Basics
Periodic Table
Cooking
It's Elemental
Fun Facts
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Chains of hydrogen and carbon.
What are hydrocarbons?
-found in oil and gas used for fuel
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Atomic symbol for sodium.
What is Na?
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This can be made when combining milk with an acid.
What is buttermilk and/or cheese?
-Acidifying (souring) milk helps to separate the curds and whey and control the growth of undesirable bacteria in cheese.
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The Hindenburg was fill with this element.
What is hydrogen? (H)
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Element used to sanitize swimming pools.
What is chlorine (Cl)?
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The four states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
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Automic symbol for gold.
What is Au?
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The term used to define when foods are submerged in salt water for a time creating a pickled food like Kimchi.
What is fermentation?
- During lacto-fermentation, some bacteria survive and others don’t. The kind that could be harmful to people don’t survive, but a special bacteria called Lactobacillus (which is found in yogurt and many other healthy foods) does survive because they can tolerate the saltiness.
-Lactobacillus bacteria are healthy for lots of reasons, but have been credited with anti-inflammatory properties. They also reportedly reduce the risk of infection, and maintain the health of our digestive system.
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Element used in batteries and medication for manic depression.
What is Lithium? (Li)
-Cobalt (Co) is also in batteries.
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Term used for oil and water mixing.
What is emulsion?
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Building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
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Element used in thermometers instead of mercury.
What is gallium?
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This is an emulsion and a foam. Fats are important to the creaminess of this food.
What is ice-cream?
- Ice cream contains all three states of matter simultaneously and is both a foam and an oil-in-water emulsion. The quality of ice cream depends on its microstructure: small ice crystals and air bubbles give the ice cream a smooth, soft texture. If the ice crystals are too large, the ice cream becomes gritty and unpleasant to eat.
- Ice cream is an emulsion—a combination of two liquids that don't normally mix together. In ice cream, liquid particles of fat—called fat globules—are spread throughout a mixture of water, sugar, and ice, along with air bubbles.
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Element that is added to fertilizer.
What is phosphorus?
-Too much phosphorus can cause an overgrowth of algae.
-The human body contains about 1lb. of phosphorus.
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Obleck "goo" is this type of liquid.
What is a Non-Newtonian liquid?
-Basically, Sir Issac Newton stated individual liquids flow at consistent, predictable rates.
-the size, shape, and makeup of the cornstarch grains causes the cornstarch to “lock-up” and hold its shape when pressure is applied to it.
-this goo is a SUSPENSION, meaning that the grains of starch are not dissolved, they are just suspended and spread out in the water.
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The chart shows examples of both ____ and ____ .
What are acids and bases?
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Atomic symbol Ag.
What is silver?
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An egg (protein) and gelatin (sugar) based foam made in class.
What is a marshmallow?
- More precisely, it is a foam with air bubbles, stabilized by sugars and proteins (egg & gelatin). The sugar & protein mix is strong enough to keep the bubbles apart and prevent the air from escaping, but soft enough to create that gooey marshmallow texture.
-more gelatin is used in gummy bears than in marshmallows which makes gummies more firm
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All organic matter contains what element?
What is carbon (C)?
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Element refered to as brimstone in the phrase "fire and brimstone" of hell.
What is sulfer? (S)
-a sulfer flash was used in old photographs causing people to startle.
-sulfer has a recognizably bad smell.
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The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is the atomic number of an element?
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This element decreases in the body when too much water is consumed?
What is sodium (Na)?
-This can dilute the electrolytes, especially sodium, in the blood. This is called hyponatremia.
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A foam that does not have protein bonds, rather just suger and fat.
What is whipped cream?
-if whipped cream is a body, then fat is its skeleton
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Most abundant element in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen (N)?
-78% of air is comprised of nitrogen while
oxygen (O) is 21%, and argon is .93%
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Aristotle used goat urine and Hippocrates used pigeon droppings to cure this.
What is baldness?