Chemistry- 19
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Science and Technology?

Here are some examples of the advantages of Technology:
->with technology you can do work more efficiently.
->employment is better because new jobs are coming up because of the new technology.
->accessing to information is easy.
-> it is more organized an example is if you write a essay on paper you can lose it very easily but if you type it up in MS word it can be saved on your computer or a USB stick,
->downloading you can get any song or music video for free instead of buying it.

Disadvantages:
->developing countries can't afford all the advanced technology so people from there try to settle in a developed country it will be hard for them to get a job since they will have to learn new skills like how to work a computer.
->can make you lazy
->new forms of entertainment, such as video games and internet access could have possible social effects on areas such as academic performance
->less conversations face to face because of e-mail or the phone, or text messages, msn, facebook


Above are the examples of advantages and disadvantages of technology, now, let us continue with the advantages and disadvantages of science------>
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What About SCIENCE?


Advantages:
* You get to know more about the world around you.
* More species would be discovered.
* More scientists on the planet Earth.
* More subjects for you to study in school.
* More technology for our convenience.

Disadvantages:
* Scientists die in labs because of accidents.
* Too many species to keep track of.
* Animals disturbed from habitats.
* Plant species taken from environment.
* Rare species threatened.


references: www.wikianswers.com (:

Chemistry- 18
Some uses of:

Boron:
Borax, the most common natural form of boron, has a wide variety of uses. Borax is used in cleaning compounds, glass and ceramics, fertilizers, papers and paints, and fire retardants. Borax is also used in enamels covering the steel of refrigerators, washing machines, and other like objects.
Boron is almost as hard as diamond, so it is used in place diamonds in many cases.

Fluorine:
Most fluorine is used to make fluorine compounds. Fluorides are one form of fluorine compounds; they're fluorine with a metal. The most familiar use of a fluoride is in toothpaste. Fluorides are shown to help reduce tooth decay. The fluorides are added just as new tooth material is formed, making it strong and resistant to decay. Fluorides can also be added to a water supply to help prevent tooth decay. This process is called fluoridation and benefits mostly the younger citizens because their teeth are still developing.

Helium:

Some other common uses for helium include:

  • leak detection systems

  • welding

  • growing silicon and germanium crystals; protective shield

  • titanium and zirconium production; protective shield

  • nuclear reactors; cooling medium

  • diving and others working under pressure; artificial atmosphere with 20% oxygen

  • supersonic wind tunnels

  • cryogenic applications

  • liquid fuel rockets; pressurizing

Lithium
Lithium compounds are used in ceramics and glass, in primary aluminum production, in the manufacture of lubricants and greases, rocket propellants, vitamin A synthesis, silver solders, underwater buoyancy devices, batteries

Beryllium:
  • Turbine rotor blades
  • Laser tubes
  • Rocket engine liners
  • Springs
  • Aircraft brakes and landing gear
  • Ball bearings
  • Injection and blow mold tooling
  • Electrical contacts
  • Automotive electronics
Sulfur:
Use as Hardening agent in the manufacture of rubber products, such as tires.

Argon:

  • Argon fills incandescent light bulbs. This gas replaces the oxygen-rich air that corrodes the Tungsten filament and causes blackening of the bulb.
  • Argon provides the atmosphere for growing crystals to be used in the semiconductor industry, such as Silicon and Germanium.

Krypton:
Krypton is thus used in some types of photographic flashes used in high speed photography.

Xenon:
most common use is in lasers, also used in flash lamps, radioactive isotopes used in medical imaging.

Radon:
Radiation therapy and use in spas for curing arthriris.



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References:

Chemistry- 17
Miscibility is a term commonly used in chemistry that refers to the property of liquids to mix in all proportions, forming a homogeneous solution. In principle, the term applies also to other phases (solids and gases), but the main focus is on the solubility of one liquid in another. Water and ethanol, for example, are miscible since they mix in all proportions.




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Question: How do you separate iron related material and a non-magnetic material in a mixture?

Answer: Use magnets. This is because iron is a magnetic material and it can be attracted to the magnet while the non-magnetic material can't. So therefore, the iron can be separated fron the non-magnetic material.

Question: When a solid is dissolved in water you can separate the two by?

Answer: You can separate them by evaporating the water. Once all the water has evaporated, the solid would 'emerge'. We can also use filration.

Question: Separate solid that cannot dissolve in liquid.

Answer: There's serveral methods for this one. If the solid is magnetic, we can use a magnet to separate the solid from the liquid. If not, we could use a filter. Distillation is fine too. We can also evaporate the water, leaving the solid behind.

Question: Separate Liquid and Liquid.

Answer: We can use distillation and fractional distillation.

Question: Air and petroleum?

Answer: Use fractional distillation or distillation because both of them have different boiling points.
















references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscible

Chemistry- 16
There are different types of purification/ separation methods to separate mixtures:



-Filtration

-Using Magnets

-Distillation

-Fractional distillation

-Evaporation to Dryness

-Crystallisation

-Paper Chromotography

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*I will only blog on some points*

Filtration:







Filtration is a technique used either to remove impurities from an organic solution or to isolate an organic solid. The two types of filtration commonly used in organic chemistry laboratories are gravity filtration and vacuum or suction filtration.




















A solid which has not dissolved in a liquid can be separated by filtration.A filter paper is placed inside a glass funnel and a container put beneath.



The solid remaining in the filter paper is called the residue.The residue can be dried by spreading it out on the filter paperand allowing the liquid to evaporate.The liquid which has passed through the filter paper is called the filtrate.







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Distillation:





Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction.






































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Fractional Distillation:













Fractional distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions, such as in separating chemical compounds by their boiling point by heating them to a temperature at which several fractions of the compound will evaporate. It is a special type of distillation. Generally the component parts boil at less than 25 °C from each other under a pressure of one atmosphere (atm). If the difference in boiling points is greater than 25 °C, a simple distillation is used.






























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Crystallisation:





Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystals precipitating from a solution, melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas. Crystallization is also a chemical solid-liquid separation technique, in which mass transfer of a solute from the liquid solution to a pure solid crystalline phase occurs.





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Paper Chromotography:






Chromatography is used to separate mixtures of substances into their components. All forms of chromatography work on the same principle.













































references: http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/filt/filtration.html

http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gcsescience.com/Filtration.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.gcsescience.com/e5-filter-paper.htm&usg=__fWR6KhCb2IXvMWvLy5V_QliKB2Y=&h=270&w=250&sz=4&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=8Dyol0RaENwNLM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3DFiltration%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_distillation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/chromatography/paper.html

Chemistry- 15
We learnt about different types of mixtures today in class.

Basically mixtures can be made up of these following combination:

- Solid + Solid
- Solid+ Liquid
- Solid + Gas
- Liquid + Liquid
- Liquid + Gas
- Gas + Gas
- Solid + Liquid + Gas


An example of Solid + Liquid + Gas is---> Petroleum.

An example of Gas + Gas---> The composition of the air around us.

An example of Liquid + Gas---> Coke and CO2( I'm not sure if this is)

An example of Liquid + Liquid---> Milk + oil

An example of Solid + Gas-->A hydrate such as methane and water at high pressures and low temperatures.

An example of Solid + Liquid---> Salt Water

An example of Solid + Solid---> concrete

Chemistry- 14
INFORMATION ON BRASS:


Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties. In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. Despite this distinction, some types of brasses are called bronzes. Brass is a substitutional alloy.




Uses of brass:


- Used for decoration because of their bright gold colour appearance.

- Used where low friction is needed: doorknob, ammunition, valves.

- Musical intruments: horns and bells for acoustic purposes.

- It is also used in zippers.



The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for brass musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, euphonium,tenor horn and the French horn.




Chemistry- 13
Our class did some experiments with mentos and different soft drinks.
And of course, the coke(:

I managed to snap so videos but not all. --->


I'll post the other 2 videos the next time. (:


Chemistry- 12
Compounds

<- polar compounds.

According to wikipedia, compounds are pure chemical substances consisting of two or more different chemical elements that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that have a unique and defined chemical structure. Chemical compounds consist of a fixed ratio of atoms that are hold together in a defined spatial arrangement by chemical bonds. Chemical compounds can be compound molecules hold together by covalent bonds, salts hold together by ionic bonds, metallic compounds hold together by metallic bonds, and complexes hold together by coordinat covalent bonds. Substances such as pure chemical elements and elemental molecules consisting of only a single atom type are not considered chemical compounds.





Chemistry- 11
Question: Are there Periodic tables in different language?

There are! (:
These are some of the periodic table which are in different language as ours.


Periodic Table of the Elephants?




--> regarding the periodic table of the elephants, the pictures in there are the same as the elements in the 'normal' periodic table. <---- (:
The pictures are the replacement for the words.(:

Traditional Chinese Periodic Table
*Click to enlarge*
--> etc. (:

Chemistry- 10
What is benzene ?





According to wikipedia,





Benzene, or benzol, is an organic chemical compound and a known carcinogen with the molecular formula C6H6. It is sometimes abbreviated Ph–H. Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid with a sweet smell and a relatively high melting point. Because it is a known carcinogen, its use as an additive in gasoline is now limited, but it is an important industrial solvent and precursor in the production of drugs, plastics, synthetic rubber, and dyes. Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil, and may be synthesized from other compounds present in petroleum. Benzene is an aromatic hydrocarbon and the second [n]-annulene ([6]-annulene), a cyclic hydrocarbon with a continuous pi bond.



reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
Image source: http://www.amacad.org/images/benzene.gif

Chemistry- 9









Since there's allotrope for carbon, I thought there must be allotrope for metal etc.
Guess what? There are allotrope for oxygen, sulphur, silicon, tin and many more.

Allotrope of iron:

Iron represents perhaps the best-known example for allotropy in a metal. There are three allotropic forms of iron, known as alpha, gamma, and delta.
As molten iron cools down it crystallises at 1538°C into its delta allotrope, which has a body-centred cubic (BCC) crystal structure[1]. As it cools further its crystal structure changes to face centred cubic (FCC) at 1394°C, when it is known as gamma-iron, or austenite. At 912°C the crystal structure again becomes BCC as alpha-iron also known as ferrite, is formed, and at 770°C (the Curie point, Tc ) the iron becomes magnetic as alpha-iron, which is also BCC, is formed.


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_iron
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Allotrope of sulphur:

Sulphur is found widely distributed in earth's crust. It is found in vast underground beds of 99.8% pure uncombined sulphur and in many sulphide minerals such as galena,pyrite ,sphalesite and various calcium, magnesium and other sulphates.Sulphur is also present in organic compounds.It is found in animals and vegetables such as onion, garlic, mustard, eggs, proteins etc. Sulphur also occurs along with hydrocarbons such as coal and petroleum.

There are 3 allotropic forms of sulphur:
1)monoclinic
2)plastic
3)rhombic

source: http://www.blurtit.com/q175417.html

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Allotropes of phosphorus:




Elemental phosphorus can exist in several allotropes; the most common of which are white and red. There are also violet and black phosphorus, and gaseous diphosphorus.
<- white phosphorus structure.



-->White phosphorus, or yellow phosphorus, or simply tetraphosphorus (P4) exists as individual molecules made up of four atoms in a tetrahedral arrangement, resulting in very high ring strain and instability. It contains 6 single bonds.
<-- red phosphorus structure.


-->Red phosphorus may be formed by heating white phosphorus to 250°C (482°F) or by exposing white phosphorus to sunlight. Phosphorus after this treatment exists as an amorphous network of atoms which reduces strain and gives greater stability; further heating results in the red phosphorus becoming crystalline. Red phosphorus does not catch fire in air at temperatures below 240°C, whereas white phosphorus ignites at about 30°C.

Chemistry- 8

The allotropes of carbon are the different molecular configurations (allotropes) that pure carbon can take.


Following is a list of the allotropes of carbon, ordered by notability, and extent of industrial use.


1) The most common carbon allotrope is Diamond.

2) Graphite

3) Amorphous carbon

4) Fullerenes

5) Carbon nanotubes

6) Aggregated diamond nanorods

7) Glassy carbon

8) Carbon nanofoam

9) Lonsdaleite

10) Chaoite





Some information about the above allotropes:


1) Diamond is one of the best known allotropes of carbon, whose hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial applications and jewelry. Diamond is the hardest known natural mineral, making it an excellent abrasive and also means a diamond holds its polish extremely well and retains luster.
2) Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek γραφειν: "to draw/write", for its use in pencils) is one of the most common allotropes of carbon. Unlike diamond, graphite is a conductor, and can be used, for instance, as the material in the electrodes of an electrical arc lamp. Graphite holds the distinction of being the most stable form of solid carbon ever discovered.
Graphite is able to conduct electricity due to the unpaired fourth electron in each carbon atom. This unpaired 4th electron forms delocalised
planes above and below the planes of the carbon atoms. These electrons are free to move, so are able to conduct electricity. However, the electricity is only conducted within the plane of the layers.
3) Amorphous carbon is the name used for carbon that does not have any crystalline structure. As with all glassy materials, some short-range order can be observed, but there is no long-range pattern of atomic positions.
4) The fullerenes are recently-discovered allotropes of carbon named after the scientist and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, but were discovered in 1985 by a team of scientists from Rice University and the University of Sussex, three of whom were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, which take the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical fullerenes are sometimes called buckyballs, while cylindrical fullerenes are called buckytubes or nanotubes.
5) Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules with novel properties that make them potentially useful in a wide variety of applications (e.g., nano-electronics, optics, materials applications, etc.). They exhibit extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties, and are efficient conductors of heat. Inorganic nanotubes have also been synthesized.
6) Aggregated diamond nanorods, or ADNRs, are an allotrope of carbon believed to be the least compressible material known to humankind, as measured by its isothermal bulk modulus; aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), while a conventional diamond has a modulus of 442 GPa. ADNRs are also 0.3% denser than regular diamond. The ADNR material is also harder than type IIa diamond and ultrahard fullerite.
7) Glassy carbon is a class of non-graphitizing carbon which is widely used as an electrode material in electrochemistry, as well as for high temperature crucibles and as a component of some prosthetic devices. It was first produced by workers at the laboratories of The Genera Electric Company, UK, in the early 1960s, using cellulose as the starting material.
8) Carbon nanofoam is the fifth known allotrope of carbon discovered in 1997 by Andrei V. Rode and co-workers at the Australian National University in Canberra. It consists of a low-density cluster-assembly of carbon atoms strung together in a loose three-dimensional web.
9) Lonsdaleite is a hexagonal allotrope of the carbon allotrope diamond, believed to form when meteoric graphite falls to Earth. The great heat and stress of the impact transforms the graphite into diamond, but retains graphite's hexagonal crystal lattice.
10) Chaoite is a mineral believed to have been formed in meteorite impacts. It has been described as slightly harder than graphite with a reflection colour of grey to white. However, the existence of carbyne phases is disputed – see the entry on chaoite for details.



MORE!

Between diamond and graphite
Diamond is hardest mineral known to man (10 on Mohs scale), but graphite is one of the softest (1 - 2 on Mohs scale).
Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, but graphite is a very good lubricant.
Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator, but graphite is a conductor of electricity.
Diamond is usually transparent, but graphite is opaque.
Diamond crystallizes in the
isometric system but graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system.

Between amorphous carbon and nanotubes
Amorphous carbon is among the easiest materials to synthesize, but carbon nanotubes are extremely expensive to make.
Amorphous carbon is completely
isotropic, but carbon nanotubes are among the most anisotropic materials ever produced.


References:http://www.nanoscienceworks.org/nanopedia/carbon-allotropes
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/chem20/networks/diamond.html
Image: http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Images/CarbonAllotropes.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Book-GlossaryC.html&usg=__w3wXhEddDmMvrfyUPTz8agoELq8=&h=493&w=458&sz=87&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=gsf-uHGLWktWvM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarbon%2Ballotropes%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

Chemistry- 7
About the periodic table:

In Ancient Greece, the influential Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed that there were four main elements: air, fire, earth and water. All of these elements could be reacted to create another one; e.g., earth and fire combined to form lava. However, this theory was dismissed when the real chemical elements started being discovered. Scientists needed an easily accessible, well organized database with which information about the elements could be recorded and accessed. This was to be known as the periodic table.
The original table was created before the discovery of subatomic particles or the formulation of current quantum mechanical theories of atomic structure. If one orders the elements by atomic mass, and then plots certain other properties against atomic mass, one sees an undulation or periodicity to these properties as a function of atomic mass. The first to recognize these regularities was the German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner who, in 1829, noticed a In 1829 Döbereiner proposed the Law of Triads: The middle element in the triad had atomic weight that was the average of the other two members. The densities of some triads followed a similar pattern. Soon other scientists found chemical relationships extended beyond triads. Fluorine was added to Cl/Br/I group; sulfur, oxygen, selenium and tellurium were grouped into a family; nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth were classified as another group.


Above is just an abstract from wikipedia:
For more information about the periodic table,
please go to--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

Chemistry- 6
How do scientist know that we've discovered all the elements in/on earth?
*Just an extra information: There are 110 elements on Earth to date.*

Answer:

Elements are defined by the number of protons they have in their nucleus. Hydrogen, for example has just 1, while uranium has 92 protons. 91 elements have been found to occur naturally on Earth (technitium is radioactive with a short half life, and does not occur in nature). In addition to these, scientists have created up to element 118. All the elements from 93 on up are radioactive and most exist for vey short spans of time. As nuclei get larger, they get more unstable, so "unknown" elements are not going to be found occuring in nature.In addition, we can measure, from the force of the planet's gravity, the density of the core, and find it corresponds to iron and nickel, not to higher elements to any degree.

source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080320200920AA1lpZm


Chemistry- 5
What is a dependent variable and what is independent variable?

Dependent variable is the result of the change. Dependent variables means it depends on the independent variable.

Independent variable is the variable that we change doing an experiment. E.g. When we say the more the light, the more amount of oxygen produced by the green plant.

In this context, we say that light is the independent variable while the amount of the oxygen produced is the dependent variable.

Explanation:
We all know that green plants need light to photosynthesise. So, when we have more light, the more the oxygen is being produced. When we have lesser light, the lesser the amount of oxygen the green plant would produce. From this explanation, we can clearly see which is the independent and dependent variable(:

Chemistry- 4
Miss Liang talked about putting mentos in coke.
Here's a video that shows the outcome:




I wonder why the mentos would react in this way....