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    Joselyn Castillo conducted a science fair experiment to determine which common household cleaning product is most effective at cleaning old coins. She hypothesized that bleach would be the most effective cleaner. The experiment involved soaking old pennies in white vinegar, bleach, dish soap, and degreaser for 10 minutes. Joselyn found that white vinegar cleaned the pennies the best, making them shiny, while the other products had little effect. In her conclusion, Joselyn determined that white vinegar is most effective at cleaning coins due to its acetic acid content, and that expensive cleaning products are not always the most effective.

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    Joselyn Castillo conducted a science fair experiment to determine which common household cleaning product is most effective at cleaning old coins. She hypothesized that bleach would be the most effective cleaner. The experiment involved soaking old pennies in white vinegar, bleach, dish soap, and degreaser for 10 minutes. Joselyn found that white vinegar cleaned the pennies the best, making them shiny, while the other products had little effect. In her conclusion, Joselyn determined that white vinegar is most effective at cleaning coins due to its acetic acid content, and that expensive cleaning products are not always the most effective.

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    Joselyn Castillo conducted a science fair experiment to determine which common household cleaning product is most effective at cleaning old coins. She hypothesized that bleach would be the most effective cleaner. The experiment involved soaking old pennies in white vinegar, bleach, dish soap, and degreaser for 10 minutes. Joselyn found that white vinegar cleaned the pennies the best, making them shiny, while the other products had little effect. In her conclusion, Joselyn determined that white vinegar is most effective at cleaning coins due to its acetic acid content, and that expensive cleaning products are not always the most effective.

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    Science Fair

    Joselyn Castillo

    Edu 214

    July 7, 2022
    Problem/Question

    Which cleaning product is the most effective?


    Since we have been in quarantine for a week now, the only
    thing we have been doing as a family is cleaning the house. We
    have noticed that some cleaning products are more effective
    even though they are cheaper, which brought us to our
    question: Which one is the most effective? We usually buy the
    most expensive ones because if they are so expensive then
    they should be the most effective right? For this project, we
    tried different products to see which one can clean old coins.
    We tried different products with different prices, from
    expensive to the cheapest ones we had.
    Hypothesis
    Bleach has been a good cleaner for our
    house. It also kills germs and
    disinfects areas such as floors or
    countertops. My hypothesis is that
    between all the choices, bleach will
    clean the coins the best since it is a
    very effective cleaner and whitens
    almost anything.
    Materials

    For this experiment, we will be


    testing four different cleaning
    products: white vinegar, bleach, dish
    soap, and degreaser “Awesome”. We
    will also need old pennies or any
    other old coins that look very dirty.
    Procedure
    1) First, we placed some old pennies in four different
    surfaces. We made sure the pennies were old and
    dirty so that we could see which cleaner does the
    best job.
    2) Then we put each product in each plate. In one plate
    we put bleach, in another plate we put white vinegar,
    then in the next one we put dish soap and in the last
    one we used degreaser.
    3) In the third step, we waited for about 10 minutes so
    the coins could really soak up the products.
    4) After 10 minutes we went back to check the coins
    and we noticed that one of the pennies was shinier
    than the rest.
    Results/DATA
    We noticed that the dish soap did nothing to the penny.
    Even though this specific dish soap is very good for
    cleaning dishes, it is not good enough to clean old
    pennies. The penny in the bleach seemed like it got a
    little bit clean, but not so much. Even though bleach was
    our best guess that it would clean the best, it ended up
    not being strong enough to clean a penny. The degreaser
    did nothing to the penny, after the 10 minutes had
    passed the penny looked the same. This degreaser is very
    effective when cleaning my stove, so it was weird that it
    didn’t act as tough as it does with my stove. Finally, the
    white vinegar made the penny look shiny and clean. We
    used vinegar to clean some parts of my kitchen, including
    some old dishes, and even though it does the job with
    dishes I never thought it would be strong enough to clean
    an old penny.
    Conclusion
    In conclusion, white vinegar tends to clean
    pennies better because of its acetic acid. When I
    use it to clean my dirty pans, vinegar cleans them
    best because the pans are made of steel. This
    means that the acid in the vinegar works better
    with steel, copper, or other metals. While bleach
    tends to be very effective with white clothing,
    shoes, or even dishes, it is not effective with
    metals, therefore it did not work with pennies.
    Vinegar is also cheaper than bleach, so I conclude
    that expensive products do not always mean that
    they are the most effective.

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