Space exploration has been apart of United States history since the early 1960’s, and has over time created multiple technological innovations that have impacted society beneficially. These extraordinary innovations include advancements such as virtual reality allowing students to explore the surface of Mars, or our solar system in it’s entirety, and medical advancements that will allow the human life to live longer than ever before. The list of beneficial achievements continues to grow everyday…
Magnesium Chloride as a Deicer Emily Lekah Fall 2015 CHEM 1066 October 15, 2015 University of Minnesota Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate magnesium chloride as a deicer. To be a good deicer, a salt must be able to lower the enthalpy when is mixed with water. This will cause an exothermic reaction and release heat. This experiment had three tests performed within it, The freezing point depression, the enthalpy of dissolution, and finding…
Motivation to Pursue Science: From the time that I was in the fourth grade, I knew the career path that I wanted to pursue. At a young age, I was inspired by roller coasters, so much in fact that I was often get scolded for doodling them in my notebooks during class time. I think that a lot of my inspiration had to do with my mother because I will never forget the morning that she woke me up to go to Hershey Park. My whole family was “playing hooky” that day and she had such excitement in her…
The concrete is the second most used product world-wide after water. The construction industry is one of the vital sectors in the nation’s economy. The concrete mainly contains ordinary Portland cement as a primary binder and production of ordinary Portland cement causes 7% of the total greenhouse gases in to the earth’s atmosphere (Malhotra 2002) and production of the ordinary Portland cement produces carbon-di-oxide in mainly two ways , they are burning of fossil fuels and the other is…