Adopt an Element: Oxygen I look down at my periodic table that my chemistry teacher had just handed out to me. It contained a variety of colors and elements. It’s amazing how so many elements exists, I wonder if I can be someone so amazing to discover a new element. I run my hand over the newly copied, thin paper. I abruptly stop at the right side of the paper, where my pointer finger points at the first element of column 16 and the sixth element of period 2. Its name is oxygen. What’s so special about oxygen? For some odd reason I feel a special pull towards the element, a feeling of nostalgia and feeling of satisfaction and loyalty. Oxygen is a colourless, odourless gas, in which all kinds of animals, plants, and bacteria use to respirate. That’s all I know about it, or what I thought. My eyes skim at the word. I lift my hand off of the table. I shake my head and the let the thought away, I can’t really be connected to this element, can I? I doze off for the rest of class, barely listening to a word my teacher says. That night, I whip up my computer and go to google.com. My fingers agiley type in the word, “oxygen”. However, I do not dare click the enter button nor the search button. What if I really am connected to this gas? I gulp and take a deep breath before pressing enter. A range of selections pop up, from a tv show to fitness centers. I skim through the sites, not long before clicking on a site called rsc.org to read what oxygen really is. The first thing I
Every element is valuable and unique due to the endless arrangements of sub-atomic particles, which fascinates me. This allows for a diversity of elemental properties, sparking innovation for chemists to develop new products from different tasting chocolates to materials used for rockets- shaping society and the environment of the modern world. The sheer range of applications where chemistry is involved inspires me to contribute, while learning, unlocking why everything behaves the way it does.
Part 3 of the experiment utilized Spectrophotometry to determine the iron content in the iron (III) oxalate complex. The results were combined with findings from Part 1 and
I am sitting here completely dumb founded as I think about chemistry. How does chemistry relate to me? How do I relate chemistry? It is such a subject that I am unsure of how it fits into my life other than a class I took in high school. As I dig deeper instead of just scratching the surface, I realize that I use and will be going to use chemistry more and more in my life.
“What’s going on?” I thought to myself as I pushed the curtain away from the window to allow the bright light from outside flow onto the pages of my chemistry book. As I let the curtain go, my cluttered room fell dark again but the sun seeped through a crack in the curtain just enough for me to be able to make out the outlines of my makeup bags lying in the floor, shoes and my school books. On the highest shelf, there was a small metal box with pure, elemental lithium in it. The top of the box, there was a running horse. I traced the horse with my finger, remembering my friend who gave it to me. I’ve never attempted to open the box, because apparently water makes lithium burn, even just the humidity in the air. I never got the nerve to open the box. I recalled my friend, Al the gebra. At first I thought he was a zebra but I realized the stripes her equations. I smiled as I remembered my strange friends I left behind in the even stranger world of Mathematics. I had no idea that when I followed that Imaginary Number through the portal that I would begin a great adventure. I would of never thought there would be an intelligent horse for each periodic element and isotopes, or that the Order of Operations were an actual solid thing.
Close your eyes. I want you to hear and recognize five or more things either in or outside the room. Once you have done this realize what your body is touching, chairs, clothes, and watches anything. Now I want you to place your feet softly on the ground and dig your heels and toes into the sole of your shoe. Now calm your nerves and imagine your body floating through space, allowing the darkness to guide you on a peaceful trip through space. As you pass you notice that the bright stars have happy memories from your childhood to now, you watch as the memories begin to fade. The memories have now faded.
Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.
We all know the saying, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” Similarly, every element in the periodic table has its’ own story and its’ own unique meaning. However, the average high schooler simply associates these elements as something used in their chemistry classes. In fact, the elements seen on the periodic table actually have much more to do in our daily lives and in history than most people know. While giving a whole new perspective to the meaning of Chemistry, author Sam Kean successfully recounts the hidden tales through humor and wit in his bestselling novel The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements. Specifically, Chapter 15, “An Element of
Thanks for your informative essay. This is a summary of researched information to understand the hazards of oxygen therapy. “Oxygen is a necessity for nearly all of earth’s organisms” (Rahman et al, 2006). Caution should be taken with the delivery of oxygen, if not prescribed appropriately it causes cellular damage and death. (Amanda R Knight, Lauren E Fry, 2011).
A. Carbon Monoxide is an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas that is created when there is an incomplete burning of assorted fuels.
Oxygen is a highly reactive nonmetal, and is an oxidizing agent (process of a substance combining with oxygen, like rust). Oxygen has the second highest electronegativity; electronegativity is a measure of the tendency an atom to attract with a bonding pair of electrons with oxygen’s electronegativity at 3.44. Oxygen is can be a clear, tasteless and odorless gas, or a pale-blue liquid. Oxygen will condense at -297.31 °F, and will freeze at -361.82 °F. Oxygen is a poor conductor of heat and electricity, and is somewhat soluble in water. Oxygen is denser than air- with a density of 1.429 G/L-
Oxygen is the part of the gases that is inhaled by mammals, even though it is not the most abundant in the atmosphere. This oxygen is the function of the blood and the heart, and it is dissolved in the plasma PaO2 and chemically bound to hemoglobin SaO2. In fact, for every 100 d/L of blood, 0.003ml of oxygen is dissolved in the plasma, and 1.34 m l of oxygen is carried in every 100 d/l of blood (Oxygen equilibrium and
percent by weight of the oceans and, as a constituent of most rocks and minerals,
effect on oceans, though. He says the problem lies on the fact that 70 percent
The environment generally refers to the surrounding’s of an object or an individual. It can be in the form of the physical environment, biophysical environment, built environment, social environment and the natural environment among other forms. The natural environment refers to the naturally occurring flora and fauna together with the land on which they occupy.