29.1.07
The Autobiography of Nickel
Hello. My name is Nickel. And don’t worry, all you speakers of German, I’m the element, and I have nothing to do with the devil, which is for some reason my namesake. I was singled out by humans in 1751 by a Swedish man named Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. He discovered me by reducing dissolved iron with charcoal. He actually named me after the dirty, useless substance that contained me that was released during iron production. My atomic number is 28. I have a white-metallic color, and have a consistency similar to iron. I melt at about 2,651° F (1,455° C) and boil at about 5,275°F (2,913°C). I am quite un-corrosive, and so one of my chief uses is to be bonded with other metals to protect them. I can make stainless-steel, armored steel plates, and I can be electroplated (coat on a molecular level) to metals to make coins that keep their shine and printing for decades.
14.1.07
Reading Assignment #1
1. Phlogiston is the substance something becomes when it is burned.
2. Most of alchemy was random people trying anything and everything to get to an impossible goal, but sometimes, they found useful information along the way.
3. If a substance reacts with an acid, it will generate positively charged hydrogen ions. If it reacts with a base, it will create negatively charged hydroxide ions.
4. They were gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, mercury, carbon, and sulfer.
5. Arsenic, in 1250 by Albertus Magnus, and Phosphorus, in 1669 by Hennig Brandt.
6. I don not believe that these quests have ever stopped, but I do believe that the search for wealth and youth has moved away from the scientific community and has been taken up by the business and marketing organizations. Many products now-a-days assert "youthful looks", and weather they work or not, corporations are using this unending search to make a quick buck off the teaming throngs of buyers trying anything to reach their goals.
2. Most of alchemy was random people trying anything and everything to get to an impossible goal, but sometimes, they found useful information along the way.
3. If a substance reacts with an acid, it will generate positively charged hydrogen ions. If it reacts with a base, it will create negatively charged hydroxide ions.
4. They were gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, mercury, carbon, and sulfer.
5. Arsenic, in 1250 by Albertus Magnus, and Phosphorus, in 1669 by Hennig Brandt.
6. I don not believe that these quests have ever stopped, but I do believe that the search for wealth and youth has moved away from the scientific community and has been taken up by the business and marketing organizations. Many products now-a-days assert "youthful looks", and weather they work or not, corporations are using this unending search to make a quick buck off the teaming throngs of buyers trying anything to reach their goals.