Results..

The end result of the experiment was a success. The Kool-Aid mixture was separated into powder and water. The powder was purple and smelled like a grape sort of flavoring. The water also had a grape smell, but was left colorless.

Lab Proceduree

OBJECTIVE:

- distill grape kool aid into sugar and water

MATERIALS:

-Beaker

-Bunsen burner and hose

-1/4 cup of grape Kool-Aid mix

-erlenmeyer flask

-glass tubing

-ring stand

-rubber stopper

-rubber/plastic tubing

-striker

-1 quart of water

-wire guaze

Procedure:

1. Build still

-Take out your ringstand and set it up, placing wire guaze over the iron ring connected to the stand. Then, place an erlenmeyer flask on the wire guaze. Insert the glass tubing into the erlenmeyer flask through the rubber stopper (that will eventually be put on top of the flask). Then insert rubber/or plastic tubing onto the top of the glass tubing and then into the beaker, which will be laying on the table away from the ringstand. Set up your bunsen burner (connecting it to the gas, but don't turn gas on yet) and place it undre the iron ring on the base of the ring stand.

2. Mixing the Kool-Aid

-With a measuring cup, measure out 1/4 cup of grape Kool-Aid mix and pour into a container big enough to hold more than a quart of liquid. Then, pour about 1 quart of water into the container that has the Kool-Aid mix in it. Stir until the powder mix is dissolved into the water.

3. Distilation

-Pour the grape Kool-Aid into the erlenmeyer flask filling it 3/4 of the way and place the rubber stopper onto the top of the erlenmeyer flask, sealing it tight. Put the flask back on top of the wire gauze on the ringstand.

-Turn on the gas and take the bunsen burner out from on top of the base of the ring
stand. Adjust the bunsen burner til its right and then use the striker to light the bunsen burner. Place the lit bunsen burner on top of the base stand once again under the iron ring and wire gauze.

-Allow the grape Kool-Aid to boil, eventually causing the water to turn into vapors which will consense and morve through the tubing and eventually regain its properties by turning back into water, which will now be in the beaker(distillate) leaving the Kool-Aid mix to still be in the erlenmeyer flask.

HYPOTHESIS-Distilling Grape Kool-Aid

If Grape Kool-Aid is distilled, then the distillation process will separate the mixture into sugar and water.