12 Examples of Chemistry in Daily Life

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Examples of Everyday Chemistry in the World around Us


 
You know cleaning supplies are chemicals, but chemistry in daily life extends to everything you can touch or taste. Jamie Grill / Getty Images
Chemistry is a big part of your everyday life. You find chemistry in daily life in the foods you eat, the air you breathe, cleaning chemicals, your emotions and literally every object you can see or touch. Here's a look at 10 examples of everyday chemistry. Some common chemistry may be obvious, but others might surprise you.

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Elements in the Human Body 

 


Your body is made up of chemical compounds, which are combinations of elements. While you probably know your body is mostly water, which is hydrogen and oxygen, can you name the other elements that make you ... you?

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Chemistry of Love

 

The emotions that you feel are a result of chemical messengers, primarily neurotransmitters. Love, jealousy, envy, infatuation and infidelity all share a basis in chemistry.

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Why Onions Make You Cry


They sit there, so harmless-looking on the kitchen counter. Yet as soon as you cut an onion, the tears begin to fall. What is it in onions that makes them burn your eyes? You can be sure everyday chemistry is the culprit.

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Why Ice Floats


Can you imagine how different the world around you would be if ice sank? For one thing, lakes would freeze from the bottom. Chemistry holds the explanation for why ice floats, while most substances sink when they freeze.

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How Soap Cleans


Soap is a chemical that mankind has been making for a very long time. You can form a crude soap by mixing ashes and animal fat. How can something so nasty actually make you cleaner? The answer has to do with the way soap interacts with oil-based grease and grime.


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How Sunscreen Works


Sunscreen uses chemistry to filter or block the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays to protect you from a sunburn, skin cancer, or both. Do you know how sunscreen works or what an SPF rating really means?

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Why Baking Powder and Baking Soda Make Foods Rise


You can't interchange these two important cooking ingredients, even though they both cause baked good to rise. Chemistry can help you understand what makes them different (and what to do if you run out of one, but have the other in your cabinet).


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Fruit That Ruins Gelatin


Jell-O and other types of gelatin are an example of a polymer that you can eat. Some natural chemicals inhibit the formation of this polymer. Simply put, they ruin Jell-O. Can you name them?


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Can Bottled Water Go Bad?


 
 Food goes bad because of chemical reactions that occur between food molecules. Fats can become rancid. Bacteria grow that can make you sick. What about products that don't contain fat? Can bottled water go bad?


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Is It Okay To Use Laundry Detergent in the Dishwasher?


You can apply chemistry to decide when and where to use household chemicals. While you might think detergent is detergent, so it's interchangeable from one application to another, there are some good reasons why laundry detergent should stay in the washing machine.


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More Examples of Everyday Chemistry


Do you need more examples of everyday chemistry? Here are additional ways chemistry works in your daily life.

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  1. Mellycha Liani Putri30 April 2017 pukul 00.01

    explain me the process enzymatis?

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    1. Unknown3 Mei 2017 pukul 08.23

      Enzymatic is one of the process of modification of physical properties of oil and fat. Interesterification is widely used by industries to replace the hydrogenation process in lowering trans fatty acids. Restructure cocoa fat with coconut oil and with flood oil ratio (90:10); (80:20); (70:30) and (60:40) were carried out by enzymatic interesterification with palm kernel lipase, lipase nucleus and lipase kakaosebagai catalyst and lipozyme TL IM and NaOCH3 as comparative catalysts.Fatty fat content (SFC), melting point (TL), composition Fatty acids (FA), triglyceride composition (TG), and free fatty acids (FFA) are determined in the mixture. The interesterification process decreases the solid fat content and the density in the mixture.

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  2. Unknown30 April 2017 pukul 00.25

    What is the effect of chemical reactions to your life?

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    1. Unknown3 Mei 2017 pukul 08.37

      Bleach is usually sold in the form of a solution and is used to remove impurities or colored stains that are difficult to remove by using only soap or detergent. Bleach solutions sold on the market usually contain sodium active ingredients
      Hypochlorite (NaOCl) about 5%. Besides being used as bleach and cleaning stains, it is also used for disinfecting (disinfecting germs). In general, whitening agents sold on the market are safe to use during use in accordance with the instructions. In addition to the stain, this substance can also react with the dye clothes so that it can fade the color of clothing. Therefore, the use of this bleach should be as directed.
      - How bleach can remove stubborn stains on white clothing?
      - In bleach ingredients contain Ca (ClO2) hypochlorite usually known as chlorine, and bleach solution containing sodium hypochlorite (NaClO). The bleach will oxidize the impurities so that the impurities will dissolve in water
      Side Effects of Bleach Usage
      - Clothing whitening generally contains chlorine compounds that can damage fabric fibers and clothing colors.
      - Chlorine compounds can also cause skin irritation.
      - Skin whitening ingredients that contain mercury or excessive mercury can damage the nervous system
      Prevention
      Prevention that can be done for the use of bleach, among others:
      - Avoid using bleach types containing mercury.
      - Only use bleach products if dirt or stains are difficult to remove by soap or detergent.

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  3. Unknown30 April 2017 pukul 06.52

    Are all chemicals harmful? What causes its dangerous?

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    1. Unknown3 Mei 2017 pukul 08.28

      The nature of chemicals is like human nature, there is good there is evil, so just choose which one which friend to be resisted ... If want to think, is not everything we eat and we breathe every day it chemicals?

      Try, Gas that we breathe every day what? Oxygen right ... the formula is O2.
      The rice we eat contains what hayo? Carbohydrates is not it? The formula (C6H12O6) n.
      What do we drink each day? Water. The formula is H2O.
      What cooking ingredients tastes salty? Salt. The chemical language is sodium chloride (NaCl).
      What is a sweet giver? Sugar. The chemical language is sucrose (C12H22O11).

      Hmmm, it turns out everything in the kitchen including chemicals well.

      So throw away thoughts thinking "chemicals = dangerous"

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  4. Yola1 Mei 2017 pukul 05.07

    How can love related to chemistry? Please explain more.

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    1. Unknown3 Mei 2017 pukul 08.30

      Based on research, there is a compound that is initiated in the human body when a person is in love. This compound could be one of the factors in household harmony and happiness of life. One of the compounds is phenylethylamine. Another compound is the "happiness hormones" responsible for all the upset of humans when falling in love is:
      * Pheromones: make a crush on someone, make ngelamunn .. and imagine him continue
      * Oxytocin: make kangennn, want to see the person banya ajah-liat doang few seconds
      * Vasopressin: make faithful, "you know you are the only one .."
      * Norepinephrine: make the spirit, hepi, cheerful, happy, want to smile continues, so the more canti / handsome


      The chemicals explain our behavior as we begin to fall in love. These chemicals travel to parts of the brain that regulate our emotions and memory:

      * Dopamine Say I'm Crazy About You

      In the first few months when you have a crush on someone, there is a part of your brain that releases this substance. Even if the amount of this substance is just a little, that's enough to give you the sense of flying you feel when you're in love.

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  5. Atmajun123.blogspot.com3 Mei 2017 pukul 00.11


    Can you give us a kima example in medicine?

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    1. Unknown3 Mei 2017 pukul 08.34


      The natural field of medicine required various analyzes to determine the various elements or compounds in the sample such as blood, urine, hair, bones, and so on. In the medical field required various analyzes to determine various elements or compounds in samples such as blood, urine, hair, bone, etc
      In the field of industry, health professions and other fields of chemical analysis provide a role that is not small. Utilization of chemical analysis in the field of medicine such as: used to make chemicals often used as drugs.
      Drugs
      From a variety of medicines for medical purposes that are already known in the market, for example some kinds of drugs Cough: Cough medicine contains expectorant substances and anti allergic substances. Like anti-influenza drugs, cough medicine should not be used continuously. Diarrhea: Diarrhea medicine is atsorptive so it can absorb toxins from the body. Active substances in the form of activated carbon, silicon dioxide, kaolin, and pectin, but it can also be used substances that are astringent that can shrink the tissues that make it rapidly for example tannin contained in the concentrated or leaf. Flu: Usually, a drug to relieve the disease is called an influenza drug that is usually caused by a virus. The composition of the flu drug consists of analgesic, anti piretik, decongestant, and allergy medication. Antibiotics: Antibiotics are substances obtained from micro organisms that can kill other micro organisms. Most contain chemicals

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  6. Harry Ismoyo22 Mei 2017 pukul 22.14

    How does baking powder and baking soda make food rise?

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    1. Unknown23 Mei 2017 pukul 08.58

      Because it contains sodium bicarbonate and sodium acids

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