Categories of Cost
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Materials
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Amount of the Material
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Cost per Item
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Total Cost
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Mechanism
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Clear, hard
plastic for the final prototype
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1
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$0.00
(provided by a team member)
|
$0.00
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Frame for the
final prototype built from hard plastic (built in the machine shop)
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1
|
$0.00
(provided by a team member)
|
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3-D hitch for
the model jeep (built on the 3-D printer)
|
1
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$0.00
(provided by the machine shop)
|
$0.00
|
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Plastic
container (used to test the transduction mechanism before the final
prototype)
|
1
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$43.00
|
$43.00
|
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Super
Epoxy glue
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2
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$13.99
|
$27.98
|
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Experiment
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Bicarbonate indicator solution (used to test the amount of
carbon dioxide present when plants are exposed to the car exhaust): potassium
chloride, thymol blue cresol red, ethanol, sodium bicarbonate
|
1
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$0.00 (used
the Chemistry department resources to make the solution)
|
$0.00
|
1
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$2.00
|
$2.00
|
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Carbon
dioxide meter (needed to measure the efficiency of the carbon dioxide to
oxygen conversions done by the plants; cannot measure the converted carbon
dioxide in the experiments or in the final prototype if not present, and
cannot analyze any data to indicate the efficiency and the usefulness of the
mechanism)
|
2
|
$201.88
|
$403.76
|
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Horticulture
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English Ivy
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3
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$3.33
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$10.00
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TOTAL
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$486.74
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