Solving The Catastrophe e What exactly was it that needed to be solved? Well as it turns out we didn't really need to solve a problem at all. We had to instead learn how to create a fertilizer that someone else has created before, and simply figure out how it is that they did it. e Fertilizers are used to keep plants healthy, and for this lab, our TA gave us a label from a common fertilizer that is actually used in the open market. From there, our job was to recreate the fertilizer in a lab setting and learn the processes involved with doing so. e By doing this lab exercise we learned not only how to make a fertilizer, but also how to use various pieces of equipment in the lab, how to mix, create, use, and treat chemicals, and lastly, how to just simply run a lab experiment in general as a whole.FOOD CLOTHING The Basics %% SHELT e Tostart off the experiment, we were given a few basic but key pieces of information and rules to follow as a guideline. e Recipe: 8.0% Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. It was also 1.5% Magnesium. e Some of the other information that was given to us was the chemicals that we had available to use in our lab in order to create the fertilizer. e Using this starting information, the equipment we had in the lab, and our general understanding of chemistry, our group was able to begin creating the fertilizer.How we got Started and our Initial thoughts e Atfirst, to be honest, our lab group had no clue what to do in order to start because the labs was written up in a way where instead of telling us what to do, we just had to go and figure it out for ourselves. e Inorder to solve this dilemma our group had to sit down for a few quick minutes and discuss how we were going to go about completing this lab correctly. e Once everyone had agreed on a plan of action, we showed our results and plan to the TA, and after her confirmation we began our ee and this is how we did it... RIPON eS