Chemical elements

The chemical Mercury, symbolized as Hg, is an element most prominently found as a solid metal throughout Earth’s surface. It is a naturally occurring element found in Earth’s soil, water and air. To name a few examples of how Mercury is created, there are forest fires and volcanic eruptions whose combustion creates Mercury. In addition, humans also create Mercury through incinerators used in power plants. Mercury is known to be very poisonous to humans and affects many organisms ranging from…

Cast Iron is processed to remove impurities or slag and is turned into a steel alloy. Therefore steel is an alloy and Iron is an element. Steel is also called as an alloy of iron, with the content of carbon controlled. 4% of carbon in Iron makes it Cast Iron and when the carbon content is less than 2%, the product is steel. Cast Iron is made from pig iron, which is the by-product of…

That being said I wanted to learn more about silicon and what people are putting in their bodies. Silicon is an element a pure substance that can’t be broken down. Silicon was first discovered in 1824 by a Swedish chemist named Jons Jacob Berzelius. This element is the second most abundant and it makes up about 27.7% of the earth’s crust. Although silicon is the second most abundant element, and it can’t be found free in nature. Silicon is usually found as silica or silicates. In order to…

Utilizing our comprehension of the arrangement of the elements in the periodic table (the way elements with common traits are grouped together), we will determine the name and location of each unknown element by clustering said elements with other known elements that they share the most characteristics with. In this lab we will momentarily fill the shoes of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who was the first to observe the patterns between elements arranged according to their properties. His…

most interesting. After doing some research on the boom I found that it had great reviews online, and was one of the top ten most recommended books in the chemistry genre. This book caught my attention because it gave a brief history of many of the elements, and I was keen to learn how to incorporate chemistry into my daily life. Synopsis- The Disappearing Spoon starts off with an introduction in which Sam Kean narrates how he fell in love with the science of chemistry, because as a child he…

and Overview Elements are the substances that make up everything in the universe, known and unknown. This means that elements are what make up matter, and everything you see, hear and touch. There are 118 elements known to man, some that you may know include gold, iron and oxygen. Each of these have distinguishing qualities and they come in 3 different states of matter, solid, liquid and gas. Some of these are man-made but most have been discovered. The things that make each element have a…

lake or ocean as a combination of chemicals created amino acids, and from there life evolved. A Russian chemist named A.I. oprin and an English geneticist named J.B.S. Haldane came up with this theory in 1920. to test this theory they collected and mixed elements thought to be on earth at the time and sparked the mixture with electricity, The experiment resulted in the creation of amino acids. The reasoning was that life formed because of a mixture of chemicals and the atmosphere. Iron sulfur…

the name of Johann August Arfvedson discovered a new element called lithium while he was working with a mineral petalite (Jefferson Lab Web). However, even though this element was found by Arfvedson, William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphrey Davy were the first people to isolate it (Jefferson Lab Web). Lithium is very abundant, it is a soft silver white alkali metal with the atomic number of three. Lithium is silver and contains no odor (Element Project). In addition to those features, lithium…

– equation (2 gives info on location of electron in terms of probability density - wave functions are called orbitals – [pic], where E is energy, e2 is electric potential, r is orbital radius and h is Planck’s constant 1925 Wolfgang Pauli – each orbital has only 2 electrons is now explained due to direction of spin of electrons. Spinning electrons create magnetic field. Only 2 electrons of opposite spin in an orbital referred to as Pauli exclusion principle Hund’s rule – half fill…

The element that I choose for this project is called Strontium. Strontium is a chemical element with the symbol (Sr) and it has atomic number of 38. It is an alkaline earth metal, and is a soft white yellowish metallic element which has highly reactivity chemically. It’s properties are mostly intermediate between aand similar to those of its group neighbors calcium and barium. When it is exposed to air, the metal forms a dark oxide layer. Strontium has 38 protons, 50 neutrons, and 38 electrons.…