Chemistry Project

Chemistry 1

Introducing the idea that chemistry is instrumental in the development and improvement of many of the products we use every day.

Sanchit Bhagat

CHEM – 1405- 61500

Professor Stephen Budy

Mountain View College

DATE

Introducing the idea that chemistry is instrumental in the development and improvement of many of the products we use every day Comment by SBudy: Overall, nice Introduction, but it has a lot of statements but not an overall cohesive topic. Maybe you can choose a couple and talk about how they are related or find a way to bring them all together.

In many of the products that we use every day, most of them are made of chemicals. Chemistry is the fundamental backbone of all the living, as well as non-living things. A major part of our daily life is chemistry. In daily life we find chemistry in food we eat, the air we breathe, washroom soap, even the water we drink and literally everything we can see or touch. Here are a few examples of daily chemistry. Chemistry is important in our daily life because all products of our daily life use organic or inorganic substances which are manufactured from chemical substances. Whether it’s our office or paper we write on. The sun and the moon, the stars and the whole galaxy is made of chemicals. The medicines we take are chemicals. We use different processes and instrumentation to enhance its stability in the body. Our food is also a part of chemistry, specifically organic chemistry. We enhance the taste of the food we eat by adding more name of abbreviation? (NaCcl) and spices to it which contain different volatile components. Chemical response is responsible for many of the changes you observe in the world around you. Examples include changing leaf colours, food cooking and cleaning. Have you ever tried to think about why a certain plant has a specific colour and flavour? The sunlight was established as a white ray of light and some are absorbed when it impacts on an object while others are reflected. The green color of the plants is caused by a chemical compound called chloroplasts that absorbs all wavelengths and reflects the green light. Similarly, a chemical compound called lycopene is used to evaluate the Red red colour of tomatoes. Different emotions are the result of chemical messengers, i.e. neurotransmitters, which we feel. It is easily observed that chemical science is so interconnected with the unknown and repetitive phenomena occurring in our daily lives. Hundreds of pages can be written containing the chemical miracles that exist every day in our lives. Soap we use to enhance our beauty is a chemical composition of sodium or potassium chloride in higher carboxylic acids, for example, stearic acid, palmitic acid, and oleic acid. Detergents can also operate in rough water similar to soaps. For thousands of years, mankind has chewed or eaten herbal extract drugs to get rid of infections and pains. In the mid-1800s, chemists discovered that salicylic acid was present in the willow tree bark. In 1899, aspirin was made from salicylic acid by Bayer, Germany. The more we ignore chemistry the more we get involved in it. Comment by SBudy: We don’t usually use “we, you, I, us, our” in science writing. It is being used more and more nowadays but traditionally we try not to use it. I have published papers where I have used it, but I still try not to. Comment by SBudy: Also, we try to write out “it is” and “do not” etc.

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