And the lucky number is.... 15!

In this weeks lab time with the team, the main goal was to try to weigh out 15 mg of each microplastic into four different glass tubes. It may look easier than it looks but it did take a lot of weighing that included taking away and adding plastics which was a struggle at first. We did take a while at first because our first protocol was to measure out the plastics inside the tube and then weighing it that way. This was taking way too long because we think that there might be some debris that went out of the tube. This may seem like such an easy task to do, but it took so long because there was no control and the balance was not cooperating either. We were there for a good hour trying to just weigh out the first plastic #3.  Then we decided to just tare out a weighing boat onto the balance and add the plastics that way. This was a lot more effective and it took less the time, we even managed to get on plastic to weigh exactly 15 mg, (shown in the picture above) which was awesome! It felt like we would finally get some good measurements for our experiment. After the plastics were weighed out, then they were transferred to the glass tubes we were initially using at first, and that concluded the first step of our week's experiment.