Mummification Report
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Introduction
Mummification is an ancient Egyptian method which is a natural or deliberate process intended to dehydrate the body to preserve it. They done this because they believed that if a body was left to rot then it would destroy their soul, so they believed that the body needed to be intact to serve as host for the soul. So they preserved bodies so they could use them in the afterlife, where the Egyptians believed they would make a journey to another life. To start to mummify a body, the first step is to push a sharp rod up the nose and into the brain to break it into small enough pieces to be removed out through the nose. Next a hole is made in the body to remove all the organs apart from the heart and then they stored these organs in jars and filled the hole back up with linen and spices. After this, the body would then be left to dry by using a salt (natron) mixture called a mummion which absorbed all the moisture from the body to dry it out, and then it was wrapped up in linen bandages. Mummion is an inorganic solid that is obtained from dried up lake beds and it used to mummify the dead bodies.
I am going to explain what Ions are including Cations and Anions because it is the background information needed to carry out this investigation. An ion is an atom or molecule which the total number of electrons isn’t equal to the total number of protons giving the atom a positive or negative electrical charge. When an atom is attracted to another atom because it has an unequal number of electrons and protons, the atom is called an Ion. If the atom has more electrons than protons this means that it’s a negatively charged ion or Anion. Different anions include carbonate, fluoride, nitrate and oxide. Cations are particles with a positive charge and are formed when one atom loses electrons whereas anions have particles with a negative charge and are formed when an atom gains electrons. The purpose of these experiments I am going to carry out is to
Introduction
Mummification is an ancient Egyptian method which is a natural or deliberate process intended to dehydrate the body to preserve it. They done this because they believed that if a body was left to rot then it would destroy their soul, so they believed that the body needed to be intact to serve as host for the soul. So they preserved bodies so they could use them in the afterlife, where the Egyptians believed they would make a journey to another life. To start to mummify a body, the first step is to push a sharp rod up the nose and into the brain to break it into small enough pieces to be removed out through the nose. Next a hole is made in the body to remove all the organs apart from the heart and then they stored these organs in jars and filled the hole back up with linen and spices. After this, the body would then be left to dry by using a salt (natron) mixture called a mummion which absorbed all the moisture from the body to dry it out, and then it was wrapped up in linen bandages. Mummion is an inorganic solid that is obtained from dried up lake beds and it used to mummify the dead bodies.
I am going to explain what Ions are including Cations and Anions because it is the background information needed to carry out this investigation. An ion is an atom or molecule which the total number of electrons isn’t equal to the total number of protons giving the atom a positive or negative electrical charge. When an atom is attracted to another atom because it has an unequal number of electrons and protons, the atom is called an Ion. If the atom has more electrons than protons this means that it’s a negatively charged ion or Anion. Different anions include carbonate, fluoride, nitrate and oxide. Cations are particles with a positive charge and are formed when one atom loses electrons whereas anions have particles with a negative charge and are formed when an atom gains electrons. The purpose of these experiments I am going to carry out is to