Monday 30 January 2012

How Much Oxygen is in Air?

As part of our Human Body topic and, in particular, our unit on breathing, we did an experiment where a jar was put over a lit candle. After a few seconds the candle went out as it had used up all the oxygen. It had sucked up water from the dish to replace the oxygen. The jar was one fifth full of water which shows the 20% of the air is oxygen.

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  1. lee had great delight in showing me this experiment at home and explaining it too.

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