Mystery Cup Procedure

Procedure:

1. First take the filter paper and put it around the circumference of the funnel that was given. This will drain the water from all the objects mixed in the cup and separate from them.
2. Then take out the obvious objects like the toothpicks, flat marble, as well as the beans.
3. Next put the blue provided magnet into the plastic cup, now only containing a black subject and sand. When the magnet is placed in the cup… the black subject will attach to it.
4. Then figure out what the black subject is.
5. Next pour all the water from the graduated cylinder that was recently separated and move it into the graduated beaker.
6. Remove 75% of the water from the beaker and place it into the Erlenmeyer flask.
7. Then move the flask to the hot plate. Turn the dial to a medium heat setting.
8. Watch as the water evaporates and take the beaker off when no water is left in the beaker leaving only a mysterious substance.
9. Take some of the disfigured substance out… figure out what it is then write a list of what was found.