The second reading we were giving was titled The Race for Iodine. We were assigned a question sheet to answer about facts about the scientists that were involved in this scientific race. In my opinion, this reading was not as interesting as Matter, but I did learn about other scientific discoveries and different scientists. From my perspective the most impressive fact in this article was that the English scientistic Davy discovered nitrous oxide (laughing gas) when he was only 21. In addition, his family didn't have money when he was growing up and he never had an actual education. To have the ability to accomplish what he did at such a young age is beyond extravagant. http://mxplx.com/meme/1443/ This website also helped simplify The Race for Iodine.
As the week progressed, the worksheets increased in difficulty. Throughout the worksheet, we had to figure out the answers to problems based on their compounds with different elements. The first step we had to do in the worksheet was determine the value of the ratio of mass O divided by mass C. "O" stands for oxygen and "C" stands for carbon because we were given the compounds of carbon and oxygen. In each problem, we are given 2 compounds; A and B. You determine the ratio in each compound by using the formula above, mass O divided by mass C. Then we have the information needed to determine the differences between the ratio of the two compounds. Now for the challenging part of the problems, putting the information we found into a particle drawing. After it was explained the process became easier to comprehend.
In Hypothesis 1, we are given the scenario that carbon and oxygen have the same mass. To explain how I concluded in hypothesis one, box one is because with the numbers that were given to us, the mass ratio from compound A was 1.33 which is also 4/3 and the mass in ratio in compound B is 2.66 or 8/3. Therefore, for compound A in the first box, we can conclude that for ever 3 carbon atoms, there will be 4 oxygen atoms. In the second box which is compound B, we can determine from the previous problem that for every 3 carbon atoms, there will be 8 oxygen atoms. Now looking at the second column, we are given the scenario that oxygen is going to be heavier than carbon. The first box is the atoms compared to each other. Compound B box is interesting because 8/3 is twice as much as 4/3 which is why there is two oxygen for every one carbon atom.
Surprisingly, the last worksheet of the week was fairly simple to make conclusions and determine the correct answer. Studying how sugar is made up of and how the amount of different elements can make 2 different types of sugar the same was our assignment. In all of the problems, we were given a total mass and different amount of mass each element made up. We were assigned to find the percentage each element made up of the total mass. Throughout the different problems, the numbers changed slightly. As a class, we made the conclusion that if one problem has the same percentages for the same element as another problem, then they are the same.