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What products have elements from the perodic table?
Q. What products have elements from the perodic table like sodium, copper, silver, potassium, nickel, iron, chlorine, etc... I need products that can be found at home. I have a project which requires 20 products from 20 different elements. It could be pure samples of that element, compound or mixture. I the project I need prove so I need the labels of the product.
Asked by Walter M - Wed Oct 11 17:37:56 2006 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Everything on Earth is made up of the elements in the periodic table. Take anything in your house and look at the label. The ingredients will mostly be compounds but you can look the compounds up on wikipedia and it will tell you what elements are in them.
Answered by MataHari - Wed Oct 11 17:39:25 2006

What are some products where the desirable is the product from undesirable reactants?
Q. What are some products where the desirable is the product from undesirable reactants?and how is it made? (such as plastic bags, using crude oil, but how are they made??)
Asked by Leah B - Tue Jul 10 10:39:03 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I guess what you are asking is what useful products are made from poisonous starting materials. The best example I could give you is polycarbonate (Thick- clear plastic - sparklets water bottles). They use phosgene and bisphenol-A. Bisphenol-A is a diphenol and phosgene is a deadly poison (COCl2) ref: ref: COCl2 + HO-R-OH --> --((C=O)-O-R-O-)-- ref: There are many other polymers made with toxic monomers. Hexamethylene diamine used to made nylon is highly toxic: ref: NH2(CH2)4NH2 + COOH(CH2)4COOH --> --(COHN(CH2)6NHCO(CH2)4-) - ref: ref: there are countless other examples - these are just two..
Answered by Dr Dave P - Tue Jul 10 11:09:22 2007

What products, today, were the result of a mistake to create a different product?
Q. I've heard that 3M's Post-It Notes were the result of a mistake to create a new super glue. And that Kellogg's Corn Flakes were invented when the Kellogg brothers mistakely left their kettle cook too long when trying to create a different food product. And that the Chinese were trying to develop a health product that would result in immortality -- which failed -- but is being used today as gunpowder. Do you know of other products that were created as a by-product of mistakenly trying to create something else?
Asked by lifesaverkid - Sat Mar 8 23:04:11 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The original penicillin was discovered by accident. I can't recall what the circumstances were, but know that it was almost not noticed that the new stuff had obliterated some bacteria.
Answered by The Snappy Miss Pippi Von Trapp - Sun Mar 9 01:20:21 2008