Essays on Chemistry

Salt is a basic piece of all human and individual life. What cause’s salt so important? It is the sodium/particles that the salt has. Our body utilizes salt to keep up a portion of its basic abilities. For instance, salt is utilized to take-up specific…

In this dissertation, to sense glucose levels in individuals, a number of design technologies have existed. The main object is to design a highly selective and sensitive device for glucose sensing. With the prime focus on a blood glucose sensor and work did so far…

Glucose monitoring is a technology that has been used to monitor diabetes for the last thirty years. There has been evolution of glucose, started with glucose measuring methods that used enzymes to determine the content. Nowadays there is plenty of glucose monitoring devices that give…

There was no distinction between sodium and potassium until the 18th century as early chemists did not distinguish between the mineral alkali sodium carbonate and vegetable alkali potassium carbonate from each other. Sodium was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy in England by means…

The Sodium Intake of people in poverty stricken areas in the Philippines is causing major problems to them. According to the Philippines Statistics Authority (2019), the percentage of Filipinos who live below the poverty line is 21% or almost 1 in every 5 people are…

Dietary sodium deficiency in the healthy European population is rare, with Ireland having a trend of high intakes. In 2011, the average daily sodium intake for 18-64 year olds in Ireland was 2.96g (7.4g salt)3. According to the FSAI, this figure had increased to nearly…

I woke up one beautiful Saturday morning thinking “What was Gandhi going to get himself into this time.” When I started driving in my red honda to fox 5 news, to work I saw Gandhi. Of course, gathering up people wanting to start a protest….

Salt has been around forever. It can be so tiny, yet still play a big part in explaining the history of the world. Salt has been used for many things throughout time. It was used to help care for Egyptian mummies, and make sure that…

Abstract Neutral red dye transports through a membrane of yeast cells using active transport.. We decided that changing glucose concentration could overcome inhibition of active transport channels in S. cerevisiae and lead to an increase of ATP made available to the cell; therefore an increase…

Starvation has generally been referred to as the severest form of malnutrition whereby there is a catastrophic lack of energy in form of calories; able for an organisms sustenance. The human body is sufficiently adapted to survive periods of lack of food intake; through a…