The phrase "an experiment to try" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific experiment that one intends to conduct or test.
Example: "We have designed an experiment to try that will help us understand the effects of temperature on plant growth."
Alternatives: "a test to conduct" or "a trial to perform".
"You could say that the short one is meant to be listened to and the long one is meant to be heard while sleeping," Richter notes, adding "It's really an experiment to try and understand how we experience music in different states of consciousness".
Henry arrives and we cook up an experiment to try to answer my editor's question.
"It was a very American show, an experiment to try to make my work American, which I think in retrospect makes as much sense as setting Neil Simon in Godalming," Ayckbourn says.
We rarely get to see a major, nationwide economic experiment at work, but so far 2013 has been one of those experiments -- specifically, an experiment to try and do exactly what Beckworth and Ponnuru proposed.
A team led by Kerry Kawakami from York University in Canada conducted an experiment to try to understand how racism persisted despite most people roundly condemning it.Dr Kawakami, too, used students.
The nature of this research has not been disclosed, however it is know that the Home Office has used the DNA of asylum seekers in the human provenance project, an experiment to try to establish the race and origin of particular people.
Expedition leader and meteorologist Felicity Aston examines how clouds capture and store liquid water in the skies with an ambitious experiment to try and weigh a cloud.
So, my colleagues and I are conducting an Internet experiment to try to settle the matter.
"I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and beat the record with something as basic as possible.
It would be an interesting experiment to try, to see if Americans are as enamored with the strategic aspects of the game as the intelligentsia claim to be.
That was the year of my great Internet dating adventure and it seemed an intriguing experiment to try.
