I hope everyone's week has been busy and great! I came back to most of the micro plastics I extracted from the DI water to being completely dried out. I weighed each cup and wrote down my data. Once I did that, I had already poured some DI from last week so that way I can continue to extract the micro plastics. I redid the process again but this time adding less DI water to each cup so that way the dehydration process wouldn't take as long as it did the last time. I extracted most of the micro plastics as I possibly could but there still remained some micro plastics in the sediment. :( I created a new set of rows of weighed out sediment so I can start extracting a new set of micro plastics using a Sodium Chloride solvent.
From my observations, I feel like DI water did a solid job with seperating the micro plastics from the sediment. That could be because of the density of DI water.
Next week I will reweigh the micro plastics once it has finished dehydrating. I will continue with extracting micro plastics from sediment using Sodium Chloride.
