Saturday, May 03, 2008

Chemistry of Materials Web Sites - Chemical Compounds of Plants & Animals

If you are looking for resources and information, about chemical compounds in plants and animals, for your Chemistry of Materials project (my February, 25, 2008 post and December 2, 2009)
http://cavalierscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/coordinated-science-ii-chemistry.html
http://cavalierscience.blogspot.com/2009/12/chemistry-of-materials-project.html

try this web site:  http://waynesword.palomar.edu/chemid1.htm

Here is an additional web site that you can browse through to find out chemical information: http://www.newtonsapple.tv/TeacherGuides_alphabet.php#
You might also find some useful information on this web site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_and_discoveries
Here is a helpful web site from Chemical and Engineering News:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html
If your material is a polymer or plastic, here are some web sites that might have some information that you can use:
http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_plastics/sec_learning.asp?CID=1571&DID=5957
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/delaware/teacher/science/assets/webquest.html
This web site is called Ask a Chemist, and there are a lot of answers on here that might have helpful information:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem98.htm
Explorations of Everyday Chemical Compounds - Compound Interest
http://www.compoundchem.com/

More interesting web sites:

All About Paper
http://www.hqpapermaker.com/paper-history/
Hall of Fame – Invention Channels: Chemistry
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_4_5_chem.asp
Historical Facts – Toilet Paper
http://encyclopedia.toiletpaperworld.com/toilet-paper-history
How is Vinyl Made?
http://vinylinfo.org/WhatIsVinyl/HowisVinylMade.aspx
How Food Preservation Works
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-preservation.htm/printable
Paper University – Where Students and Teachers Explore the World of Paper!
http://www.tappi.org/paperu/welcome.htm
Plast-O-Matic (Plastics)
http://pbskids.org/wayback/future/plastics/index.html
The Chemistry of Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
http://www.cefic.org/Templates/shwNewsFull.asp?HID=1&NSID=656&P=1&NID=469
The History of the Kellogg Company: Invention of Flaked Cereal
http://www.
kellogg.com.au/Home/Company/StudyCentre/Kellogghistory/Inventionofflakedcereal/tabid/128/%20Study%20Centre/Default.aspx

United States Patent and Trademark Office; Kids’ Pages
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/
What’s That Stuff? Food Preservatives
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/8045/8045sci2.html
What’s That Stuff? Paper
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/paper.html