Grow+Beasts

=** //Grow Beasts // ** = =Mr. T (triceratops)= On June 29th, 2010 Mr. T was submerged in two cups of room temperature water; he measured 4.5 cm from the tip of the tail to the beak. I left him there for four days and continued to measure several times a day. He grew/swelled up to measure 11 cm. That's approximately 2.5 times its original size! It took almost 4 days to reach the maximum length 11 cm, and another 6 days to shrink back to 6.8 cm, which is 51% more than its original size. Click here to see Mr. T's measurements by date and time.





=Blondie= On the other hand, Blondie at first was submerged in two cups of water and two tablespoons of baking soda....it wasn't a good idea. Blondie started desperately floating as you can see in the picture and did NOT grow at all! After almost three days, I rinsed her out and decided to decrease the amount of baking soda to one teaspoon. Blondie started growing overnight, but did so at a much slower rate than Mr. T. Oh! and she wasn't floating anymore! Check out the graph and compare to that of Mr. T.



It took Blondie almost 5 days to reach her maximum height of 5.8 cm measured head to paw. She doubled her original height, and what was interesting was that she shrank at a faster rate than she grew. It took a little over three days to shrink back to 4.4 cm which is 52% more than her original size. Click here to see Blondie's measurements by date and time.

Conclusion
In this next graph we can see that Mr. T grew at a faster pace and a little more than Blondie. On the other hand, although Blondie didn't grow as fast, I didn't leave it longer to verify it wouldn't grow more. Therefore the only thing I can conclude is that grow beasts grow faster in water, and that baking soda stops the growth rate yet, it actually helped to shrink at a faster rate. Click here to go back to the cohort's grow beast page.



