Materials and Methods

Materials:

Mortar and pestle

1/2 cup measuring cup

500 g Life cereal

500 g Cheerios

500 g Lucky Charms

Magnetic Stirrer

300 mL beaker

Tweezers

6 L Water

15 Filters

Triple Beam Balance

Procedure

1.       Fill mortar with 100 g of cereal.

2.       Using the pestle, thoroughly crush the cereal.

3.       Add .5 L of water to the cereal.

4.       Stir cereal with magnetic stirrer for 5 minutes.

5.       Remove the magnet from the cup.

6.       Rinse magnet with water.

7.       Wipe magnet with a filter.

8.       Let filter dry.

9.       Find the mass of the dry filter.

10.      Subtract mass of used filter from clean filter mass.

11.      Repeat steps 1-10 five times.

12.      Repeat steps 1-8 for each of the two remaining cereals.

Procedure

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