Bubble Gum Lab

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First Lab Report on The Ability of Bubble Gum to be Stretched After Being Chewed on Two-Hundred Times Introduction: How far can a certain piece of bubblegum be stretched after being chewed two-hundred times? From five brands of bubblegum, which is the most flexible after being chewed? The reason of this experiment was to test which ingredients inside the gum most affected the flexibility of the gum and which brand of gum could be stretched the farthest of the six brands chosen. Gum is not stretchy until it has been chewed. The gum is malleable because of two distinct reasons. The first is because the gum was chewed. The teeth push saliva into the makeup of the gum. This is one of the reasons the gum becomes pliable after chewing. While going through the process of chewing, the gums molecular structure changes. The molecules that were pushed and held tightly together became more loss, and the molecules started to be able to slide past each other. The second reason is because of the types of ingredients inside the gum and the amount of ingredients. The gum-base itself is made up the ingredients that make the gum flexible. A gum base is a non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble compound that is found in all types of chewing gum. Gum bases are usually made from organic ingredients like chicle, spruce, mastic, paraffin wax and beeswax. These natural materials can be flavoured to make the gum taste better and coloured to look more appealing. The elasticity of gum comes from tasteless synthetic materials that are put inside the gum base. Most bouncy and flexible materials have a surplus of elastomers. Gum is full of ingredients that are elastomers (like artificial rubber or natural latex) and therefore is very stretchy. The organic ingredients in gum (like wax and resins) keep the gum soft and make sure the body of the gum doesn’t dissolve as it is chewed. These

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