Oxygen
Halle Bratvold
December 15th 2017
Physical Science Period 3
Abstract There are many debates on which element is the most important for this planet, but oxygen is definitely one of the most necessary for life to survive. In order for humans, animals, and anything living to survive, they must have oxygen. Oxygen is produced by a process called photosynthesis, which is when plants produce glucose and oxygen by using carbon dioxide. Oxygen also makes up about 21% of our entire atmosphere. All in all, oxygen can do many things, good, bad and otherwise. But no matter what, it is still one of the most essential elements needed for earth to survive.
Introduction Many people underestimate how important oxygen actually is. They don’t realize that their entire survival relies on one element in more ways than one.
Background
Who Discovered It
Oxygen was discovered by two different people on two separate occasions in the same year of 1774. The men who discovered it were Joseph Priestly and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Joseph Priestly was born in 1733 in Wiltshire, England. He was a very smart young child, learning six languages before he reached high school. He also had a very large passion for chemistry. After he discovered oxygen, he used his discoveries to invent carbonated water. Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in 1733 in Uppsala, Sweden. When he was 22 years old, he got a job at a pharmacy, and that spiked his interest in chemistry, which led him to
3. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, sodium, and magnesium are elements essential to life.
Oxygen, O2, is a kind of gas. A lot of the air we breathe as human beings is oxygen. Which is good since we need oxygen to stay alive. Oxygen is also a primary element in fire. Fire is a chemical process. Three elements are needed for this process: oxygen, heat and fuel. Without one of those
Oxygen is one of the reactants necessary for respiration therefore it is essential for all living organisms. Oxygen is produced through the process of photosynthesis where energy from the sun is converted into chemical energy in the form of glucose.
Like all other elements, nitrogen is very important in life but in moderation. We sometimes cause an overload
The pure oxygen gives the user a lot easier time breathing and allows there body to work less to take in oxygen. The amount of intake of the pure oxygen is prescribed by a doctor and should not be tampered with, or the user might succumb to oxygen poising. The pure oxygen is only a temporary solution as the user’s lungs will eventually become so weak on their own the amount of pure oxygen will not be enough to keep them alive. After a patient’s lung capacity shrinks to where the pure oxygen is not enough they have to go get there blood and organs oxygenated. If the oxygenation of the body goes well they will have to repeat the process for the rest of their lives until the respiratory failure kills
Photosynthesis also gives off oxygen. Photosynthesis would not be possible without
The process of oxygen getting into the body’s muscles is simple. First oxygen enters into the body through the nasal cavity, then travels down the trachea. While travelling down the trachea, dust and bacteria get trapped, preventing infection and sickness. Later then, the oxygen goes into both the right and left bronchi, then lungs. The oxygen travels further through the lungs, going to the bronchioles and further to the alveoli. Once the oxygen has reached the alveoli, it then proceeds into the blood stream, letting the oxygen run throughout the body. Soon, this oxygen reaches the heart and allowing the heart to pump the oxygen to the muscles. This helps all working muscles to produce movement (Oxygen transport system, n.d.). These muscles
It plays an important role in the every hospital and home care settings as well. With oxygen being considered a drug, we always need a doctors or physicians order depending on Patients condition. By providing therapy safely and carefully, guidelines would be considered as device selection, ventilation/ advance airway safety, and patient ergonomics during oxygen therapy. By providing the right oxygen to a patient, we should never give too much and always ensure that the patient is getting the right amount. This could help and prevent life threatening
he credit for finding oxygen is currently shared by three physicists: an Englishman, a Swede, and a Frenchman. Joseph Priestley was the first to distribute a record of oxygen, having made it in 1774 by focussing daylight on to mercuric oxide (HgO), and gathering the gas which fell off. He noticed that a light smoldered all the more splendidly in it and that it made breathing simpler. Obscure to Priestly, Carl Wilhelm Scheele had created oxygen in June 1771. He had composed a record of his disclosure yet it was not distributed until 1777. Antoine Lavoisier additionally asserted to have found oxygen, and he suggested that the new gas be called oxy-gène, which means corrosive shaping, since he thought it was the premise of all
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), ascorbyl palmite, erthorbic acid (d-isomer of ascorbic acid) and its sodium salt, etc. belong to this group of antioxidants. They can react with oxygen and can consequently, remove it in a blocked system.
Oxygen Canisters: The canisters of oxygen symbolizes support and assistance of the climber as they ascend higher to the Summit of Everest. It becomes more difficult to breathe because the oxygen level is low and barely exists in the high altitude. But the supplemental oxygen creates that feeling of comfort and that everything seems to feel normal and the climber feels confidence knowing that they are still breathing and alive. The Summit:
John Dalton, a British chemist and physicist, that was born on the 6th of September 1766. His study of gases led Dalton to wonder about what these invisible substances
Here is a little school lesson and you might have a quiz on it next Sunday! Oxygen enhances life. It generates heat and promotes growth. Oxygen fosters radiant health. With a higher oxygen intake, the arteries become elastic, the heart is active and agile, the pulse grows stronger, the skin is healthy and the mind is extraordinarily positive. Flak is a chemical process. Three things are required for this process: oxygen, heat and fuel.
Oxygen is a part of the air and it is responsible for aerobic respiration in humans, animals and some microorganisms to produce energy and to function. Air also contains carbon dioxide, and it is a crucial part of photosynthesis in primary producers, such as plants, for the production of chemical energy (Reference, 2017).
oxygen is used in plants in the form of co2 and h2o to form the photosynthesis equation to create energy. Which it then uses to grow while outputting o2 or oxygen makes up 20% of our atmosphere. Next i will be covering the nitrogen cycle