Mass Lab Stations: Station 2

I chose station 2 to do my blog on. This is the experiment where you took a chunk of ice and measured its mass, then after it melted you measured again to see if there was any change in mass.

My claim for the experiment at station 2 is that when ice changes form from ice to water the mass will not change.

In our system we used a small 100mL. beaker and a small chunk of ice. We first zeroed out the scale with the beaker on it so that we would only get the mass of the ice that we placed into the beaker. Our measurement was 34.79g. before the ice melted. We then took the beaker with the ice in it and set it in our hand to get the ice to melt faster. Once we were positive that all the ice had melted into water we placed the beaker with the now melted ice back on the scale to measure its mass again. The measurement was again 34.79g.

We all agreed, in class, that water and ice have the same particles no matter what form they're in. weather it's water or ice it is still the same substance. So we decided that if ice melts there is still going to be the same amount of water as there was ice, it is just simply in a different form.