This error resulted in a larger difference between the concentration values of the lowest and second lowest temperatures, 30.0°C and 45.0°C, as seen in Table , being one of the reasons why the Figure graph did not resemble one of exponential growth, since a characteristic of exponential growth is the differences in dependent value increasing as the independent value increases. A way of minimizing this error would be to select a higher starting temperature for the independent variable to provide the solution with enough energy to fully dissolve the acetylsalicylic acid powder.