How can I prove which paper towels are the strongest?
Paper towels vary by brand, and for resistant to clean, you want the strongest paper towel you can find. It is easy to test the strength of paper towels using the scientific method and objects of everyday use. This experiment can be performed by anyone and makes a fun science project for high school children. To make it an official experiment, establish a hypothesis on which paper towel is the strongest. You can be surprised by the results.
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Instructions
1 gather a sample of each paper towel mark you want to test.
2 cut each paper towel into strips of equal size.
3 Stretch the first paper towel strip between two people so they each have one end of a strip.
4 use 4 teaspoons. of water to moisten the paper towel.
5 Place a penny on the top of the wet paper towel. Keep placing pennies on top, one by one, until you break paper towels.
6 record how many cents the paper towel was able to hold before it broke.
7 Repeat steps 3 through 5 with the remaining strips of paper towels. The paper towel that can hold the most penny coins is the strongest.
Tips and warnings
- You can use any kind of coin as long as they are all of the same type.