Posts Tagged ‘Science’

Using Kids Science Kits To Make Learning Fun

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Science should even be cool for girls. A lot of girls shy away from science without realizing that chemistry and technology is the basis for many of the products they use on a daily basis – like lip gloss, cosmetics, cell phones and texting. A good science kit can help girls (and boys) realize that a lot of the day to day products they take for granted were created by scientists.

If you’re looking to get your daughter interested in science, consider some of the science in box products by the Scientific Explorer. These kits are developed in cooperation with notable universities and scientists around the country and provide clear and easy instructions on how to use them – plus an explanation of the science behind them.

Best of all, the manufacturer has several great kits which are geared towards girls. If you have a daughter who longs for a spa day, then get her the Spa Science Kit – she’ll get to make her own spa treatments by mixing (safe) chemical and ingredients. There are even bottles and labels so she can make her own products to give (or sell) to friends and family. The Spa Science Kit is super hands on and super fun and will make your daughter think in a whole different way about what is in her bottle of shampoo.

The Medicine and Nuclear Science

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Hal Anger, a nuclear scientist, was the man who invented the gamma camera. Is a medical device, a camera, that is used to look at the internal organs and how they are functioning at the time. He invented it back in the 1950′s and it is still around today, nearly 70 years later.

The gamma camera works by through gamma rays. The patient is given a solution to drink or injected with a solution that contains a low level of radiation that will emit gamma rays. Depending on the organ that is being target to be looked at, a different type of solution is given. The reason for this is because certain types and mixes of the solution will be absorbed by different organs.

Once the solution is in the patient, they are then put under the gamma camera. The first part of the camera to receive the gamma rays coming from the patient is a part called a collimator. Like a colander that strains liquid from the solid, the nuclear medicine collimator on the gamma camera channels all of the gamma rays into the camera head that is full of crystals. What happens from there and how that becomes an image that you can see and make a diagnosis from is some complicated nuclear science stuff that most people do not understand anyways.

The Basics of Astronomy

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

One of the most interesting subjects imaginable, knowledge of the science of Astronomy is something that all of us should possess. The basics of the science of astronomy can be easily understood and once you have grasped this knowledge you can carry out a lot of self reading on the subject to gain a deeper knowledge about the various facets of the science. In this article we are going to talk about the various basics of Astronomy.

Astronomy can be defined to be the science which deals with the matter of the earth, its neighboring planets, the environment and the mass which surrounds these as well as other studies that can be said to be a part of their periphery. However, if we really were to define the scope of the subject of Astronomy, it would encompass the entirety of the study of just about everything around us and our planet.

About The Elemental Analysis

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

When an element is analyzed for its elemental properties it is known as Elemental Analysis. This is a process which uses a sample of material, and this sample is analyzed for its elemental and quite often its isotopic composition.

By using this process, the elements which are present can be determined; this is known as ‘qualitive’, and the process can also determine how much of each element is present and this is known as ‘quantitive’.

This is a part of analytical chemistry, and this means the set of instruments involved in deciphering the worlds chemical nature.

Organic chemists use elemental analysis, and for them this generally refers to CHNX analysis. CHNX analysis refers to determination of the percentage weights of;

• Hydrogen
• Carbon
• Halogens
• Nitrogen
• Heteroatoms

This type of information is very important and helps to determine the structures of compounds, and also to find out the purity and structure of a synthesized compound.

As mentioned before, ‘quantitive’ analysis is the determination of the quantity of each element present and some of the quantitive methods which are employed may be;