The Cartoon Guide To Chemistry by Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle is a non- fiction book that is part of the famous cartoon history series created by Larry Gonick. It is a black and white comic book that includes all main topics of chemistry taught in high school and college. The HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. published this book in 2005. This two hundred and fifty pages book explains the history and basics of chemistry through funny illustrations and appealing graphics. The books start off with the basic concepts then gradually ends with complex topics like organic chemistry. Gonick and Criddle also used dialogues between different characters in the book to get the attention of students more effectively than a normal chemistry textbook.
In the beginning, the authors’ talks about how it all started with fire. A philosopher named Heraclitus suggested that everything was made out of fire. Fire was the first chemical reaction that impressed our ancestors. However, Aristotle said that everything was composed of four basic elements and other things were just the blend of these elements. The elements were air, earth, fire, and water. Both of their theories were completely wrong. Then scientists started learning about gases. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) created reactions by using a sealed flask connected by a tube to upside bottle of liquid. The reaction would form gases that would bubble through the liquid. While in France a scientist named Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) was doing a very similar experiment that helped him developed the law of conservation of matter, which is nothing can be created or destroyed; all elements are just rearranged in new combinations. He also said that air and fire was not an element. Lavoisier explains air...
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... me. Some of the cartoons were very funny and interesting so I will probably never forget them. It showed me that learning chemistry does not always have to boring and unexciting. The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry presented all this information in a diverse and striking way. Most people think that children book can only consist of many pictures and little words. However, this book proves them wrong because it is surely well formed even though it is mostly cartoons. Overall the book is not perfect but it is still good. Reading this book did benefit me in so many ways. It helped me grasp the concepts of chemistry much easier and taught me things I did not know before. Chemistry is absolutely not a simple subject; it is fill with tons of complicated topics but the more we learned about chemistry the more we understand how the things surrounding us are the way they are.
Before early humans discovered fire, they most likely observed forest fires in order to come up with the idea. Applying the idea that fire is hot, they probably realized that rubbing two sticks together also makes them hot, therefor creating fire [2]. Electricity was created the same way. The Ancient Romans observed that rubbing fur against tree sap generated static electricity. They then went on to create one of the earliest batteries known to mankind [3]. Benjamin Franklin also proved that lightning is a form of electricity when he flew a kite with a key attached to it during a lightning storm [3]. In the play, Picasso and Einstein both explain how they get ideas when they occasionally pop into their heads. All they have to do is write them down [1]. All of those ideas came from observation at one point or another. When the Visitor appears in the story, he talks briefly about how he writes and performs songs about love. He most likely got inspiration from love itself, all of that happening 50 years after Picasso and Einstein [1]. Therefore, every kind of idea is created the same
Primo Levi’s personal relationship to his profession as a chemist shows that philosophically and psychologically, he is deeply invested in it. His book THe PeriOdic TaBLe shows that his methodology cannot be classified as either purely objective or purely subjective. He fits into the definition of dynamic objectivity given by Evelyn Fox Keller in her book Reflections on Gender and Science.
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In the 18th century, scientists were strongly influenced by theories. In 350 B.C., Aristotle believed that everything was made from fire, earth, air and water. There later was a Greek physician named Galen. He practiced about 500 years after Aristotle. Galen believed that the body had four elements which he called humors. The four humors were: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. When all four elements were balanced, then the body was healthy. If the body seemed like the elements were not balanced, he would balance it by drawing the patient’s blood, or making them vomit.
This chemistry book report is focus on a book called “Napoleon's buttons: How 17 molecules changed history” by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson. The publisher of this book is Tarcher Putnam, the book was published in Canada on 2003 with 17 chapters (hey the number match the title of the book!) and a total of 378 pages. The genre of this book is nonfiction. “Napoleon's Buttons” contain a fascinating story of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly changed the course of history and continuing affect the world we live in today. It also reveal the astonishing chemical connection among some unrelated events, for example: Chemistry caused New Amsterdamers to be renamed New Yorkers and one little accident of detonating cotton apron in a minor housekeeping mishap lead to the development of modern explosives and the founding of the movie industry.
As the universe started to cool, fundamental particles called quarks began to smash together forming protons and neutrons. They, in turn, merged to create the nuclei of simple elements, beginning with hydrogen, helium, and lithium. This primordial soup contained the building blocks for everything in the universe. Voilà, the universe was born.
Although it was not the most exciting book I read, it's one of the best ones I have ever had to read for a class. The book was filled with great lessons that were contained in the stories of the lives of various individuals. Some of these were stories are more well known, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycotts with Rosa Parks, whereas others told the story of prominent advertising executive Claude C. Hopkins, and his adventures promoting various products. Just a few that were discussed include Pepsodent (the first major toothpaste), Febreze, Marlboro, Quaker Oats, Goodyear tires, the Bissell carpet sweeper, Van Camp’s pork and beans, and others. This was one section that particularly interested me, as it had a lot of crossover with what I’ve learned about and enjoyed in my telecommunications sales and promotion classes, as I plan to go into advertising and demographics work.
(bethinking.org) Life demands a certain chemistry. The information that makes up any living being is stored on a long molecule called DNA. (answeringenesis.org) If the laws of chemistry were different life as we know it would not be possible. The question of how the universe came to be as it is and how we as humans came about often resonates deeply, particularly with scientists. Many conversations between scientist Christians and other scientists about God and Christ end up considering biological evolution or the Big Bang. Chemistry’s contribution to the story of our origins the transformation of inanimate matter into the first living organisms is much less well understood than other areas of our origins. However, many parts of the process are increasingly understood and we may eventually know the molecular details of the origin of life. As Christians, we need to think through how we would respond to a developed theory in this area.
Many companies all over the world produce chemicals for their products that are harmful to the environment, human health, and to all living species. Green Chemistry is the use of chemistry for the prevention of chemical pollution to the environment by using chemicals that are benign, or not harmful. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that the mission of Green Chemistry is, “To promote innovative chemical technologies that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture, and use of chemical products.” Green Chemistry contains any aspects and types of chemical processes that reduce the negative effects of certain chemicals, in a way, using chemistry to fight chemistry.
Chemistry 1A03 is a discussion of chemical fundamentals, including bonding, structure, reactivity and energetics, with emphasis on applications to health, energy and the environment. The typical week for chemistry starts on Mondays where I watch online modules covering the information in the weekly lectures. Before the lectures but after watching the modules, an online quiz is due at midnight every Tuesday must be completed. Some may find this structure for learning odd however, it helps hone my time management skills as the deadline for the weekly quizzes is rather rigid. Furthermore, the quizzes force me to learn the material and mitigates the effects of procrastination. Procrastination is the bane of my success and leads me to cram my learning.
The novel “Alchemist’’ was very successful novel and it achieved commercial success as well. The author of the novel was Paulo Coelho, who is a Brazilian novelist and also a numerous for an international awards and Crystal Award.Paulo Coelho needed someone to publish his novel, so he got a big publisher named Rocco, to get his book publish and his next book as well. The novel ‘’ Alchemist’’ was the top seller in Brazilian at that time. The book The Alchemist was there an expression book, the theme to the book would be always follow your dream in the sense that there is a higher being pushing you towards that dream. And sometimes you may run across the bridge that you can cross but you would have to rebuild the bridge so you can cross that off turning back because you cannot cross the broken bridge.
From the unit of chemistry in grade ten science, the students have learned many things from different types of elements in the chart all the way to how each element impacts the daily life each student or even adult lives in. Some of the things I as a student have learned include how to draw the different elements in a bohr rutherford diagram, balancing chemical equations, types of chemical reactions, and even information about the different types of acids and bases. Although there were many other things in the unit, these four definately helped me learn about chemistry in a more in-depth way, as well as teaching me something very new since these were some things a few of the students had never done in the previous years. Learning this in the classroom has really opened my eyes to the world in which we live in today, many times I leave the house on a cold day and as I look upon the cold water becoming ice or even the snow falling down, I know how it is happening, why it is happening, and I can even picture the molecules solidifying as we had seen in class with many different diagrams.
During laboratory technique 1 we learned how to separate insoluble liquids from solids by means of filtration, and how to separate a dissolved solid from a liquid by means of evaporation. I have often asked myself the importance of some of the required classes in my schedule and how they can relate to everyday life. I believe in the saying that if you don’t use it you will lose it, meaning that if the concepts I learn cannot be applied to something that I will remember on a daily basis then the possibilities of me not remembering them at all are greater. This is especially true if you’re not a science or medical major as I am not.
• A second principle, which concretises the beginning of the universe, is the second law of thermodynamics. As I quote the cosmologist Sir Arthur Eddington, said,