| Science fair projects on burning fabrics can be | | | | an adult standing by to supervise your experiment. |
| designed to test the safety of pajamas or simply | | | | Now that you have a couple of chemistry science fair |
| designed to look at the heat produced by various | | | | projects under your belt, you can advance your |
| types of fabrics. When designing your chemistry | | | | project designs. The first option that you have is to |
| experiments you will want to select a topic that not | | | | examine what characteristics make fabrics burn |
| only is interesting to you, but that also has a practical | | | | faster. How can you set up an experiment to learn the |
| application. In the following sections you will learn about | | | | answer to this problem? Think about things like the |
| several different science fair projects that you can | | | | dryness of the fabric and the fabric's weave. Also |
| complete. Some will be for 2 month science fair | | | | look at chemical additives and dies that are normally |
| projects while others will be shorter. | | | | added during the manufacturing of fabric. |
| What is more flammable, natural fiber fabrics or | | | | The second option that you have for advancing your |
| synthetic fiber fabrics? This is a very practical | | | | fabric experiments is to look at what fabric |
| hypothesis question to test with your science fair | | | | characteristics actually slows down the rate it will burn. |
| projects on burning fabrics. Clothing manufacturers and | | | | For this experiment you will want to look again at |
| safety agencies want to know what fabrics are | | | | additives, weave and fiber structure. You will need a |
| safest for kids clothing and which are the best for fire | | | | microscope to complete this experiment. Who would |
| fighters and safety crews to use for their uniforms. To | | | | be interested in the results of this experiment and |
| test this hypothesis you will need several samples of | | | | why? How can you translate this experiment into a |
| fabric, half of which are synthetic and half of which | | | | prize winning science fair project? What would you |
| are natural fabrics. Then you will try to set each on fire | | | | need to add to the experiment? |
| using the same technique. Which goes up in flames the | | | | The final option that you have for advancing your |
| easiest? | | | | fabric experiments is to look at how the weave of a |
| What produces more heat when burned, natural | | | | fabric impacts its flammability. There are several |
| fabrics or synthetic fabrics? This is another great | | | | variations you can test. First of all you can see if the |
| hypothesis to work with when developing science fair | | | | weave increases the flammability in both natural and |
| projects on burning fabrics. The independent variable | | | | synthetic fabrics, secondly you can see if weave |
| for this experiment is the type of fabric you are | | | | tightness affects the flammability of the fabric and |
| burning and the dependent variable will be the amount | | | | finally you can test to see if weave pattern impacts |
| of heat it produces. Since you are working with fire, | | | | how flammable the final product will be. What other |
| make sure you take the necessary precautions and | | | | experiments can you design that look at how weave |
| that you have a fire extinguisher on hand. Also, have | | | | impacts the flammability of a fabric? |