for water is more than in Panama City, FL where not as many residents live there . FL water purifying company is not as close to the hotels and therefore, the water will collect more ions as it has a farther distance to travel than the waters from the dorm and the house. This is the reason that the tests in the lab gave data to support this new hypothesis: water from the tap in a residential area is less hard then areas farther away from the water purifying company. References 1. Brown, Theodore L., H. Eugene LeMay Jr., Bruce E. Bursten. Chemistry: The Central Science. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000.2. Thompson, Stephen. PSU Version of Chemtrek: August 2000 to July 2001. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2000.3. http://courses.chem.psu.edu/chem14/water.pdf.4. http://www.cciw.ca/gems/atlas-gwq/gems12.htm.5. Hardness and Water Quality. http://fluid.state.ky.us/ww/ramp/rmhard.htm.6. http://www.cciw.ca/gems/atlas-gwq/gems10.htm.Additional credit is given...for their contributions from the dorm tap water, and the house tap water. Also, for their data given from the same lab procedure....
