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…

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…

Introduction In surface chemistry, adsorption stands for the adhesion of chemical species onto the surface of particles. Adsorptions are usually done with the help of adsorbents. These adsorbent surface acts as an effective adsorptive sites that attracts pollutant ions to accommodate into the vacant sites….

Photosynthesis is a chemical reaction that takes place inside a plant, it has two stages known as the light reactions and the Calvin Cycle which then divides into photosystem I and photosystem II. It is known as the process that feeds the biosphere which involves…

The driving forces for the low molecular weight gelators ( LMWGs ) where it self-assembles are due to dipole- dipole attraction, hydrogen- bonding, π- π interactions, and the van der Waals forces. For the construction of an LMWG, it is efficient if it uses low…

Alkali Metals Lithium is on the top of Alkali metals and the lights out of all the metals. It is so light that it will float on water unlike some metals, and when it comes in contact with water it reacts by fizzing and putting…