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Grammer / Chemistry Question

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UNLTuba

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

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.


 
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