The Problem: Reasoning and Background
Paints are utilized to color, add protection and offer texture to different kinds of things around us. Paints have various parts. Ingredients are pigments that provide unique results on paints and unique effects on the wall, woods and other products.
Coleus aromaticusbenth (oregano) is a natural plant that can grow in any type of soil. Some scientists from the University of Tennessee said that this plant can heal coughs of people and relieve the voice of others and it worked in destroying unsafe germs and molds.
Oregano has carvacrol and thymol, which can eliminate fungis and these isomeric compounds, that can be added to an oil-based paint as an additive to identify if oregano is a reliable additive component for paints.
Main Problem
The main problem of the research study is to determine the efficiency of Coleus aromaticus benth extract as an additive fungicide of paints.
Sub-Problems
- Can the oregano extract be an efficient additive fungicide for paints?
- Will the different extract concentrations have an extra impact on the appearance of the paint?
- Will the paint mixtures vary in the rate of killing fungis?
- Which oregano extract concentration is most effective in killing fungis?
- Exists a significant distinction in between the concentrations of oregano extract on the paint mixes on the growth rate of molds in the agar medium?
Hypothesis
- Ho: The oregano extract is not an effective additive fungicide for paints.
- Ho: The extract does not have an additive effect on the appearance of paint.
- Ho: There is insignificant difference in the rate of killing fungi of the mixture.
- Ho: The two concentrations have the same effectiveness in killing fungi
- Ho: There is no significant difference between the concentrations of oregano extract on the paints mixtures on the growth rate of molds in the agar medium.
Conceptual Framework
Oregano, an herbal plant common in the Philippines, has Carvacrol and Thymol that is effective in killing fungi. Oregano is widely used as cough treatments and was used as a fungicide in this study. Fungicides are made up of hexachlorobenzene during the 1940’s. Fungicides added on paints react on the molds, preventing their increase in number.