Styrofoam

material that changed the world of plastics, the material we all know a Styrofoam, Ray McIntire invented Styrofoam from the then common material polystyrene by, “Combining styrene with isobutylene, a volatile liquid, under pressure. The result was foam polystyrene with bubble, 30 times lighter than regular polystyrene” ( Bellis 2).This material quickly caught on as an insulator. Also this new interest in Styrofoam lead to more research in polystyrene

Thesis Statement : people usually uses Styrofoam for their food container, because its easy to use, Styrofoam are easy to use because its hold food temperature longer than the other food container, Styrofoam also can maintain its shape while containing its food. Although Styrofoam very easy to use, its has many dangerous effect. the materials in the Styrofoam contain dangerous compound that causes several disease. Such as benzene. benzene can causes disease on thyroid gland, many doctors and researcher

Also according to Now and Forever The Styrofoam Dilemma, “three million tons of polystyrene that are produced in the U.S.of 2.3 million tons end up in landfills, with much of the remainder finding its way into waterways and styrofoam cups get thrown away by americans an estimated about 25 billion every year, or about 82 cups per person”(Catherine Solyom, 2015). In the article “Why Ban Styrofoam?” it says that “Styrofoam should not be out in the environment because the cups that

experiment, the reaction of Hydrochloric Acid and Ammonium hydroxide were conducted. During reaction 1, Hydrochloric acid was combined with Ammonium Hydroxide. To do this, two Styrofoam cups were stacked together and placed into a beaker. 50 ml of the “2 M HCL” solution prepared in step 1 was added to the Styrofoam cup. The Styrofoam cup was then covered with a plastic lid and the temperature probe was inserted into the solution, making sure

which is that styrofoam cups are cheaper and that is something that is beneficial to the big companies because if they were to switch to different cups, it will cost the companies more money. After doing some research, I think styrofoam is not as bad to environment as they make it seem. They say styrofoam has some environmental health concerns for the users of it but let’s be honest what material doesn’t? Plastic and aluminum also have a list full of environmental concerns as well. Styrofoam could be

Styrofoams is durable enough that styrofoam is used for building homes. The durability is high compressive and extra strong. The major disadvantage when using styrofoam when done with the scraps of styrofoam the styrofoam is really hard to decompose when recycling, because it is so lightweight and durable. Back to the magnets and how it loses strength when heated to much, but styrofoam is resistant to heat. There is another way to call styrofoam which is called Polystyrene

sister’s nails and decided to do nail art and poured some nail polish onto a styrofoam plate and before she could put it on the brush it burned a hole through the plate. After I saw that I decided that when I had to do a science fair project that's what I would do and here we are. I got the information to do this (like the procedure) from a website called education.com. I found out chemical name nail polish and styrofoam on sciencefix.com and gal science.com. Then I asked my Aunt , who is a chemist

1. What do you think would happen if you threw a block of Styrofoam™ into the water? The Styrofoam will float 2. What would happen if you broke the Styrofoam up into lots of pieces, then threw the pieces into water? The pieces will still float 3. What

the heat capacity of a Styrofoam calorimeter in comparison to a brand calorimeter. Water shall be used first because of its known specific heat and the experiment will be repeated with HCL (Hydrochloric Acid) and NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) in hopes to calculating the specific heat of the reaction. In this experiment, two Styrofoam cups and a brand calorimeter are each used to calculate heat transfer. The results will be compared to see if the something as simple as a Styrofoam cup can be used accurately

experiment uses two types of calorimeters; a homemade, Styrofoam calorimeter, and a market brand calorimeter. This Styrofoam calorimeter is a less complex version of the market calorimeter and is used in some schools to save money. 4 Necessary features for a calorimeter include good insulation and little to no holes reducing heat loss to the surroundings. The goal for this experiment is to assess the usefulness of a homemade, Styrofoam calorimeter in comparison to a market brand calorimeter