The phrase "experimental attempt" is correct and can be used in written English.
You would use it to describe when something is being done for the first time in an effort to examine the potential outcome. For example, "The scientist made an experimental attempt to see if the chemical reaction could be reversed."
And even the more skeptical would probably agree that the play is interesting as an experimental attempt to restore verse to British drama, or at least as an indirect insight into its author's own awful marriage.
It was the latest in a series of Campbell's increasingly innovative improvisations, following on from his 2005 Improvathon, an experimental attempt to perform a 36-hour play without a script.
Here we report the first experimental attempt of quantifying the intrinsic wettability of the edge surface of graphite.
I've been spending the last few days fooling around with Google Squared, the search giant's experimental attempt to generate structured results, and for the most part I'd consider myself cautiously optimistic.
Palm's cute micro phone is also an experimental attempt to create a new mobile device category — a sort of netbook-esque concept of an extra mobile that's extra portable — which looks unlikely to be anything other than extremely niche.
His initial experimental attempt to demonstrate that the character of the developing embryo is determined by nuclear rather than cytoplasmic factors was launched in 1889.
One manifestation of this split has come in experimental attempts to use Viagra-like drugs to treat women who complain of deficient desire.
Surprisingly, a variety of experimental attempts at measuring the velocity of light from the perspectives of different inertial frames of reference all yielded the same result: the velocity was precisely the value predicted by Maxwell's theory.
But Dr Meyer also rejects some of the traditional claims made on its behalf.Dr Meyer's study is a review of 1,292 papers that report experimental attempts to link Rorschach responses with personality traits that have been established by other means.
This situation led to experimental attempts to show how, through repeated stimulation, the perceptual system could progress from performance of only very primitive functions to the highly complex operations (such as form identification and discrimination) that are characteristic of the mature organism.
This method was proposed on the basis of experimental attempts previously conducted by the authors.
