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Join Date: May 2009 Location: London
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Alexander River Hirsch
Gryffindor Third Year
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Ministry RPG Name:
Zhuó Xiá Li
Ministry RPG Name:
Grayson Douglas Whitlock
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Now. Test 2.
With a smile on his face, Lucas went to the front and started gathering some of the other ingredients for the second test. First was the water, 20ml of it, in fact, which he veeeeeeeeeery carefully measured out. Why did it have to be 20ml? He didn't know. He almost wanted to ask but, uh, Noble was making his way back to the front already. And he was a little scary but he would never say that.
Next, the tongs, which were easier to pick up and keep hold of while he had a test tube of water in one hand. Sure, nothing would happen if he dropped the water - it was only water, after all - but smashing things, uh, didn't sound like a good idea. With that thought in mind, he walked back to his desk and placed the two objects down: the tongs on the desk and the test tube of water on the test tube rack.
Before he knew it, the Gryffindor was back at the front of the class again, this time, gathering some sugar, some sucrase and however much of the Benedict's solution he thought might be necessary. It was only when he was heading back to his desk that he caught sight of something that made him furrow his eyebrows in confusion. But then his dormmate was talking about searing his fingers, which caused him to...... blink.
He shuffled a little quicker back, only vaguely hearing Noble's question about pros and cons about the indicators. But his mind was entirely on the Gryffindor next to him so he turned to him and whispered, "Psst! Cole! Are you okay?" He said it didn't hurt, right? Right? This was fine?
When it came to Noble's question, he glanced down at the dropper of Benedict's solution in his hand and frowned slightly. Well, he...... hadn't started this yet so he couldn't comment on it, right? But the Litmus solution..... the Litmus solution....... "Uh, Professor Noble?" he started, his hand going up in the air, "See, with the Litmus solution, it only tells you if the, uh, substance, I guess, is an acid or an alkali. It doesn't tell you what the substance is." Pause. "I mean, it works for this because we know that we have baking soda here and lemon juice there but if we had an unknown substance, it wouldn't....... really tell you much. So I guess...... it can't be the only test that you do. You can use it but you'd need..... other indicators to find out what the unknown substance is." If that's what they were looking for.
Stop talking, Dakest.
A little red in the face, Lucas slowly lowered his hand and tried to distract himself with the test, instead, the next step of which was lighting a flame on the bunsen burner. A flame. Just like a cauldron. This was fine. He added half a teaspoon of sugar into the water and, picking the test tube up, stirred it gently to, uh, get the sugar to dissolve. Was this important? He didn't really know. But Noble wouldn't have mentioned it if it wasn't important for the sugar to be dissolved, right?
Right. Yeah. Okay.
Nodding to himself, he moved to add in the Benedict's solution and, using the tongs, held the test tube close to the flame. Don't drop it don't drop it don't drop it. Holding the tongs and the test tube with his right hand, he used his left hand to add in the drops of sucrase. Five, was it? Five drops. One, two, three, four, five! Done. He watched, in anticipation, as the colour slowly started changing to yellow and then, slowly, becoming more and more orange.
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