HEY HEY SCHOLARS!
This week we will be discussing the periodic table more in-depth. Your task for this week is to find one interesting thing that is made out of an element on the periodic table or has the element in it.
EX: FACOTID: finger and toe nails have a small amount of GOLD in them
The most interesting Factoid will recieve a prize on Monday
Happy Blogging
Mr. D
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People make spark plugs out of Polonium.
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/077/index.s7.html
Mercury is used for tooth fillings when you go to the dentist for a cavity.
http://periodictable.com/Elements/080/index.html
silicon is used to creat smoke screens
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele014.html
chemistry 2nd p
robert boone
gallium is a key component of LED lights because of its capability to directly convert electricity into coherent light.
http://www.webelements.com/gallium/
Scandium iodide is added to mercury vapor lamps so that they will emit light that closely resembles sunlight...
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele021.html
The Periodic Table contains 21 pieces named after elements,which are based on events in Primo Levi's life.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Periodic_Table.html
silicon can be found in computer chips
Zinc is very important for the growth of plants and animals.
http://www.webelements.com/zinc/
Due to the fact Palladium will not tarnish in air or water, it often is used in dental work, usually alloyed with gold or silver. White gold, often used in jewelry, is an alloy of gold and palladium.
the element radium is used in luminous clocks and watch hands until too many factory workers died from it.
http://www.periodictable.com/Elements/088/index.html
This oil temperature gauge is out of a WWII bomber and it has a luminous dial made with radium paint.
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/088/index.s7.html
Before the discovery of penicilin, Arsenic was used as an antibiotic to treat Syphilis and Yaws.
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/tsp/arsenic.htm
-Caitlynn Cosper
helium is tasteless and it makes you talk funny when you inhale it
http://www.ukpartyshop.co.uk/helium-2.html
Polonium is believed to have caused the death of former intelligence agent, Alexander Litvinenko, in November 2006.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/poloniumfacts.htm
Polonium is the only component of cigarette smoke to produce cancer in laboratory animals.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/poloniumfacts.htm
Radium is used in luminous paint, for cancer treatment and in the early 1900s was used in items like toothpaste and hair cream.
/www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Ra-en.htm
Silver was used to protect from bacteria and germs since the time of Chinese emperors.
amoina is use in hair dying supplies. Amoina is make of two different elements.
Silicon can be found in alot of electronic devices. For example, LCD screens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon
A mercury-based preservative could have something to do with the rise in autism.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2005/05/20/The_Age_of_Autism_Mercury_and_the_Amish/UPI-19701116593191/
Rachelle Scott
some pottery is actually glazed with uranium
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