A new approach to chemistry.

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  1. Brett Nortje

    Brett Nortje Well-Known Member

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    One of the most daunting things in school is learning the periodic table, and i want to change the approach to it, i hear - my soothsayer said i must do this, but she didn't explain exactly what it is. i guess it is about a new approach to high school and college chemistry, of course.

    So, if you were to add chemicals together, you will get a new mixture. all mixtures are unique if they have different chemicals, obviously. then, there is the ever present concept of acidity. i wonder how i will factor that in?

    Anyways, if you were to observe organic chemistry, you will find that it usually deals with the same elements as usual, being, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. these are the most common things in our bodies, of course. so, if you want to become a doctor, you need to understand all these things very well, of course.

    Then, there are mixtures of them. if you were to add hydrogen to two oxygen atoms, you will get water, and our blood is mainly made up of water. if you were to observe 'health,' - that is how healthy you are, you need a balance in your system. this must come down to the body being made of about ninety percent blood and the rest is bone and skin. then there are organs, which, are also thin and filled with blood.

    If you were to want to have your health appraised by a blood test, you need a few things in you blood. but, how can we appraise your health without a blood test - needles are messy! i guess we need to just measure heart rate, as, the heart rate will show whether the blood circulating is healthy or not, as, the blood will only circulate, pumping through the heart, if certain things are met, yes?

    This means that if the heart rate is off for the person's weight, then there is a problem. actually, you can rate it to nearly each second per weight, let's say for each kilogram, they need a beat a second, or something? this will show us whether their blood is full of fuels and stuff, and the things they need, of course.

    So, as soon as we find that out, we can just use a stethoscope to give someone a clean bill of health. then, we could check - through estimates from weight to heart beat ratios - where we will be able to rectify the health situation with a simple recommended list of things to do, a choice if you will, with ways to reach the right heart rate.
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    Please learn some more chemistry (or at least the correct English terminology). Water for example is not a "mixture" of hydrogen and oxygen. It is a compound made when hydrogen and oxygen combine. A compound and a mixture have different definitions in chemistry in English. If you add elements together, sometimes you get mixtures, sometimes you get compounds. Basically speaking, if you can separate the new substance via physical means, it's a mixture. If you have to resort to chemical means, it's a compound. This is basic chemistry from the first month or so of class.

    Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon. It looks at how carbon combines in different ways both with itself and with other elements--hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen being the main three, although others are involved as well. IMHO, organic chemistry is primarily a way to weed pre-meds out. There are some applications to medicine, but primarily, I think it is because it is a very complicated subject that involves a lot of knowledge of processes, a lot of memorization, and attention to detail. All things that a doctor needs. (and I say this as somebody who has completed a pre-med curriculum, albeit without the intent to be a physician).

    The periodic table is fairly simple. It categorizes the elements, allowing you to make conclusions based simply on looking at an element's position in the periodic table versus having to memorize every thing.
     

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