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An Investigation into the Effect of Lipase Concentration on the Hydrolysis Of Fats  

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An Investigation into the Effect of Lipase Concentration on the Hydrolysis Of Fats Using the data loggers a recording of the pH was taken every 5 seconds and for each experiment the data loggers produced graphs of the change in pH. From each of these graphs a gradient was calculated which showed the rate of pH change per second. Firstly I calculated the gradients by choosing the steepest section of the graph and dividing the change in pH of this section by the time. However this method proved to be quite inaccurate giving very varied results, for example in these results the average rate of reaction for the 4% lipase solution (-0.457 pH/min) was lower than the 3% lipase solution (-0.471 pH/min). Also the rates in the 2% lipase solution ranged from -0.01 pH/min to -0.95 pH/min showing little reliability in the results. This was partly as I was only guessing...

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