinder. It was determined that the accepted value of percent sugar in a carbonated soda is 13.19%.

Introduction:
The purpose of this lab was to determine how much sugar is in a carbonated beverage using density. Some real world uses that people determine the amount of sugar in a product is when someone has diabetes. With diabetes people need to watch their sugar in take because their body either does not produce insulin, which moves glucose through the bloodstream to create fuel, or the body does not respond to the insulin. This causes either diabetes type 1, 2, or 3. Type one is when the body creates little or no insulin so they need daily intakes of insulin. Type two is when the person is obese and they do not normally know that they have a form of diabetes. Next, type three is gestational diabetes which occurs most often in pregnant women (source #1). When calculating the percent sugar in a beverage you take the number of grams of sugar in the product and divide it by the total weight in grams (source #3).
A standard curve is used to determine the concentration of a target substance in a...