This week we had time to go over our results from our experiments with CaCO3 and realized that we needed to change the solution since our membrane was deteriorating too quickly. My mentor decided to remove NaCl from our feed solution because he believed that it may be too corrosive for the sensitive membrane. So instead of running experiments on CaSO4 this week, we ran CaCO3 one more time. As it turns out his intuition was 100% right. Not only did this save our membrane, but it also gave a sense of security that the results that we are observing are truly a result of the specific salt we are reporting on. We will be trying CaSO4 next week so that we can have solid evidence for our research and hopefully we can document our findings by the time the presentation is around.

I took a different route to get to campus and this building really caught my attention.
Details are 10/10.