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...

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...

Three Branches of ScienceAndrew RamboMs. Gardener10th Grade BiologySeptember 11, 2000Science is such a wide area that it is divided into branches. Biology, chemistry and geology are three of these branches. Each branch of science are very different. They use many of the same techniques in the study...

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...

(1)One 19th century chemist who made many discoveries and had manyaccomplishments, which lead to the better of mankind, is Friedrich August Kekule. HisBenzene ring finding made him a pioneer in the world of chemistry, even though chemistrywas not very highly regarded in his day. Kekule's success c...

A Vogadro was born on June 9, 1776 in Turin, Italy. He began his career in 1796 by obtaining a doctorate in law and practicing as a lawyer for three years after. In 1800, he began to take private lessons in mathematics and physics and decided to make the natural sciences his profession. He was appoi...

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 ...

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (lah vwah ZYAY) was one of the best-known French scientists and was an important government official. His theories of combustion, his development of a way to classify the elements and the first modern textbook of chemistry led to his being known...

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 ...

Time as a Determinate of Final Product in a Dehydration ReactionRobert Simack, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.Abstract: This study involved acid dehydration of 2-methylcyclohexanol. The results varied depending on the time elapsed after ...

Hello. My name is Dmitri Mendeleev. As you probably know I was the creator of the Periodic Table of the Elements. For those of you that don't know what that is, the table of elements is an arrangement of different chemicals that are arranged in Atomic Weight order. I also left space for 3 n...

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...

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...

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 new impulse to...

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...

Biochemical Engineering!How would you like to examine physical properties of a wide array of different animals? Not only that but also research the processes of many organisms? If this sounds exciting, then biochemical engineering is the best career choice for you! Biochemists find many amazing t...

Biochemical Engineering!How would you like to examine physical properties of a wide array of different animals? Not only that but also research the processes of many organisms? If this sounds exciting, then biochemical engineering is the best career choice for you! Biochemists find many amazing t...

Biochemical Engineering!How would you like to examine physical properties of a wide array of different animals? Not only that but also research the processes of many organisms? If this sounds exciting, then biochemical engineering is the best career choice for you! Biochemists find many amazing t...

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?) ...

Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People have always known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the first to speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that it was possible that individual particles made up matter. Later, in the Seventeenth Century, a German chemist na...