perfect than gold, it was reasonable to believe that nature created gold out of other metals found deep within the earth and that a skilled artisan could duplicate this process. It was said that once someone was able to change, or transmute a "base" chemical into the perfect metal, gold, they would have achieved eternal life and salvation. In this way, alchemy turned into not only a scientific quest, but a spiritual quest as well. Although the purposes and techniques were often times ritualistic and
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Blood agents are poisons that act on the body by being consumed into the blood (http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/blood/). There are three known blood agents as identified by the Center for Disease Control: Arsine (SA), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Cyanide, and Sodium monofluoroacetate (compound 1080). I will attempt to discuss in detail how each blood agent enters the body and effects the human body. Blood agents extract from its effect on exposed victims. Blood agents generally enters the body by
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Michaelis-Menten Kinetics: The Enzyme-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Sucrose1 Background Of the numerous chemical reactions whose kinetics have been studied, some of the most interesting and complex are those which take place in living organisms. These reactions, when studied under non-biological conditions (lack of organisms and their various biomolecules), are often exceptionally slow: often hours or days, and sometimes even years are required before equilibrium is reached. Yet life requires seconds
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Precipitation Lab Purpose: 1. Identify the ions present in various aqueous solutions. 2. Combine solutions and identify the reactions that form precipitates. 3. Write balanced molecular equation, complete ionic equation, and a net ionic equation for each precipitation reaction. Materials: • Small test tubes • Various solutions Procedure: 1. Add 10-15 drops of the each reactant to a test tube. 2. Observe the results when the two solutions are combined in the test tube. 3. Record your
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Solubility is the property of a solid, liquid, or gaseous chemical substance called solute to dissolve in a solid, liquid, or gaseous solvent to form a solution of the solute in the solvent Solubility is defined as the ability of one substance to dissolve within another substance. What Affects Solubility? One of the factors that has a profound impact on solubility is temperature. Temperature, a measure of the available thermal energy, can increase the solubility of solids in liquids. This phenomenon
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Ask most chemists who discovered the periodic table and you will almost certainly get the answer Dmitri Mendeleev. Certainly Mendeleev was the first to publish a version of the table that we would recognise today, but does he deserve all the credit? A number of other chemists before Mendeleev were investigating patterns in the properties of the elements that were known at the time. The earliest attempt to classify the elements was in 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier grouped the elements based on their
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Chemical Imbalance. It was a warm sunny summer day. James walked smiling down the street but slightly nervous as he was running a little late for an encounter with his blind date Rose, which he had looked forward to with anticipation. He had been set up by his good friends to go on a blind date. They thought it was about time, that he came back on the market after the breakup with his girlfriend, which he had been in a long-term relationship with. He wanted to look as good as possible,
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Chemistry “Chemical Reaction and the PH Scale” Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People have always known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the firsts to speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that it was possible that individual particles made up matter. As you might imagine, it's useful to be able to measure the acidity of solutions. Scientists have come up with the pH scale for determining the concentration of acid in a solution so we can distinguish
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Violating International Chemicals Ban In past decades the Middle East has been involved in a string of events ranging from diplomatic talks, alleged terrorists attacks, and war stricken countries. Recently, Syria has been accused of violating the International Chemicals Ban, which prohibits the use of chemical weapons during warfare. Amongst other things, many reports from the Middle East are confirming the suspicion of chemical attacks in Saraqeb, carried out by the Syrian government on unsuspecting
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asked if she has any idea what the chemicals are as they have been kept in an unlabelled bottle. I would then follow the acronym DRAB Danger: look around to see if there is any danger around, As the child is sat in a puddle of chemicals there is danger around there fore if the child is able to I would get him to walk away from the puddle into a clear area, however if he is either unable or refusing to move I would have to place obstructions over the chemicals so I could stand on top of them enabling
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