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.
You seem like you’re working so hard. I can’t wait to see your presentation at MetroTech. Yours was one of the projects that I was really excited about this semester. I’ve decided to major in Environmental Science and water management. Do you think that you’ll go to more conferences next year?
ReplyDeleteHello Francisco,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool project, and I have enjoyed going back through your work and seeing your process - what you have learned, the difficulties you have faced and your triumphs. I am interested to see how this project finishes out and what your final work looks like. I also am thinking about how you could possible scale this up and apply it! Have you been thinking along those same lines?