Chemistry

~Labs~

Smores Lab

The objective of our smores lab was to identify the difference between physical and chemical changes made when you go through the process of making a smore.We cooked smores and I made a hypothesis stating that chemical properties of the marshmallow would change after cooking it, and my hypothesis was correct after recording my results.

airplane Lab

The objective of our airplance lab was to create paper airplanes and record the distance it travled each time we added more mass (paperclips) My hypothesis was that if you increase the mass the paper would travel further, and after adding 4 paper clips, the airplane travled 2m further than the first trial with no paper clips, proving my hypothesis correct

~Projects~

Mercury Bohr model

I was assigned mercury as my element and we were tasked with making the bohr model for our element. My atomic number was 80 so i wrote P=80 to represent the how many protons it has. Mercury has 6 rings with 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, and 2 in each ring. Mercury also has 121 neutrons so I wrote N=121 in the middle to represent that.

element art

I had the mercury element and I had to make an image that represented my element and the rules were that I had to show the atomic number, chemical symbol, and element name on my image. I decided to draw a battery because mercury is used to make batteries. I included flashes of lighting bolts to give a more appealing look.

Mt. rushmore of chem

After learning about the history of the periodic table we had to make a "Mount Rushmore of chemistry", and I included 4 people who I thought were trailblazers of chemistry and made important contributions. Some of the people I included were Marie Curie,mendeleev, Alfred nobel, and antoine lavosier.

How might cultural and historical contexts have shaped scientific discoveries in making the periodic table? (CHEMISTRY) 10/2/24

I feel like if the period table was made in a different historical and cultural context I feel like the periodic table would have probably been made more organized and made faster. The element names would probably incoorperate diverse cultural names. I feel like the periodic table would prioritize more accurate sizes and properties of the element more early on as opposed to having unknown values when first starting off. In conclusion the periodic table would reflect a more diverse range of people outiside of europe because that it mainly where the discoveries were made by men, they would have less bias towards places where elements were found and the table would probably have more diverse color schemes, symbols, names, and it would probably include elements that are indigenous to their culture.

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