what would happen if a glass of lemonade spilled in a swimming pool...?

Question

would you would you be able to detect the lemonade ........ useing that answer what might happen if poisonous chemicals were dummped in a lake from witch a town drws its own water supplies?

Answer 1

I would say that you wouldn't be able to detect the lemonade in the swimming pool. Because there are no living organisms (other than alge) and because lemonade it not particularly harmful there is no biological reaction to the lemonade. However poisonous chemicals that are dumped into lakes, rivers and such generally tend to be oils such as gasoline or motor oil, those substances float on top of water thus making them easy to detect. poisonous chemicals that disolve into water are harmful to the abundant life in rivers and lakes thus it is easy to detect the chemical because of the dead or injured organisms.

Answer 2

Glass Of Lemonade

Answer 3

If you looked hard enough, you would find evidence of lemonade on the pool. It may be teh presence of a lemon seed or a piece of lemon pulp. A person might get lucky and find a molecule of sugar or citric acid.

Similarily, plasma is supposed to be void of red blood cells. Yet if a person looks hard enough, they can ususally find red blood cells in a unit of plasma.

Could the water supply be poisoned without being detected? Possibly. While detecting a minute amount of poison can be done, it is not cost effective to be done on a continual basis. The example I gave about the plasma was done to secure a murder conviction in a trial, thus it was worth the time and expense to find a few reb blood cells.

There is also the dilution factor. If a water supply was poisoned to the point it couldn't be detected, chances are the poison won't be strong enough to do harm. (For example, cyanide is present in cigarette smoke, but it is not concentrated enough to instantly kill someone despite being a very deadly toxin)

Answer 4

Depends on the level of dilution - and whether or not there is a sensitive lab test for lemonade :-)

If there were a sufficent concentration of the chemical to be harmful, it can be detected. You actually need to ingest a fair amount of most toxins to do harm.

Answer 5

I dont know...id look for yellow in the blue water, or try to find where the lemony smell is coming from....Liquids takeform of what they are in so id just go to the ends....Just making sure but you do mean actual lemonade rite...and not.....