Most people have chosen to write their essay about how chemistry has played an important role in everyday life. I have chosen to ask, how doesn't it play a role in everyday life? The simple fact is that chemistry plays an important role in every person's daily activities from the moment w...

The Importance of Chemistry We are surrounded everyday by Chemistry. Chemistry was responsible for you car to get you to work, your furnace to heat your home, and your body to turn your breakfast into energy. The coke you drank with your lunch was flavoured by chemistry. Chemistry is ...

Guide: Chemistry 2045. Exam 1 Ch. 1-6Chapter 1: Keys to the study of Chemistry1.1 Fundamental definitions· Chemistry: The study of matter and its properties, the changes that matter undergoes, and the energy associated with those changes.· Matter: Anything that has mass and volume, inertia, and ...

The Interview For my interview, I interviewed Jennifer Wong, a scientist in the development of analytic chemistry. In her occupation she purifies and analyzes proteins, as well as characterizes the proteins. She works for Panox located at 10301 Stellink Houston, TX 77025. For this company ...

Dimitri Mendeleev Derived by Dimitri Mendeleev, the periodic table may be one of the most informational tables contained in chemistry. By leaving gaps in the columns and rows, Mendeleev was allowing for the discovery of undiscovered elements of that time. From the properties of the elements surro...

Dimitri Mendeleev & The Periodic Table Derived by Dimitri Mendeleev, the periodic table may be one of the most informational tables contained in chemistry. By leaving gaps in the columns and rows, Mendeleev was allowing for the discovery of undiscovered elements of that time. From the propert...

William Henry Perkin 1 Perkin Medal Way Greenford Green, Britain 12345 October 31, 1906 Dear my Sweetest Grandchildren, Hello, I am you Grandfather William Perkin. I know you must be wondering who I am and why you are receiving this letter. I am your mother's Father. I gave her th...

Alchemy There are many ways to examine the subject of alchemy, including alchemy as a source of symbolism, psychology, and mysticism. It has also been an influence on the world view of various writers, artist, and musicians. The focus of this report is alchemy as a pre-chemistry, which gave a ...

The life of Ira Remsen Ira Remsen was born on February 10, 1846 in New York city. Even though he was born in the United States, he was educated in Germany. He received his M.D. at Columbia University in 1867 and he also earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and Göttingen ...

About two weeks ago in my chemistry class, the teacher told us that we were having a surprise test on experiments. I was really worried because I did not complete the homework from the night before, and I thought that I was going to fail. After the teacher finished giving directions, we started ...

Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People havealways known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the firststo speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that itwas possible that individual particles made up matter. Later, in the Seventeenth Century, a German chemist ...

Fausto de Elhuyar the man, the myth, the legend lived from 1775-1833. Elhuyar was no ordinary chemist. Along with being the co-discoverer of tungsten, he has written and published many of his works. He was the founder of the Royal school of mines in Mexico. Now that I've given you an overvi...

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born on Aug. 26, 1743. He grew up the oldest child in his family in Paris, France, and a product of the bourgeoisie lifestyle. His father was a well-off attorney who followed the family tradition of practicing law. Antoine's mother died when he was just a boy, bu...

Just like the old saying "no two fingers prints are the same", the rules follows suite with the natural pigments of the hair. Color hair is not as simple as television makes it seem to be. In fact coloring hair requires a basic understanding of simple chemistry, and what happens to the hai...

Identifying and Dealing with Stress Introduction: Stress is big problem in our society, if not the biggest. The stress that I am talking about is distress. Distress is the negative stress, which is the stress that you don't want. Stress is when feeling overwhelmed with demands of a situat...

Unimolecular Solvolysis The speed that a reaction takes place is important in chemistry because it provides necessary information about reactant mechanism or the path over which reactants travel on their way to becoming products. The rate data interpretation depends on knowledge of known factors...

Robert Boyle Robert Boyle was born in Ireland in the county of Waterford in the city of Lismore on the 25th of January 1627. His father Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, had left England in 1588. Robert's mother, Catherine Fenton Boyle, was Richard's second wife. Robert was the seventh ...

Self PresentationIt was Monday morning as I walked into my 11:00 AM Organic Chemistry 2 class. It was a feeling all too familiar. The reason being it was my second time taking the class that is talked up to be the hardest course one has to take in the first four years of any pre-health related major...

Year 11 Chemistry Unit 1 POLYETHENE-ain't it choice! word count : 1131 Polyethene also known as polyethylene or polythene, was the first of the polymers to be discovered. Polyethene is a polymer produced by reacting oxygen and ethene, in this reaction the small ethene molecules attach t...

Going Away to College Compared to most kids during the first day in my new school, I wasn't that thrilled to actually be there. One thing, I believe to be rather "too young" to be in college. And when I realized that I already have majors (zoology? General chemistry? Like, huh?) ...

I chose to do my paper on vinyl siding because it is the most durable, yet inexpensive, exterior finish. Vinyl siding also is available in many different textures and colors allowing each house to have a unique finish. Another reason I chose this topic is because vinyl siding is easy to install...

In the unorderly world of today's society, we find little time to look deeper at the framework that holds together the human race. We tend to leave the exploration of the human body up to the allied health professionals. Nurses among others, are dedicated to understanding and studying the biologic...

Periodic Table In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements of the time into what we call the periodic table. Mendeleev recognized that elements placed in order of increasing atomic mass exhibit a regular, or periodic repetition of their chemical and physical properties. The modern p...

Chapter 15 Vocab Boiling temperature elevation- property of solutions that describes temperature difference between boiling point of a pure solvent and temperature at which solution begins to boil. Colligative property- characteristic of a solution that does not depend on size or type of particl...

John Dalton once made this famous quote on his work concerning the atom, " We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen." John Dalton was a British chemist and physicist,...