Essays on Chemistry

Eco-Friendly Funerals

The bodies of the dead have been a matter of great concern especially to the loved ones of the deceased. Various propositions have always been made on how they wanted the body of their own to be handled. For instance, cremating the dead was objected especially in the conservative London, Grainger, H. J. (2000). However with time, legislations changed and the practice was allowed. This paper tries to look keenly into the views people have on cremation, the benefits of cremating the dead and how it is ecologically relevant to do so. The paper will pay attention to the Continue reading...

Question 1)

According to Ede and Cormack, what was the impact of Napoleon's reign on the development of scientific and technical training in France?
Napoleon's reign included a refocusing to the education of the masses, including educating women. He centralized and standardized the education system with a focus on language. Napoleon believed in women’s education, to a point. He permitted the reestablishment of the Catholic elementary schools that educated boys and girls. Napoleon’s priority was secondary education however. In this area, he saw to standards not only for students but also for teachers and the curriculum. This was in Continue reading...

On the threshold of completing my Master’s degree in Chemical Sciences, I seek to take my research in organic chemistry to the next level. Having a PhD in organic chemistry would work on a positive note for me because it will help me in joining my efforts together along with the knowledge that I have gained until now. To build a heritage for the learning of chemistry, I would like to join McGill University. It is an institution that I have aspired to become a part of for as long as I have determined chemistry to be my Continue reading...

This article gives an elaboration of a science-minded junior called Daniel Nocera and his vision in the world of sustainable energy. The article shows that Nocera grew up in America when the oil prices were skyrocketing and the crash of the stock markets. The article elaborates the artificial leaf invented by Nocera with the use of the chemistry of photosynthesis. This innovation is useful and aims at solving the current energy problem which was facing the U.S.
The purpose of this article is to show clearly the way in which the way Nocera used the chemistry of knowledge in Continue reading...

I am writing in regards to my application for the PhD Chemistry program at McGill University. Having a major interest in Organic Chemistry I hereby wish to pursue my further studies at McGill University due to its global recognition as one of the TOP-ranked universities with a solid laboratory setting and extensive opportunities for the development of my research skills.
I believe that my previous achievements in the stated field of study can stoutly buttress my willingness to enroll in the program. Gaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry at King Faisal University gave me a thorough basic Continue reading...

If people look at my educational background and compare it to the program I am currently applying for, they have the tendency to look at my paper twice and wonder whether I am applying for the right program. You see, I have an undergraduate degree, a double major to be exact, in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. To make things even odd, I even pursued graduate studies for Chemistry. I was a promising young chemist who was fortunate to have published two researcher papers because of this I received a number of Ph.D offers. It was as if my future Continue reading...

The nursing curriculum can be extremely demanding, but the passion triumphs over the challenge. I aspired to become a pediatrician when I was younger, but I ended up studying chemistry at Belorussian State University and consequently became a chemistry teacher. I loved my teaching job, nonetheless. My biggest reward as a teacher was being my son’s chemistry teacher, and infusing in him a love of chemistry. My son is very enthusiastic and supportive of my endeavors to become a nurse. I believe I was an effective and knowledgeable teacher, and can as well make a compassionate and responsible Continue reading...

Ei-ichi Negeshi is a Nobel Prize winner in Organic Chemistry in 2010 for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic chemistry. The Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry that he won is being shared to his other colleagues Richard Heck and Akira Suziki. Ei-ichi Negeshi is a Japanese citizen that was born in China. They transferred to Seoul, North Korea and experienced most of his childhood days in Korea then later they transferred to Japan
Accordingly, Negeshi’s motivation in developing his self-discipline as a student happened when he experienced being in the123rd place in their classroom. He then realized that, Continue reading...

My fascination with Science, especially in Chemistry prompted me to pursue a career tract where I can utilize my love the subject. Incline with reflecting on both my personality and interest; I realized I wish to embark on a developing field such as Pharmacy. I believe that my field of choice will soon introduce breakthrough in the field of medicine and will bring positive results to society. I find working in this field inspiring and challenging. As a person, I am always looking at every chance I get to stretch my capabilities beyond my personal limitations.
My decision to Continue reading...

Abstract

The primary aim of anticancer therapies is to induce the death of tumor cells. Cisplatin has done a good job in achieving this aim, which explains why it is the most commonly used adjuvant therapy of cancers. However, the success of applying CDDP and any other platinum compounds for cancer chemotherapy depends enormously on the ability to manage its side effects. This paper reviews the studies and literatures on cisplatin and some other similar platinum compounds. It presents its history and background, chemistry, mechanism of activity, as well as the side effects.

Introduction

The cisplatin has been described as a Continue reading...

The purpose of the survey is to ascertain whether counseling for patients effect on their medicine adherence. The population of my interest is patients who are on medication. For the purpose of my survey, the sample is sourced from patients who come to get their medicine supply from Right Aid Pharmacy in the Bronx on Eastchester Road . This makes my sample a non-randomized convenience sample. The choice of the population as those under medication is objective in my study. The rationale is that the population is diverse as it consists of both male and female and the ages are Continue reading...

Chemistry has had a major impact in the world. This paper examines the importance of chemistry, and the jobs that a person that has a chemistry major can be able to perform.
Chemistry has shaped the past of human beings. In fact, it has helped people to understand what air is, the general understanding about atoms as well as an understanding of how matter changes. It is imperative to understand that without chemistry, modern medicine would not have been achieved and diseases would be running riot by the 17th century, the modern chemistry had started to take shape, the Continue reading...

While a culture exists for a country, it can also exist for almost any organized and ongoing situations. Mostly a teacher governs culture in a class. They set the rules and the environment, but a class culture emerges independently of a particular teacher and students, and area of study affect the outcome of a class culture. This essay looks at the cultures of three of my class and compares and contrasts the differences of various classes. Names identifying the teachers of the classes have been changed for their protection.
The teacher did not laydown any formal rules for the Continue reading...

Introduction

Chemistry is one of the branches of science.it deals with reactions of substances. Chemistry is one of the most challenging subjects in the school curriculum. Most students tend to believe that chemistry is cheap due to its simplicity in mixing and analyzing results. Personally, chemistry is too overwhelming but I have learnt some of the necessary skills that can be used to bolster my performance. It can be discussed as follows;

Develop the Right Attitude

Chemistry just like other subjects is as easy as one might think. Having the right attitude towards this subject forms the basis of excelling in it. The perception Continue reading...

Scientists are concerned about the lack of student interest in studying science (Dillon & Manning, n.d.). Researchers have conducted various studies. They have determined that the influence of teachers, curriculum, and classroom environment has an impact on student interest. This literature review describes current research regarding this dilemma as well as some recommendations. According to authors Dillon and Manning, “science teachers are made, not born”. This is very important to consider as it speaks loudly about a teacher wanting to teach science. It is better for students to learn science from a teacher that wants to share their scientific knowledge ( Continue reading...

Waste reduction and limination strategy of Nike

The company reduces its waste by reducing the kinds of toxic chemicals that are used in its value chain. The company has dveloped two types of environmental friendly rubber. It has two versions with the first version targeting the most toxic chemical compared to a typical formulation of rubber. The company shares the patent for the version with the industry in which it operates through the use of GreenXchange. The second version is built on the advancement of version 1, which reduces total zinc content by 80% and the reachable zinc content by greater than 90%. Also, Nike has Continue reading...

Compare and contrast advantages and disadvantages of two different analyzers

Chemistry analyzers are very important in the clinical field since they are used by analyzers in measuring technologies that relates to photometric and colorimetric testing. More importantly, they are also used to analyze samples of blood serum, plasma and also the urine to ascertain the identity of different people in case of any casualty. Normally the labs are used to provide efficient work flow and efficiency. The lab analyzers do provide adequate reliability since some are automated and reduces any form of manual work any hence faster in delivery. The equipment will enhance the performance and the delivery of Continue reading...

Part 1: Challenges of making direct measurements

Physical science is often viewed as the model of sound knowledge. Physical science represents a body of knowledge that has verifiable information. Physical science concept represents knowledge which has resulted after research and experiments on different scientific theories. During the development of such knowledge, measurements are made. Challenges in measurement are often related to the efficacy of the measuring tools being used. Challenges in measurement are as a result of lack of a direct method of measuring.
In astronomy, the scientists face a number of challenges such as measuring the distance between stars, the mass, and components making up Continue reading...

Lloyd Augustus Hall

Lloyd Augustus Hall’s contribution to science largely involves food preservation. Lloyd’s interest in food chemistry, a new area of chemistry, started while working at Boher Chemical Laboratory. Before his inventions, table salt (sodium chloride) was used as the major food preservative especially in preserving meat (Wilson and Jane, 34). However, table salt was not effective enough, as meat could only be preserved in a short period using this technique. Following various experiments, Lloyd came up with “flash-drying” technique as an alternative to table salt preservation. The technique involved a combination of sodium nitrate crystals and nitrite and Continue reading...

There have been few people that have matched up to the scientific know how of the Curie family. The Curie family has received the most Nobel Prizes in history. Marie Curie, the matriarch of the family, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two separate fields of science. Her accomplishments include describing the theory of “radioactivity” as well as coining the term; she also discovered to elements, polonium and radium. The theories of radioactivity helped during World War I where she assisted on the front lines Continue reading...

Organization

Nicolas Leblanc, in 1791, gave the world a chemical compound which revolutionized food products, Sodium Bicarbonate. More commonly known as baking soda, this base has become an integral substance found in almost every household. Leblanc, a surgeon and private physician, was striving to make ends meet for his family when he heard about the prize offered by the French Academy of Science to anybody who can develop a process for producing soda ash from salt. The prize finally went to Leblanc, who had come up with the Leblanc process, which developed baking soda from seas salt and sulfuric acid. Continue reading...

In chemistry, a hypothesis is a means to help explain phenomena. It is an idea that might explain why something happens. In contrast a theory in chemistry refers to testing this hypothesis by trying to determine what is true about a phenomena. 
A hypothesis is used to test why something happens. This is used to help develop the theory. The theory is based upon the truths discovered by testing the hypothesis. A law includes the entire collection of observations. Laws explain things but does not describe them differentiating them from a theory (Lastrucci, 1963) . The scientific process is a Continue reading...

Introduction

The founder of the Nobel price, Alfred Nobel was a distinguished scientist and investor. He owned a variety of firms that produced goods ranging from weapons to edibles. Thus chemistry was his field of study and specialization. When he died and introduced the Nobel peace prize, chemistry was the second prize area that he mentioned in his will. Thus the Nobel Prize in chemistry was founded. This prize is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences in Sweden (Nobel Foundation, 2007).
The 2007 Nobel Prize was awarded to a Germany scholar and scientist Gerald Ertl for his Continue reading...

Funding is requested from the National Science Foundation in order to carry out proposed research based on the calorimetric study of enthalpy, Gibb’s energy, and entropy. The technique of calorimetric experimentation has changed a great deal from the early 1960s when studies of the heat ionization of water were conducted. The first adiabatic bomb calorimeters were very simple and controlling the difference in temperature between the inside and outside jackets was hard to control. The difference in temperature needs to be as small as possible, close to an infinitesimal amount. Technology has developed to sophisticated levels. The automatic Continue reading...

I am Ghada Aldossary, a 35 years-old Echocardiogram Technologist of Saudi Arabian descent. I am married with four kids. I graduated from Dammam College in 1999 with Chemistry major. I always thought that chemistry major would quickly get me a placement but after graduation it dawned on me that there were overly many graduates with chemistry major who yet to get employed. I did not find a good offer until I heard that one of our best Hospitals in Eastern province was seeking Electrocardiogram Technician. The hospital, Aramco Hospital as it is called, is located in Dhahran on the Continue reading...

Lehn defines the concept of Supramolecular chemistry as 'chemistry beyond the molecule'; chemistry of the intermolecular bond that includes the functions and structures of the entities resulting from the bonding between multiple chemical species. According to Vogtle and Alfter (1991), supramolecular chemistry, contrary to molecular chemistry, is based on intermolecular bonding or interactions, while the later is predominantly based on the covalent bonding of atoms. In other words, supramolecular chemistry deals with the bonding between two or more building blocks that are bound together by means of intermolecular bonds.
The aforesaid concept bears on the organized entities of higher Continue reading...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2012 was awarded to two people that is Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka who demonstrated in detail that G-protein-coupled receptors enables the cells to be sensitive. The two clearly proofed before the panel how the receptors buildup, their functions, and how they can be regulated. Professor Sara Snogerup Linse a member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is the one who read the speech in Nobel Prize ceremony and she is a member of the Nobel committee for Chemistry.
The winners discovered that that the whole family of receptors that build up Continue reading...

Sustainable emerging materials: polymers and nanomaterials

In our time, we are used to satisfy our worldly needs and search for comfort by simply buying products at grocery stores, malls, or shopping centers. Nowadays we can access pretty much any type of product at affordable prices even if is coming from remote locations in the world. However, there is an extra price to pay: unprecedented amounts of non-renewable materials are depleted every single day. Most of these products are derived from petroleum, a non-renewable fossil fuel. To complicate things even further, the processing of petroleum is accompanied by the consumption of large amounts of energy and Continue reading...

External analysis of online matchmaking industry

Online matchmaking industry is one of the most controversial issues that most people do not seem to agree on. This may be due to the fact that like many applications that continue evolving with new ICT, it is very new especially to the old generation. This has opened a whole new idea of a third party in a relationship. Recently though, this activity has become acceptable even to the older generation since it has opened new opportunities of finding love. However, when people hear of matchmaking services, they tend to confuse the term with online medium-term relationship sites. Despite Continue reading...

Pre-medicine, famously known as pre-med, is an educational path that undergraduate students are required to undertake prior to pursue their dream medical careers. Pre-medicine as a career path, has rapidly grown in its popularity, thus becoming not only a prerequisite requirement in the United States, but almost in every country globally.
It entails all the necessary activities that prepare a student for a medical school. Such activities involve pre-medicine course work, clinical experience, volunteer experience, the application activities, and research work. All these aims at giving exposure to an aspiring medical student on the major ideas in relation to Continue reading...

Air pollution

Annotated bibliography
Gurjar, Bhola. R. Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts. Florida: CRC Press, 2010. Print.
This is a reliable source of information on air pollution. The book covers the complex nature in which various stakeholders attempt to alleviate the problem of air pollution around the globalized, industrialized world.
Stephenson, John. B. Air Pollution: Air Quality, Visibility, and the Potential Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants on Great Basin National Park, Nevada. Pennsylvania: DIANE Publishing, 2010.Print
This is a 22 page report that addresses the problem that faces the environment around the Great National Park posed by the coal fired Continue reading...

With close to 2.8% of the earth’s crust consisting of sodium in compounds, Sodium is by no doubt one of the most abundant elements on earth. The element has an atomic mass of about 22.98 amu and belongs to period 3 Group 1 (1A) (between Lithium and potassium) hence has an atomic number of 11, a valance of 1 and an oxidation state of +1. The Latin name for the symbol of Sodium is Natrium hence the symbol Na while the “Sodium” in Latin is referred to as Sodanum. Additionally, even though the element has Continue reading...

Fritz Haber, born in 1868, was a world-renowned German chemist whose multifaceted works in the field of chemistry earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1918. His most notable work involves the chemical process of synthesizing ammonia, which is used as one of the core ingredients in fertilizers and explosives (Stoltzenberg 84). The entire food industry is arguably dependent on his ingenious method, as most of the food is produced using fertilizers and other elemental components produced using his premier method. Perhaps the most unsettling role he played as one of the world’s most notable genius chemists Continue reading...

Admission Essay

No matter what I do, or what pursuit I follow, my ultimate goal has always been to help others. I was born in Cuba, and I came to the United States at the age of 12 with the rest of my family. After graduating high school, I worked as an insurance agent for approximately two years while I attended college. While there, I took a great deal of pleasure from helping my customers find the right plan for them. In this way, I gained satisfaction from making sure people and property were taken care of and safeguarded, and I Continue reading...

Math Websites

Online education Math websites are essential because they help students to acquire extra math skills. Students can forget various math skills during long vacations. However, with the current online education math websites, students can get as much assistance as possible from the websites. www.mathforum.com is one of the most crucial online education math websites, which provides math tutoring to a diverse group of students. It is made up of an online community of students, parents, teachers, researchers and educators who have great passion for math education (Drexel University, 2012). This online math website includes discussion groups and problems of Continue reading...

Similarities and differences

In any literacy work, the main theme is depicted and illustrated using different formats. This makes the work have its uniqueness though the main theme may be common for more than one work. This results in production of literacy works with a common theme but using different formats to illustrate and elaborate on the main theme.
The main artistic works that have common themes but use different formats are books (written literature) and artistic works (creations of the mind). The most affected type of work is artistic genre since many artists discuss the main theme as a unit then Continue reading...

Ludwig Boltzmann was an Australian physicist who is well known in the world of physics and Chemistry. The main fields that make him a well known person in the field of science are the molecular motion of particles in which he proposes that molecules must have thermal energy on top of other forms of energy for them to move (Klein 45). He contributed immensely in statistical mechanical physics and statistical thermodynamics. By evaluating amount of energy in molecular bodies, his influence stretched further to cover molecular chemistry.
One of the most remembered and significant theory is the H-Theorem. The Continue reading...

Communication is one of the basic units of family therapy. A therapist should consider various communication issues before come to a conclusion. The therapist should closely watch and evaluate the client’s family communication system to avoid potential transference problems.

Communication can be technically defined as the way of transferring different forms of information from one source to another. However, in day-to-day life communication plays an important role in keeping relationships. The mode of communication differs from one place to another. For family therapist, they use special communication theory to address various incidents and issues in a family. Many Continue reading...

Marie Curie is polish-born French physicist. She is most famous for her work on radioactivity. Besides she is twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. Together with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the first time in 1903. In 1911 she became the sole winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Thus, she became the first woman in the world history who won the Nobel Prize and the only female to win this honorable award in two different fields.
Marie Curie (born Sklodowska) was a talented, thirsty for knowledge Continue reading...

Michael Faraday was born on 22 September 1791 in the southern part of London. Due to his disadvantaged background, he was not able to attend full education only achieving basic literacy (Faraday 1). At the age of 14, he apprenticed under a local bookbinder. For the next 7 years, he educated himself by reading books on a wide range of subjects mostly scientific (Hamilton 23; Scientific papers). In 1812, at the age of 20, Faraday received some tickets for a series of lectures conducted by the eminent scientist Humphrey Davy of the Royal University of Great Britain. He attended Continue reading...