` CHEMISTRY PROJECT ON PRESENCE OF INSECTICIDES IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES A PROJECT REPORT Submitted by VAISHAKH MURALEEDHARAN Class: XII-A JANUARY 2015 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY SHANTINIKETAN INDIAN SCHOOL DOHA-QATAR SHANTINIKETAN INDIAN SCHOOL‚ DOHA – QATAR Affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education‚ Delhi. Approved by the Ministry of Education‚ State of Qatar. BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this project report entitled “CHEMISTRY PROJECT ON” PRESENCE
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research a famous case of water pollution. After 30 minutes‚ each group will summarize what they have learned for the class. Love Canal: http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm Minamata disease: http://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/hs/minamata2002/ DDT and Silent Spring: http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp Exxon Valdez oil spill: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill Brockovich:
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The Search for Better Health 1. What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties of defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ Health is a state of physical‚ mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. Disease is any condition that affects the proper functioning of a body. It is any disturbance of structure or function of the body of an organism generally associated with characteristic of symptoms and structural changes to the body. These
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Modern Agriculture: Its Effects on the Environment Agriculture has been a major component of the United States economy ever since colonial days‚ when 9 out of 10 working persons were employed on a farm. Produclivity of American agriculture has tripled since then‚ and today only 3 percent of our labor force produces enough food and fiber to meet domestic needs as well as supplying about 10 percent of total overseas consumption. This huge increase in efficiency has been the result of many factors
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Accessibility to clean water(Problems associated) Vietnam is considered as one of the world’s most populated country in the worth since ranked thirteenth in recent survey. Vietnam has a river count of about 2360 rivers in the country with its length of more than 10km. These rivers serve as important economic values and use. There have been very causes of water pollution which deprives most people in Vietnam access to clean water or even water at all. The ecosystem around Vietnam’s rivers is eventually
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Agelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals Arsenic: Used in rat poisons Benzene: Used in making dyes‚ synthetic rubber Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas Cadmium: Used in batteries Cyanide: Deadly poison DDT: A banned insecticide Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals Lead: Poisonous in high doses Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens Methoprene: Insecticide Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice Maltitol: Sweetener
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America was once a hustling and bustling titan of industry‚ pumping out new products and mining our beautiful lands for our precious resources that made us the powerhouse we were. Sadly‚ during the Great Hippie Uprising of the 60’s and early 70’s‚ those acid fueled teenageres decided that they hated America’s success‚ claiming that various industries were “destroying the environment” or that they were “releasing countless cancer causing chemicals into the water sources” or other random pieces of
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E-CIG For hundreds of years smoking cigarettes has been a big part of our culture in fact in 1930s people believed that smoking cigarettes was harmless. Now with knowledge of the many negative side effects many alternatives and mediums have arrived to the scene. The most of common of the alternatives is the E-cigarettes or "vape". E-cigarettes appear to give the same rush of smoking regular cigarettes without the unwelcoming odor or nicotine‚ giving the illusion that it is basically harmless.
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AST20211 Environment and Health UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Definition of Environment‚ Health and Disease Environmental Problems Food Borne Diseases Intervention and Control AST20211 Environment and Health What is environment…? • The sum total of our surroundings‚ including all the living and nonliving things with which we interact. • Living things • Animals‚ plants‚ forests‚ fungi‚ etc. • Nonliving things • Continents‚ oceans‚ clouds‚ soil‚ rocks •
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BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION Biodiversity is determined by the variety of species extant in a specific ecosystem; this includes both animals and plants. Biodiversity is what gives an ecosystem a continuing and symbiotic relationship between all the organic and inorganic elements; maintaining the proper balance of different gases such as nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ hydrogen‚ carbon dioxide and many other elements‚ which differ in composition depending on the type of environment (such as subterranean‚ aquatic
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