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OPINION

I think my project was fun and it was interesting to learn that the gum base was made of plastics and rubbers. I think my project could have been improved if I used some thing other than soda to try and dissolve the gum. If you are thinking of doing this project I suggest that you use some thing other than soda such as gasoline, dry ice in watter (hot), etc.
If I were to do my project again I would try to melt the gum instead of try to dissolve it.

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CONCLUSION
my experiment resulted very different from my hypothesis I thought that Pepsi would dissolve the gum the fastest due to the acids in the bottle. As it turned out the only thing the soda dissolved was the hard shell, the reason being the gum base is made of plastics and rubbers there for a hard substance to dissolve and the acids in sodas are weak dissolving acids so that they do not dissolve or damage your digestive system.

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DATA
   after waiting on my experiment for three weeks  nothing came of it besides the gums hard shell nothing dissolved so I went on line and found that none of the acids in the sodas I used would dissolve the plastics and rubbers the gum base is made of.

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   PROCEDURE
        1. fill four Gerber cups  with a different kind of soda
        2. place piece of Eclipse gum
        3. label Gerber cups
        4. check back and record data

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MATERIALS USED
    
           1 BOTTLE PEPSI
           1 BOTTLE SUNKIST
           1 BOTTLE 7UP
           1 BOTTLE MTN DEW
           1 PACK ECLIPSE GUM
           4 EMPTY GERBER PLASTIC CUPS
           5 TABLE SPOONS PER SODA USED

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HYPOTHESIS
What I found is that the gum base is made up of plastics and rubbers! then looking at the ingredients for acids this is what I found

PEPSI       SUNKIST      7UP       MTN DEW
Phosphoric        citric and         citric acid       citric acid
and citric acid  ascorbic acid
                        (ascorbic acid was
                         only used to keep
                         flavor


Using this data I predict that Pepsi will be the soda able to disolve the gum fastest because it has the most acid that is not used to only preserve.         

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BACKGROUND
               INFORMATION
I thought it would be fun to test what soda dissolves gum fastest for my project because my mom and I always chew gum.I wondered if a liquid can completely dissolve gum.I decided that I should use soda being it would most likely be able to dissolve the gum.I chose four sodas Pepsi, Sunkist, 7up, and Mtn Dew and got a pack of eclipse gum for my experiment.To form my hypothesis I had to find what the gum base was made of and what acid dissolves it then I would look at the ingredients on the soda bottle.

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QUESTION
 Which soda Pepsi, Sunkist, 7up, or Mtn Dew dissolves eclipse gum in the least amount of time.