Chemicals- modern demons?
CHEMICALS –
MODERN DEMONS ?
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What Is a Chemical?
Short answer : Everything is a chemical.
Longer answer : Chemistry is the study of matter and its interactions with other matter.
Anything made of matter is therefore a chemical. Any liquid, solid, gas. Any pure
substance; any mixture. Water is a chemical. Technically speaking, so is a chunk of
your computer. A chemical can often be broken down into components, as is true with
your computer. However, people generally use the term 'chemical' to refer to a
substance that appears homogeneous or the same throughout its structure.
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Vocabulary
Plasma : The colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat
globules are suspended.
Photosynthesis : The process by which green plants and some other organisms use
sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants
generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a by-product.
Aerobic Cellular Respiration : Aerobic cellular respiration is the process in which our
cells break down food and turn it into energy that cells need to perform their life
functions.
Anaerobic Respiration : A form of cellular respiration that occurs when oxygen is absent
or scarce.
Morbidity : The proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality
.
Malformation : An abnormally formed part of the body.
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Matter and Chemicals
Anything that has mass and occupies space is matter. Matter consists of particles. So,
basically anything you can taste, smell, or hold consists of matter and is therefore a
chemical. Examples of chemicals include the chemical elements, such as zinc, helium,
and oxygen; compounds made from elements including water, carbon dioxide, and salt;
and more complex materials like your computer, air, rain, a chicken, a car, etc.
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More Examples of Chemicals
Gases
Liquids
Solids
Plasma (including most of a flame)
Examples of Things That Are not Chemicals
Heat
Kinetic energy
Gravity
Potential energy
Ultraviolet light
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What Is a Chemical Reaction?
Simply put, a chemical reaction is any transformation from one set of chemicals into
another set. If the starting and ending substances are the same, a change may have
occurred, but it is not a chemical reaction.
Examples of Chemical Reactions
There are millions of chemical reactions!
Here are some examples:
Fire (combustion)
Baking a cake
Mixing baking soda and vinegar to produce salt
and carbon dioxide gas
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10 Examples of Chemical Reactions in Everyday Life
1. Photosynthesis
2. Aerobic Cellular Respiration
3. Anaerobic Respiration
4. Combustion
5. Rust
6. Mixing Chemicals
7. Batteries
8. Digestion
9. Acid-Base Reactions
10. Soaps and Detergents
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Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
 Death
 Morbidity : 1) Irreversible a. Death & b. Life long disability and 2) Reversible
 Effects on pregnancy outcome : 1) Abortion and 2) Malformation genetic effects
 Effects on growing children : 1) Growth and development and 2) Behavioral changes
 Effects on Immune system
 Effects on Inheritance
 Cancer
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Biological effects on skin
Effects on nervous system and sense organs
Effects on other Physiological functions
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