The Disappearing Spoon Chapter Summaries

Cadet Eric Wiggins Date: 18 September 2014 Course Name: Chem 100 Instructor: Captain Zuniga Section: M3A Identification of a Copper Mineral Intro Minerals are elements or compounds that are created in the Earth by geological processes. The method of isolating metals in a compound mineral is normally conducted through two processes.

Many villages must use chemicals to purify their drinking water. 7. In medieval times an infected person was placed in isolation. 8. Dentists have special equipment to sterilize their instruments.

Toxicology Article Cases Cousins Herman and Paul Petrillo were career criminals from Philadelphia who decided to form a matrimonial agency during the 1930s. The purpose of their agency would be to help widowed women remarry and get life insurance policies for their new husbands. However, since the agency functioned as a conduit for collecting money from these policies, the Petrillo cousins and their gang had a vested interest in making sure their clients’ husbands came to tragic ends, often with the wives as willing accomplices. Paul considered himself to be a practitioner of witchcraft and intended to use black magic to cause the husbands’ deaths. When that didn’t work, they decided to use arsenic instead.

Element 115 was found when a meteor hit earth and group 935 found it. Element 115 was extremely unstable element. It could power the Bell; Element 115 could reanimate dead cells or bring a dead person back to life. Element 115 is the reason we have Zombies in the first place.

Galen used elements to explain illnesses and diseases. He said that your blood/air was hot and wet, yellow bile/fire was hot and dry, black bile/earth was dry and cold, and that phlegm/water was cold and wet. Galen called these ‘humors’, he said when you have a proper balance you were considered to be healthy and when you had an improper balance it was suspected that there was a disease present. In 1668 a man named Hermann Boerhaave was born.

Copper is also a very important element in the medical field. Also, the united states penny was originally made from pure copper. Finally, the Statue of Liberty did not always look green. Copper was the first element manipulated by humans. It is now, currently still a major metal industry.

Chapter nine commences by telling its readers about how Lee Harding was diagnosed with E coli 0157:H7. After eating some tacos at a Mexican restaurant, he started to have excruciating stomach pains and diarrhea. Harding’s stomach was hurting because of some frozen hamburgers he ate a couple of days ago. Those same hamburgers provided by Hudson Foods were infected with E. coli 0157:H7. Millions of those same frozen hamburgers had already been sold and most likely eaten.

Dramatic irony and tragic irony are two concepts that can change the entire way one looks at how a story of any kind is presented. In the two short stories “Chemistry” by Ron Rash and “The Retreat” by Bobbie Ann Mason, irony plays a significant role in how the concept can completely consume a story making it come to life. Without irony, these two short stories would not have the intensity and meaningfulness packed into them. The short story “Chemistry” has a major focus on tragic irony.

Chapters 1-19 Chapters one through nineteen are very eventful. It starts off with the students going to prom. Dylan and Eric are the main people in the shooting are plotting out the massacre. They plan out to blow a bomb up in the cafeteria then shoot the victims trying to exit the school. The last plan was a mass explosion from vehicles in the parking lot.

Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robbin Williams. •••Oliver Sacks is An Anthropologist on Mars construe stories of individuals with neurological disorders as paradoxical

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a novel in which a carnival arrives in town with malicious plans. The values of life are put to the test as horrific change comes to Green Town, Illinois. It begins with two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Calloway, born two minutes apart but on different days confronted by a lightning rod salesman. He claims that lightning will strike Jim’s house at 3:00AM that morning. Bradbury then fits a lot into the next hours, as 3am didn’t come until many chapters later.

“Toxicity and the Consuming Subject” Summary In Nan Enstad’s essay “Toxicity and the Consuming Subject”, Enstad focuses primarily on the idea of toxicity in today’s consumerist society and how capitalism is the main contributor to the distribution, flexibility, and accessibility of it. The essay begins by telling of reporter David Ewing Duncan that, in an attempt to see how many chemicals are acquired through our water, air, and commodities, tested himself for 320 toxic chemicals and a little over half were found present in his body, many over estimated levels. National Geographic provides evidence of how toxic material is deposited in a consumer’s body through commodities they consume or have been exposed to. In an attempt to illustrate the

Few substances in history have had as profound an effect on human history as gunpowder... and its discovery was an accident! Ancient alchemists in China spent centuries trying to discover an elixir of life that would render the user immortal. One important ingredient in many of the failed elixirs was saltpeter, also known as potassium nitrate. During the Tang Dynasty, around 850 A.D., an enterprising alchemist (whose name has been lost to history) mixed 75 parts saltpeter with 15 parts charcoal and 10 parts sulfur.

Throughout this chapter, people are using Radium, a radioactive element, as though it is beneficial to their health. People begin to get sick and die due to ingesting the dangerous substance that erodes bones and tissue. Near the end of the chapter people begin to realize that Radium is actually very dangerous, and it should definitely never be consumed. The woman who discovered Radium, Marie Curie, began touring to spread awareness about Radium and its health risks. The chapter nears its end when “ [Marie] died in 1934 of aplastic anemia”

The Science of Green Chemistry is strangly supported in this book because it has been found that the manipulation of natural elements