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The Effect of Bleach on Mold Growth



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School Name: Sherwood Heights School
Team Size: 1
Grade Category: 4-6
ProjectType: Experimental
Subject Area: Biology
Language: English
Team Captain First Name: Max
Team Captain Last Name: Mastalerz
Project Title: Effect of Bleach on Mold
Awards:Honourable Mention for my school Science Fair Project
Hardware tools used:camera
Source of the idea:Internet
Special skills used to build the project:(html)
Project Abstract: In this experiment I wanted to show how much bleach is needed to kill mold. I was suprised to see that bleach is so strong and it stops the mold growth even at concentrations less than 5%.I used bread to grow mold in petri dishes with agar and treated the bread pieces with different concentrations of bleach every other day.To make the experiment work, I chose to use agar because it is a good base to grow small organisims such as bacteria and mold. The concentrations of bleach I used were 0, 1, 2, 5, 10,and 20%. I had two sets of petri dishes for each concentration to make sure the experiment worked. In the end mold grew only at 0% bleach and some grew on 1 and 2%this experiment shows how bleach can be harmful to the enviornment.
www.virtualsciencefair.org/2008/mast8m2