"Your
Home - It's All Built on Chemistry"
This
year's National Chemistry Week celebration will take place October 22-28
and the theme concerns your home and the chemicals used in its construction.
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 home building industry. page
info
| Product: | Compound: | Page prepared by: |
| Insulation | Soy-Based Polyurethane | Tiffany Adams |
| Wood | Cellulose | Ryan Adkins |
| Paint thinner | Toluene | Whitney Armstrong |
| Wires/ plumbing | Copper | Lorraine Bowman |
| Roofing Tar | Carbon disulfide | Lucreshia Doaks |
| Siding | Aluminum | Kasey Frans |
| Avonite Surfaces | Poly(methyl 2-methylpropenoate) | Jennifer Gil |
| Building materials | Formaldehyde | Keisha Graham |
| Bricks | Kaolinite | Amanda Harvey |
| Solar panels | Amorphus silicon | Mallory Kaimiola |
| Glass | Aluminosilicate Glass | Drew Kauffman |
| Dry Wall | Gypsum | Will Little |
| Level | Ethylene Glycol | Catherine Mathis |
| Carpet backing | Styrene Butadiene | Karen Meyers |
| Siding | Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) | Megan Morrison |
| Cement | Magnesium chloride | Benjamin Quaye |
| Insulation | Polystyrene | Brandon Rivera |
| Tile | Chrysotile | Casey Robinson |
| Silicone caulk | Polydimethylsiloxane | Kristen Shelton |
| Caulk | Urethane | Hunter Smith |
| Stainless | Stainless steel | Jeremy Smith |
| Adhesives | Polyvinyl Acetate | Shaun Smith |
| Paint | Titanium oxide | Megan Steed |
| Marble | Calcium Carbonate | Krystal Wagster |
| Flooring | Polyurethane | Amy Ward |
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updated 10/14/06