Mixture Experiment

On Friday i did a mixture lab. This is how you separate a mixture.

1. Take out the plastic fly with the spoon.
2. Filter the water through the filter paper and put it in the big beaker. Put it on the bunson burner.
3. Now, spoon out all of the lima beans with the plastic spoon and put them on the tray.
4. Next, spoon out the toothpicks and put them on the tray.
5. Put the magnet in the cup with the sand in it and get all the magnets out!
6. Take the water off the bunson burner (hopefully it will be evaporated) and what is left is salt.

The 7 items are- lima beans, toothpicks, a plastic fly, water, sand, magnets, and salt!

Extra Credit

Over the break i read the book "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. This book coincidentally has a lot to do with science. It is about a fierce conflict between science and religion. This book starts out stating a fact that a Swiss lab actually discovered a material called antimatter. Antimatter, as they explain later, is the exact opposite of matter, and when in contact with matter, destroys itself and the matter around it. I could not believe that such a material exists! The setting at the beginning is at the largest science lab in the world, called CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, which i researched and found that it is an actual place in real life. It is a lab for nuclear research, and in the book the characters use a few of the labs technology such as the Large Hadron Collider (which is the largest machine in the world), a reverse polarity vacuum, and a Boeing X-33. The second main character, Vittoria,  has a connection to science by being a Bio Entanglement Physicist, which means she studies how life systems interconnect, (especially aquatic species) and uses her knowledge in topics close to her work to help her throughout the book. In this book, characters are debating whether science or religion is correct, and if they can exist together. After reading the book I think that both religion and science exist in this world. Those are my thoughts on the book and how "Angels and Demons" connects to science.