Science question

[WebbPA]

I'm sure any schoolboy can answer this but I'm not a schoolboy and I forgot all that stuff long ago.

I have a 16 ounce bottle that I want to fill with 15 ounces of water, 1/2 cup of sugar, 3/4 teaspoon of potassium chloride (powder) and 1 package of Kool-Aid (a tablespoon at the most).  Don't worry, it isn't poison.  It's Gatorade concentrate.

Will the 15 ounces of water and the 1/2 cup of sugar fit in the 16 ounce container?  The other ingredients are of negligible volume.

Or, maybe, in other words, will the 1/2 cup of sugar, after dissolution, increase the volume of the water by 1/2 cup or not?

[Brett_Henderson]

I'm going to guess that the increased volume will not be nearly 1/2 cup..  along the same lines as disolving salt in water just makes it more dense.

[WebbPA]

It was faster to figure it out by trial and error.

1/2 cup of sugar dissolved increased the liquid volume by 2 ounces.

[WebbPA]

If you are wondering why I wanted this information it is because I want to carry concentrated homemade gatorade on the golf course.

Combine 1 part of this concentrate with 3 parts of water (freely available on the course - unless you're in like Scotland or something where they will invariably charge you for every drop) and you can carry 60 oz of gatorade in a "standard" 16 oz water bottle.

Potassium chloride is available in any grocery store as "Morton Lite Salt".

For the undiluted recipe add the dry ingredients to a 2 quart container. Fill with water and chill.

Please send me 10% of whatever money you save not buying commercial Gatorade.

[packercolinl]

GOD!! You had me worried!!

I thought you were making A BOMB!!

Why would you want to bomb a golf course?









Oh!!

Yeah!

Ok,I see why.

[WebbPA]

After some research it turns out that Morton Lite Salt is 1/2 NaCl (table salt) and 1/2 KCl.

"Potassium chloride is used as the third of a three -drug combination in lethal injection. Additionally, KCl is used (albeit rarely) in fetal intracardiac injections in second- and third-trimester induced abortions."

I'm pretty sure it's relatively harmless to ingest in small amounts.

[Al_Fallujah]

GOD!! You had me worried!!

I thought you were making A BOMB!!

Why would you want to bomb a golf course?

Keeps missing the hole... wanted to make it bigger.

[Al_Fallujah]

After some research it turns out that Morton Lite Salt is 1/2 NaCl (table salt) and 1/2 KCl.

"Potassium chloride is used as the third of a three -drug combination in lethal injection. Additionally, KCl is used (albeit rarely) in fetal intracardiac injections in second- and third-trimester induced abortions."

I'm pretty sure it's relatively harmless to ingest in small amounts.

Potassium is a needed mineral to humans. It can be given intravenously, or orally in the form of potassium chloride. An over dose of any needed minerals can cause ill effects, up to and including death.

"Too much of a good thing" and all that...

[patchz]

[color=#000000]Why not just mix up a gallon in a jug and then fill your bottle each time you head for the course?

[Anxyous]

After some research it turns out that Morton Lite Salt is 1/2 NaCl (table salt) and 1/2 KCl.

"Potassium chloride is used as the third of a three -drug combination in lethal injection. Additionally, KCl is used (albeit rarely) in fetal intracardiac injections in second- and third-trimester induced abortions."

I'm pretty sure it's relatively harmless to ingest in small amounts.

Read about KCl coupled with NaCl, when I was studying for my physics exam. It had something to do with radioactivity or healthiness... Or it was cost-effective... I've forgotten

[ozzy72]

Why would you want to bomb a golf course?

Why wouldn't you? Have you never seen Caddy Shack?

[Anxyous]

I was just thinking, two ounces sounds like a lot. What's the volume of half a cup?

[WebbPA]

One half cup is 4 ounces volume.

[Anxyous]

One half cup is 4 ounces volume.

Ah, I see... You could always get some artificial sweetener. You'ed only need 1/100 of an ounce or something of aspartam.