Toluene

In September of 1985 Kroto, Heath, O’Brien, Curl, and Smalley were investigating sources of the long carbon chain molecules in the interstellar medium and how they might be related to soot formation.1 Smalley developed a laser vaporization cluster beam apparatus that allowed for the mass-spectrometric study of stable clusters formed in a helium-entrained plasma produced by a pulse of laser aimed on at a solid target.2 This experimental technique was a very important discovery to cluster science…

Tobacco There are 1,300 deaths from smoking and exposure to secondhand smoking everyday in the United States. Cigarettes are made of a leafy plant called tobacco, which is grown around the world. It is sold in grocery stores, supermarkets, vending machines, liquor stores, and so many other places that it is so easy for people to access it. Making it even more dangerous than it already is, with causing diseases, conditions, and even death because it is so addictive. Tobacco should be illegal…

religion for hundreds and thousands of years. Ibogaine is the tryptamine molecule that is primarily responsible for Iboga's effect. Ibogaine similar to serotonin, but with a methyl molecule where the hydroxy group would be, and a more complex toluene structure with an ethyl group coming off. Ibogaine acts on almost all receptors in the brain, but primarily the…

evaporated water also knows as VOC (volatile organic compounds) are released into the atmosphere that can have serious side effects. The VOC can create contaminated air, acid rain and ground level ozone. Many of the chemicals released are benzene, toluene, xylene and ethyl benzene, particulate matter and dust, ground level ozone, or smog, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and metals. One of the major VOC is known as methane and is known to cause climate change. Methane is leaked out…

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, workers at a fracking well were about to begin a safety meeting at a fracking well site. The three wells on the site were drilled and ready to produce fresh natural gas. The wells were owned and operated by Chevron Appalachia, in Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania, of southwest of Pittsburgh. One of the wells was making a hissing noise. The hissing noise was methane escaping from a damaged well. The well exploded while one of the workers, Ian McKee, was investigating…

How many deaths are attributed to alcohol and tobacco a year? How many deaths are attributed to marijuana ? Alcohol approximately has about 88,000 deaths a year and tobacco has approximately 41,000 people per year, while marijuana had a total of zero deaths. Marijuana is judged to be a bad drug. Marijuana is made from flowers and leaves of a plant called Cannabis Sativa, which is another name for marijuana. The main ingredient in marijuana is THC- tetrahydrocannabinol. Marijuana goes all the way…

To determine the identity of the unknown compound many tests were performed. These tested the pH, qualitative solubility, quantitative solubility, conductivity, anions present in the compound, and cations present in the compound. The results of each test can be found in Table Whatever. In the cation test, we used two tests, the flame test and the ammonium test, to determine the identity of the cation present in the unknown compound. We also performed these tests on known compounds to know how a…

Climate change and pollution are serious global issues. Recently, cities such as New Delhi and Beijing have been plagued by unprecedented levels of smog, leading to riots and unrest. Greenhouse gases have greatly increased the temperature of our atmosphere and are upsetting the Earth’s fragile balance as an ecosystem. Consequently, in 2016, the arctic ice sheet was the smallest ever recorded, but most worryingly, according to NASA, the past 13 years have had the 13 smallest ice sheets on record…

on the effects of crude oil on the body. Some of the symptoms of oil exposure include “Dizziness, euphoria, nausea, blurry vision and headaches”. The same study listed some toxic chemicals that cause these symptoms, “‘…such compounds as benzene, toluene, and xylenes, which are also found in gasoline,’” (O'Hanlon, 2010) Longer term symptoms of exposure to oil and its byproducts include adult leukemia and other cancers. Sound familiar? Crude oil also has neurotoxins, or toxins that effect the…

In conclusion, we reported the synthesis of fused and isolated triazoles based on thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines. The synthesized 1,2,4-triazolo compounds were screened for their anticancer activity at a concentration of 10 μΜ against a panel of 60 cell lines derived from nine different types of cancers, and also screened for their PDE 5 inhibitory activity. The possibility of combining 1,2,4-triazolo moiety to thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines should open new opportunities for the rational design of…