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Lesson 1: Meet the chemistry professionalIntroduction to "Meet a chemistry professional"
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what are all the types of vitamin's use for and what do they help you with?(4 votes)
In humans there are 13 vitamins:
Vitamin A — Essential for vision
Vitamin B1 — Helps convert food into energy and is necessary for nerve cell function.
Vitamin B2 — Helps convert food into energy and helps the production of red blood cells.
Vitamin B3 — Helps convert food into energy; essential for healthy skin.
Vitamin B5 — Helps convert food into energy; helps make fats, steroid hormones, and hemoglobin.
Vitamin B6 — Important in the production of several hormones and for making red blood cells.
Vitamin B12 — Crucial for making new cells and nerve cell regulation.
Vitamin C — Important in wound healing; acts as an antioxidant.
Vitamin D — Helps the body absorb calcium and phosphorus.
Vitamin E — Helps to combat free radicals; acts as an antioxidant.
Vitamin K — Makes the blot clot.
Biotin — Helps convert food into energy
Folate — Vital for new cell creation.(19 votes)
Well. What things do you work on during engineering chemistry?(5 votes)
I need a topic for my A-levels presentation which I will be holding with chemistry as my main subject. Could anyone suggest some topics which I could use/orient myself with? Possibly something that is relevant today.(3 votes)
Relevant chemistry topics could include:
-fuel cells (e.g. electrodes, transition-metal based hydrogen storage devices)
-biodegradable plastics
-the use of radioisotopes for medical imaging and diagnosis
-sources and/or sinks of environmental pollutants in our air, soil and/or water
-naturally occurring plant and animal toxins as inspiration for pharmaceutical drugs
-engineering biological systems (e.g. bacteria) to synthesize pharmaceutical drugs ("biosynthesis")(4 votes)
It would be great to be able to meet chemist live, so to interact and just ask questions about profession. Chemistry is an amazing subject.(2 votes)
why do drugs make you act differently?(2 votes)
It could be because of what a person takes like dietary supplements or it could be because of their genetic makeup, age, body size and use of other drugs, there's so many reasons why someone reacts to a drug differently(1 vote)
how can we, high school students get into such interesting jobs? i just want u to give a rough sketch of the courses to be opted?(2 votes)
It depends. Some high schools offer diverse courses such as forensics. But I would suggest taking as many chemistry courses as your school offers. You may also want to take statistics and/or engineering classes depending on the field you are interested in.(1 vote)
- What we can do with chemistry(1 vote)
- many things like making medicines
studying we get to know the properties of different elements which in turn help us use them in different area related to tech or elect etc.(2 votes)
- Saence is spelled wrong, it must be Science.(1 vote)
A 'c' and an 'i' written too close together look like an 'a'.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- [Voiceover] Have you ever wondered what a chemist really does? In this series we asked people
with chemistry backgrounds to share their stories. We have people from all
different fields and careers. For example, we have
an interview of someone who works in forensics, which is closely related
to analytical chemistry. We also have people from the field of science illustration and medicine. Since if you've ever
thought about being pre-med, or doing anything else
related to medicine, you probably know by now
that you'll be taking a fair number of chemistry classes. We have someone who works
in industry as a researcher developing new products. We also have someone who
works as a programmer at Khan Academy actually. We have a bunch of other
interviews for careers where it was a little
harder to find pictures, but they're all really cool jobs. We have fields that are covered include patent law and science media, which includes things
like making and producing and hosting science TV shows. We have an engineer who was not a chemistry major but had to take some chemistry classes, and ended up using chemistry in her job. We have an epidemiologist, which is a really hard
word to spell, miologist. It's also a really
interesting career, and more. We hope to continue
adding to this collection of interviews over time,
so please check back. But hopefully you can tell from this list that all of these people
who studied chemistry are doing a lot of different things. So there's a lot of ways
you can use chemistry as part of your career after school. We hope you find these interviews
interesting and helpful in figuring out what you
might want to do as a career.