Chemistry 125IN: Consumer Chemistry

These files are provided for students in Chemistry 125IN, an integrated lecture and laboratory class at Pima Community College for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Lecture and Class Information:

CHM 125IN Syllabus for Fall 2010

Short Report Information for CHM 125IN

What's That Stuff This is a link to the Chemical & Engineering News web page which archives their continuing columns on the chemistry of everyday materials. These articles are not highly technical. Chemical & Engineering News is the weekly publication of the American Chemical Society.

Reference Material:

No textbook is required for this course. The book by Ben Selinger, Chemistry in the Marketplace, can be used as a reference for this course.

The Periodic Table If you are looking for information on any chemical element, its properties, or its uses, use this link to the Web Elements Periodic Table by Mark Winter, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Sheffield. Probably the best periodic table on the Internet, it provides a wealth of information about the elements.

ChemSpider If you are searching for information on chemical compounds, their structure or other information, ChemSpider links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures. With an abundance of additional property information, tools to curate and use the data, and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information available online.  ChemSpider is provided free by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Many of the references listed below are links to other web sites. These links, or the information referred to, may change when web sites are updated. Some web sites may be deleted by sponsoring organizations over time. Please advise your instructor if a web site is no longer accessible.

The origins of chemistry

An Illustrated History of Alchemy and Chemistry from ancient times to 1800

Math Review includes significant figures and scientific notation

Math Review Algebraic operations you should be able to do before starting a general chemistry course

Math Answers Answers to the Math Review problems

Significant Figures, Exponents, and Scientific Notation A tutorial

A Summary of Significant Figures Rules

Answers for Significant Figures, Exponents, and Scientific Notation

Measurement, and Temperature

Metric System The SI system with a short history of measurement

Temperature Temperature measurement with a short historical background

Absolute Zero This is a program from NOVA (split into 10 chapters). The program presents a history of temperature measurement up to the modern methods of trying to reach absolute zero. This is a link to the NOVA website.

The Elements and the Periodic Table

Element Symbols A historical approach to modern element symbols

Forging the Elements How were the elements formed? This is a segement from the NOVA program Origins: Back to the Beginning. Watch the entire program (split into 6 chapters) or just select the Forging the Elements chapter. This is a link to the NOVA website.

The Periodic Table This is a link to the Web Elements Periodic Table by Mark Winter, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Sheffield. Probably the best periodic table on the Internet, it provides a wealth of information about the elements. This is the place to look for information about the chemical elements.

Electron configurations This is an applet for electron configurations from The ChemCollective at Carnegie Mellon

Prospects for Further Considerable Extension of the Periodic Table, a paper by Glenn T. Seaborg, Journal of Chemical Education, 46, Number 10, October 1969, p626

Island of Stability A video from NOVA explaining how heavy elements are made. This is a link to the NOVA website

Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature

Formula Writing Includes nomenclature of inorganic compounds.

Answers for Formula Writing

Additional Tables for Formula Writng These tables were supplied by Matthew Medeiros of Pima Community College.

Flowcharts for Naming Compounds and Common Acids

Chemical Formulas and Formula Weight Calculations

Notes on Organic Chemistry

Product Safety and Toxicology

Product safety standards This is a link to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision

Toxicology basics This is a PDF of a PowerPoint presentation Principles of Toxicology by Elizabeth Casarez of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.

Notes on Toxicology basics These are a PDF file of the Principles of Toxicology (BIOC 597c) by Elizabeth Casarez of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.

Food Chemistry

Fats and Oils

Information can be found at the U.S. Department of Agriculture website:
Click here for information on oils
Click here for information about solid fats

The American Dietetic Association has a Primer on Fats and Oils

Butter

Learn about butter, its history, controversies, and how its made at Butter Through the Ages

Pickles

Learn about the Science of Pickles at the Exploratorium Science of Cooking Kitchen Lab. The site includes information and recipes

Root Beer

To learn more about root beer, brands, recipes and more go to Root Beer World

Popcorn

The Popcorn Board, a non-profit check-off organization funded by U.S. popcorn processors has a web site to raise awareness of popcorn as a versatile, whole-grain snack. Popcorn

Food Additives

Food Additives: What They Do A list of common food additives and the reason they are added to our food.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a website listing Everything Added To Food in the United States (EAFUS) There is a lot to navigate in this site.

A list of many food additives and their known usage, with a glossary of food additive terms can be found at the NutritionData website

The International Food Information Council has a wesite listing a Functional Foods Fact Sheet: Antioxidants

Cheese

Cheese.com is a website that has a searchable database of 670 cheeses by names, country of origin, kind of milkthat is used to produce it, or by texture

Bread

Bread This is a link to the Wikipedia article on bread

Water

The United State Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools website contains information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.

Wastewater/Sewage Treatment This is a link to the Wikipedia article on Sewage Treatment

Food Chemistry Articles from Chemistry World, October 2009. Chemistry World is a publication of the Royal Chemical Society (RSC) in Great Britain.

The Spice of Life describes some of the health benefits of spices

In a Fix tells about the importance of nitrogen fixation for fertilization of crops

Boxing Clever is an article about developments in packaging materials for foods

On the Rise describes bread chemistry

The Food Detectives tells about the investiagtion of food adulteration

Cosmetics and Personal Care

Skin Cream

Skin Cream This is a link to the WebMD site discussing Hope in a Jar: Do Skin Creams Work?

Skin Cream Ingredients This is a link to the WebMD site discussing the products in skin creams

Sunscreen Lotions

Sunscreen This is a link to the Wikipedia article. It contains a nice listing of active ingredients

Perfumes

How Perfumes Work This is a link to the How Stuff Works web site

Toothpaste

Toothpaste formulation and whitening toothpaste Information from the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), August 2001

Medicines and Drugs

Pain Relievers

MedlinePlus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. It is designed to direct you to information to answer health questions. This is a link to the pain relievers page.

FamilyDoctor.org provides health information and links. This is a link to the pain relievers page.

WebMD provides a wide range of health information. This is a link to the pain relievers page.

Drugs of Abuse

Charts of Commonly Abused Drugs can be found at the DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) and NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) web siites.

Consumer Reports magazine published an excellent book Licit and Illicit Drugs. This is a link to that book online.

Household Products

Batteries

How Batteries Work This is a link to the howstuffworks web site

Energizer Learning Center has a site that tells about batteries, history, battery care, battery comparison, and some battery experiments.

Battery University is a site sponsored by Cadex Electronics Inc., in Vancouver BC. The site contains information about battery chemistries, best battery choices and ways to make your battery last longer.

Fuel Cells

How Fuel Cells Work This is a link to the HowStuffWorks web site on Fuel Cells

Fuel Cells This is a link to the NOVA site that has a 14 minute video on fuel cell cars and a number of discussion points on fuel cells

The Online Fuel Cell Information Resource This is a link to a web site from the Breakthrough Technologies Institute (BTI), a non-profit [501(c)(3)] independent, educational organization that identifies and promotes environmental and energy technologies that can improve the human condition.

Paper

Papermaking A video on YouTube. Brian Cowie, CEO of The Paper Mill Store, Inc. takes us on a tour of Neenah Paper's Appleton, Wisconsin paper mill as they make recycled paper.

How Paper is Made. A video on YouTube from CoolStuffBeing Made.com

Polymers

The Macrogalleria is a polymer learning cite produced by the Polymer Science Learning Center of the Department of Polyer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi

Polymer is the Wikipedia site providing a brief semi-technical description of polymers

Polymers is an introduction to polymer science, a part of the Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemstry lecture program by William Reusch. This is the technical information on polymers

Rubber This is a link to the Wikipedia article on natural rubber.

Synthetic rubber This is a link to the Wikipedia article on synthetic rubber

Nanotechnology

What is Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Takes Off A QUEST video, Part of A KQED Multimedia Series Exploring Northern California Science, Environment and Nature

What is Nanotechnology This is a link to the web site of CRN, the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

Introduction to Nanotechnology This is a link to the nanowerk website. This is a good multipage article on nanotechnology (An outline of the article's contents is on the left-hand side of the page.)

How Nanotechnology Works This is a link to the HowStuffWorks web site

Laboratory Experiments and Activities:

Tthe laboratory safety and procedures book, The General Chemistry Laboratory Survival Manual, is available in the college bookstore. The laboratory experiments are available here for downloading. Please check the course syllabus for dates for individual experiments. (These are PDF files and require acrobat reader.)

Safety in the Academic Laboratory

Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, 7th Ed. This is a link to the publication by the American Chemical Society Joint Board-council Committee on Chemical Safety

Safety Test Questions These questions are similar, but not exactly the same, as those asked on the safety test. The safety test contains 35 questions.

Mystery Powders

Chemical Reactions

The Synthesis of Zinc Iodide: Tracking a Chemical Reaction

Esters: An Introduction to Organic Chemistry Reactions

Acids, Bases, and pH Using Red Cabbage Paper

Economics of a Chemical Product

The Chemistry of Soaps and Detergents This contains both the preparation of a soap and a detergent and testing the properties of soaps and detergents.

Evaluation of Detergents and Cleaning Aids

Potato Chip Tasting

Determination of Fat in Potato Chips

Popcorn

Microwave Popcorn

Apple Browning: A look at antioxidants

Butter in a Bottle

Size of a Fatty Acid Molecule

Zip-Lock Pickles

Root Beer

Make Your Own Orange Drink

Peanut and Nut Butter

Easy Cheese

How Yeast Works

Esters: The Preparation of Artificial Food Flavors

Chromatography: The Extraction and Identification of Artificial Colors From Foods

Energy of a Peanut: Determining the Caloric Content of Selected Foods

Testing the Waters: How Good is That Bottled Water and How Effective is Your Water Filter

Toothpaste Testing is under development

Preparation of a Skin Cream

Isolation of an Essential Oil

Perfume

Preparation and Evaluation of Sunscreens

The Drug Lab: Synthesis of Aspirin and Acetaminophen

Standardization of a Basic Solution and Analysis of Stomach Antacid Tablets

The polymers lab consists of several experiments:

Identification of a Polymer

Polymers includes the perparations of several different polymers

Preparation of Synthetic Rubbert

The metals lab consists of several experiments:

Heat Treatment of Iron

Cleaning Metals and Metal Polish cleans metals two different ways

Electroplating is currently under development

An Experiment in Alchemy: Copper to Silver to Gold

Nanotechnology experiments are located at the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Click on this link to go to the entire Video Lab Manual of experiments for Nanoscale Science and Technology. The links below will take you directly to the experiments or will open a modified experiment..

Nanotechnology: Synthesis of Aqueous Ferrofluid Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology: Liquid Crystals

Nanotechnology: Make a Liquid Crystal Pixel

Nanotechnology: Nitinol Wire

In addition to the above experiments, there is a section of Nanoscale Science and Technology Demonstrations, a series of short movies that demonstrate aspects of nanotechnology. Click on this link to go to the movie page. (Requires Quicktime which can be downloaded at no cost from the link on the movie page.)

Preparation of a Synthetic Dye is currently uder development

Dyes and Dyeing

Natural Plant Dyes

Papermaking

Making Wax Crayons

Making Pastels is currently under development

Soils and Geological Formations and Mining for Natural Resources

Making Crayons and Pastel Crayons is currently under development

Batteries

Fuel Cells

Nuclear Chemistry Experiments

Partial Thermal Degradation of Mixed Saccharides with Protein Inclusions