Everyday Chemicals
NaCl
Salt or Table Salt
The process in which plants, algae, plankton, and some bacteria convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into sugars.
What is Photosynthesis?
The most common molecule in the human body.
H2O
When a living organism is no longer able to maintain homeostasis, and the connective tissues, bonds, and organic chemicals begin to decay.
What is decomposition?
A controlled process where a cell self-destructs to help the body stay healthy.
What is Programmed Cell Death or Apoptosis?
C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁
Sugar or Table Sugar
The self-regulating process by which an organism maintains a stable internal environment necessary for survival.
What is Homeostasis?
A small, butterfly-shaped endocrine organ located in the lower front of the neck that regulates the body's metabolism and energy use.
The thyroid gland.
Also called C₄H₁₂N₂ (a simple diamine), this organic chemical gives decomposing and rotting matter its smell.
What is putrescine?
What are four?
NaClO
Bleach
A prolonged state of deep winter dormancy.
What is hibernation?
The heaviest element in the body, used by the thyroid, it disposes of the radioactive isotope of this element, replacing it with the stable version of this element.
What is Iodine?
The organic material left behind when carbon and amino acid based matter has decayed, primarily due to strong bonds and an extremely high burning or melting point.
What is bone?
One of the end of the universe scenarios where energy reaches an equilibrium according to the 0th law of thermodynamics?
What is the Heat Death of the Universe?
NH3
Ammonia
A state of dormancy used during hot and dry periods.
What is aestivation?
A key protein in connective tissue that allows skin, lungs, and blood vessels to stretch and return to their original shape.
What is Elastin?
Neither plant nor animal, this species of living organism is a natural decomposer, absorbing its energy from living or decaying matter instead of photosynthesis.
What are fungi?
The striking contradiction between the high statistical likelihood that extraterrestrial civilizations exist and the complete lack of evidence or contact with them?
What is The Fermi Paradox?
CH 3−CH(NH 2)−COOH
Amino Acid 2-aminopropanoic acid
The internal carrying and development of an embryo or fetus inside a viviparous (live-bearing) animal or human from conception to birth.
What is Gestation?
A chemical messenger in your brain and body that helps control movement, memory, and feelings of pleasure and reward.
The process in which harder and heavier inorganic elements absorb into formerly living, organic matter over a massive amount of time.
What is fossilization?
The alternate name of a black hole, where energy, light, matter, all condense into an infinitely dense, infinitely small object.
What is a singularity?