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Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Making and Knowing Lab (Chandler 260)
Subject: Materials for today's experiment:
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Today's goal: try different amounts/recipes for "wine" and decide which to ultimately use/ get a feel for the materials. [not changing to white wine today]
Today's questions:
Experiments:
SB: 0.04 g of Sappanwood and 50 g of water
SK: 1.67 g of Sappanwood and 50 g of water
LB: 0.04 g of Logwood and 50 g of water
LK: 1.67 g of Logwood and 50 g of water
[SB/LB refer to the ratio taken from Sleight of Hand Tricks by Ann-Sophie Barwich and SK/LK refer to the ratio taken from Jo Kirby, Natural Colorants for Dyeing and Lake Pigments]
Beginning at 3:05 pm:
Taking water, and pouring 50 g (50 ml on the beaker) into each of my four pre-labeled 4 oz plastic containers
Starting with the sappanwood: measured out approx 1.6 g for SB and 0.05 g for SK.
Next I moved on to the logwood. I measured out approx 1.6 g for LB and transferred the dyestuff into a mortar and pestle. After trying to crush it for about 20 minutes, and with little change in the logwood, I moved the dyestuff to a larger mortar and pestle with a different grit. I then crushed it for about 2 hours, ending with a fine powder. In order to remove the logwood powder from the mortar I used both a scoopula and a stiff brush to loosen the powder and transfer it into a glass beaker. This only weighed about 1.3 g, and so I needed to add approx. 0.2 g of logwood, which I took from the bottom of the container, as it was already mostly powdered. Afterwards, I realized I probably should have started with more than the 1.6 g I needed to end with, as inevitably some will be lost in the process of making the logwood powdered, or become stuck in the mortar.
During this time Siobhan Joyce-Farley and Charlotte Atkins measured out approx. 0.05 g of logwood (taking from the bottom of the jar, that was already powdered.) Because the scale was having a hard time measuring such a small weight, we decided to weigh a scoopula on its own (13.5 g) , and then adding it to the scale with the logwood (13.54) before subtracting the starting weight of the scoopula to determine how much logwood we had (0.04 g).
I finished around 5:22 pm, not yet having added the dyestuff to the water for any of the experiments.
I will return to the lab on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 to continue the experiment by adding the dyestuff to the water and tracking its progress over a few hours.
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*information in graph provided by Naomi Rosenkranz | |
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Making and Knowing Lab (Chandler 260)
Subject: Collecting Materials to take home
November 23, 2021:
Notes from talking with Naomi Rosenkranz about what I need in order to do these experiments in my dorm room, so that I don’t have to be in the lab all day today, and I can continue to do some work over the break;
Easy bases: baking soda, potash (fairly available in pigment world) (probably referenced by author practitioner in imitation rubies alkali salt) (calcined pebbles is basically potash, very common in glassmaking)
Second experiment will have two more tests:
SO (sappanwood orange)
SL (sappanwood lemon)
LO (logwood orange)
LL (logwood lemon)
Only actually need one more of each because I can use from the previous experiment
Probably using the Kirby ratios (as they are larger and easier to measure out)
Test pH of water, and at dif. stages
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: My Dorm Room (Elliott Hall 508)
Subject: Making the “wine”
starting experiments in my dorm room:
Four tests:
Began by testing pH of water from lab
Next: adding dyestuff to water and stirring with chopstick
SB:
Light pink color
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SK:
Burnt sienna color
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LB:
Light purple color
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LK:
Dark purpley brown color
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8:06 am, testing pH after just adding dyestuff
9:40 am, gave all a stir and tested the pH again
11:20 am, took pH again, without stirring them first
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: My Dorm Room (Elliott Hall 508)
Subject: Transmuting the “wine”
12:07 pm: starting the second part of the experiment (only with Lemon!!)
I transferred 10 ml of each of the “wines” into smaller containers, using the same 10 ml eyedropper for both, [filling and rinsing 3 times between sappanwood and logwood liquids until water runs clear.]
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12:22 pm: taking a lemon and cutting it open + squeezing the juice into a container
Getting ~14 g of juice from one "half" of the lemon, removing the seeds and throwing them away
SBL 10 ml (~10 g)
Started at 11.09 g.
After adding lemon juice drop by drop until 11.39 g/ no red color remaining I stirred the liquid once at the end.
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SKL 10 ml (~9.9 g)
Started at 11.08 g .
After adding lemon juice drop by drop until 12.81 g/ no further change occurred when adding more.
At 11.39 g, this one had yet to change color.
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LBL 10 ml (~9.97 g)
Started at 11.09 g.
After adding lemon juice drop by drop until 11. 38 g and stirring to see if there was no color remaining.
At this point it was yellow, but I wanted to see if any further change would occur so I added more lemon juice until 12.12 g when the color didn't change any further, but I could still see a fainter yellow color ring around where the lemon juice dropped.
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LKL 10 ml (~10.13 g)
Started at 11.25 g.
{I hypothesize that at 11.38 g, like SKL, no change will have occurred.}
After adding lemon juice drop by drop until 11.38 g and stirring to see if a change had occurred. None had, so I added more and stopped around 12.20 g to stir and see if a change had occurred. It had slightly changed, but was still very red So I continued to add lemon juice until 12.81, and stirred.
I continued to add lemon juice until 15.05 g when no further change was occurring when adding lemon juice
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1:05 pm; finished adding lemon juice to all four experiments. I will now let them sit and see if any further change occurs.
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Elliott Dorms
Subject:
By now all four of my experiments with lemon juice added have molded, while the original "wines" have not.
I will begin a new set of “wines”
5:07 pm
100 g of water + 1.67 g of sappanwood
After stirring to the best of my ability, I divided the solution into two containers, ~50 g in each. One had around 21 g of water still in the bottom, so that will become SK2* and the other one will stay SK2
When I divided the solution, most of the dyestuff stayed behind in the container. So I took ~2 g of it and put it into SK2 stirring it in, leaving SK2* without any extra dyestuff other than what went in when I poured it into its container.
I then took the pH of both (as expected the water I started with was a mid pH of between 6 and 7) which was the same for them both, and as the water I started with from the Barnard dorm "Elliott" on the fifth floor.
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5:52 pm
100 g of water + 1.67 g of logwood
LK2 ~50 g
LK2* ~48 g, I added 20 g of water, until ~ 65.25 g total
Although a majority of the dyestuff remained in the container this time as well, I did not add any of it to either experiment, as they both already looked like a deep red wine
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6:08 pm
After having set up both, I decided to let them sit for a while before doing anything more. I will check on them later.
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Elliott Dorms
Subject:
I had looked up how to keep fresh squeezed juice from going bad after a few days, and it said to put it in the freezer. I only have a tiny freezer, and the last thing I had put in it was melted when I took it out a day later, so I figured it would be fine.
But I took the orange juice out at 2:30 pm to continue with my experiment, and it is frozen solid. So now I have to wait for it to defrost before I can continue…
But my "wine" is looking good: the sappanwood looks more like a red wine to me and the logwood is still a slightly brownish color, but I guess it could pass as red wine. I don't drink, so I don't really know.
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Elliott Dorms
Subject:
7:50 am:
Time to start adding the orange juice
Began by weighing each solution
LK2
~49.86 g to start
Zeroed out scale, and began adding orange juice with a dropper until a color change occurred.
After adding ~1.08 g of orange juice, the color had visibly lightened, but was still a dark red
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At ~11.38 g, I thought that maybe having so much "wine" would make it take more orange
juice to transform it, so I took some and moved it to a smaller container.
(call this LK2+)
I took ~10.13 g and in the smaller container, it already looked lighter. I continued with adding orange juice to this smaller sample.
I added ~1.73 g before the sample started to take on a lighter, slightly yellow tone.
After ~5.34 g of orange juice the color was an orangeish brown, and seemed to stop getting any lighter.
I took the pH, and as expected, it was more acidic than before
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SK2*
This one started at ~68.20 g.
Zeroed the scale, and began adding orange juice until a color change was noticed.
After adding ~4.34 g, the color had darkened/gotten cloudier and had taken on a slightly orange color. Could the orange juice I squeezed out on Dec 1, gone bad?
After adding ~ 10 g of orange juice, like with the previous sample, I decided to take 10 g and move it to a smaller container
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SK2*+
~10.03 g
After adding ~6.56 g of orange juice, the color was still a cloudy orange.
I think the orange juice might have gone bad, so I will take a new orange and squeeze the juice from it for the remaining two samples.
That will have to happen later though, because I need to go work on something else
Name: Naomi Alberts
Date and Time:
Location: Elliott Dorms
Subject:
12/09: squeeze lemon and put it in right away
SK2
~15.6 g after 45 drops
Continued adding: 55
70 drops, changed color: probably need to strain the wood out somehow
Put paper towel over and poured into another container: meant to do 10 g, but accidently spilled as I put it down, so ended up with 10.7 g. it is now a yellow, almost urine like color
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LK2*
Did same paper towel technique, still made a little bit of a mess
Using ~8 g
Added 55 drops, ended with more orangey color
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Added 30 more drops, no color change
*New Experiment*
I'm now going to try doubling the "Barwich" ratio of 0.04 g: 50 g dyestuff to water, to 0.08g:100g
Kind of pink, so I will do another with 0.15 g sappanwood to 100 g of water
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Sappanwood 0.08 g:
After 1 g of lemon juice a yellow-ish color
After 3 g, pale yellow
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Removed 20 g and placed in another container, was able to see how "clear it was" on this small scale (would be interesting to do on a larger potentially)
After removing added 1 g more to ensure no further color change
Added 0.25 g of potash, color change occurred upon almost immediate contact with the liquid
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Sappanwood 0.15 g:
Took out 20 g, added 4.15 g until no further color change. More of a white wine color than the clearness of the other ratio.
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Originally only added 0.25 g of potash, as before, and the only change noticed was in the pH level. Added in total 0.32 g of potash, and the color changed.
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Both ended as the same bubblegum pink, even though one started slightly darker than the other.
