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CREST award: treatments for dehydration
In this project, students find out about the causes and consequences of dehydration. They will experiments to investigate the constituents of commercially available oral rehydration salts (ORS), a common treatment for dehydration.
Most re-hydration salts contain glucose and sodium chloride. Students can use Benedict's test to check for glucose. They could also use a battery and ammeter to check the electrical conductivity of the samples and compare this to the conductivity of distilled water or standard salt solutions.
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