"The
Joy of Toys"
Thisyear's National Chemistry Week celebration will take place October 16-22 and the theme is "The Joy of Toys".
For this year's project, each student
in the Descriptive Inorganic class will prepare a web page and a PowerPoint
presentation that focuses on chemical compounds used in the toys that we
play with. page
info
| Toy: | Compound: | Page prepared by: |
| Nickolodeon's Green Slime | sodium borate | Brittany Burton |
| The Sims 2 | copper phthalocyanine | Gwen Cain |
| Beach Ball | PVC polyvinylchloride | Sheng-kuei Chui |
| Nerf Balls | polyurethane | Jillian Church |
| Taz Plush Toy | terephthalic acid | Rachael Crookshanks |
| Silly Putty | titanium dioxide | Donna Fires |
| Play-Doh | sodium chloride | Joshua Green |
| Crayons | octadecanoic acid | Michael Graham |
| Golf clubs | graphite | Andy Harp |
| Crayons | talc (magnesium silicate hydroxide) | Summer Haynes |
| Lava Lamp | tetraethyene chloride | Courtney Hollis |
| Glow sticks | zinc sulfide | Jared Hyman |
| Lava Lamp | paraffin | Elizabeth Izmerian |
| Soap bubbles | glycerol | Sarah Mardanlou |
| Light sticks | hydrogen peroxide | Terra Nichols |
| Fireworks | calcium and carbon | Robert Redd |
| Silly Putty | polydimethylsiloxane | Rian Snell |
| Super Ball | sodium silicate | Adam Steuart |
| Chalk | calcium carbonate | Melanie Weathers |
| Koosh balls | polyisoprene | Stephanie Whitmore |
| Super Ball | polybutadiene | Amy Yankee |
| Disappearing ink | thymolphthalein | Josh Yarboro |
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updated 10/11/05