Grammer / Chemistry Question

[UNLTuba]

I'm writing a chemistry lab report and I can't stand a couple of sentances I wrote, but I can't find another way to reword them to make 'em sound better without them having a different meaning that what I want. Here is the sentance that I have right now -

15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate was put into Test Tube 1.

I don't like the word "put" in that sentance, but I can't think of a better way to say it. The drops weren't really placed into the test tube. That just sounds silly. They were dropped into the test tube (that's how I know I added 15 of 'em), but it sounds weird to say that 15 drops were dropped... Any suggestions here? Thanks...

Oh - for those of you that are interested, the actual lab consisted of determining the cations present in an unknown solution.

- Eric

 

[amnesiac]

What does it matter? It's a chem class, not an AP English exam.

The day your science teacher starts correcting your grammar is the day that...well...I don't really know if that would be a good thing or bad thing...

 

[AndyHui]

15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate were measured into Test Tube 1

 

[Antisocial Virge]

15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate were pipetted by mouth into Test Tube 1

 

[UNLTuba]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate were pipetted by mouth into Test Tube 1

Yeah! Then, I could say in my conclusion that doing so was probably a bad idea because my mouth ended up being black for weeks... or... not...

 

[Rakkis]

aliquoted
poured
dripped


and it's WERE instead of was - "15 drops" = plural

 

[GroundZero]

15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate was put into Test Tube 1.

change it to
15 drops of 0.2M silver nitrate were introduced to Test Tube 1.

 

[Semidevil]

you can say "blah blah blah was DISPENSED into Test tube 1..........."

 

[AlienCraft]

15 drops of .02M silver nitrate were added to test tube 1.
You said it yourself in your explanation.

 

[Krk3561]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
15 drops of .02M silver nitrate were added to test tube 1.
You said it yourself in your explanation.

What I was thinking