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possible. Use a q-tip to lightly smear the specimen side of each slide. You will need to
prepare 2 slides per group and place them in a slide container to avoid smearing the
petroleum jelly on anyone.
3. Each group will place one labeled slide on the exterior of the school. Some groups
should choose areas that would receive few particulates, others should choose locations
that produce more particulates. (Keep in mind sources of particulate matter)
4. One member from each group should take the second slide and place it in a location
inside the school.
5. You should then place your ozone monitoring strip outside for 8 hrs. Before placing
the strip outside, dip the strip in distilled water, then attach the strip out of sunlight.
When placing your strip find the relative humidity for that day.
6. The next day, each group should collect their slide and ozone monitoring strip.
6. Dunk each strip into distilled water. Use the chart at the right to determine the
Schoenbein Number of your strip
7. Use the relative humidity and the Schoenbein number to calculate the concentration
of ground level ozone using the chart below.
8. Look at your particulate matter slide under the microscope. First decide the amount
of particulates and then attempt to estimate the source of the PM. Your group will need
to decide how you can classify what type of PM was collected.
Data:
Inside Particle
Matter
Inside Ozone
Outside particle
matter
Outside Ozone
Light
Light
Light
9.5
Light
10
Light
10
Data Analysis: We discovered that the outside ozone to be 9.5 and the inside ozone to
be 0. The measured outside particle matter was very small and there was none inside.
Because of this, we know that there is a lot of ozone in our air outside that we breathe.
This can be very harmful if the levels continue to rise. As you can see above, the strip
from outside turned a darker purple color which indicates high ozone levels. We found
that the air inside of our school has no ozone and it is very healthy and clean. However,
the amount of particle matter we found outside is very small. This means that it is not
dangerous in that case. The class data shows that the amount of ozone outside was
high. The ozone inside was pretty low in the class data. The data was pretty consistent
although the outside papers could have differed because of their location and direct
sunlight use.
Conclusion: The evidence of the lab supported my hypothesis of ozone level, because
there is higher ozone levels outside then inside. Everyone in the class seemed have
relatively similar data. We all could have made many mistakes. We were mistaken and
did not ever take note of the humidity levels. To make this lab more accurate, we could
of just focused on one lab at a time, whether it be PM or ozone. This lab has helped me
understand the difference between the harmful troposphere ozone and good stratosphere
ozone layers. It has also taught me that particulate matter does participate in the
pollution and depletion of ozone. Even though the Clean Air Act is a great idea and
regulation we have in place, we must enforce it upon every country (mainly third world
countries) to develop a healthy, clean outcome for the world.
Citations:
Union of Concerned Scientists, . N.p.. Web. 20 Sep 2013.
<http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/big_picture_solutions/the-clean-air-act.html>.