Look
around your house, apartment, or dorm room.
Do you have any personal care products (shampoo, soap, lotion,
cosmetics), cleaning products, or food?
For
this assignment, pick a product from around your house containing at least
three ingredients excluding water (if your product has more than three
ingredients, just pick three from the list) and write a 1 – 2 page essay for
each ingredient describing that ingredient.
Answer the following questions in your essay:
1. How is the ingredient manufactured?
2. What are the physical and chemical properties
of the ingredient?
3. What can you find out about the toxicity of
the ingredient?
4. What are some other uses for the ingredient?
Turn
in your paper on the due date indicated on the course schedule
(chem.winthrop.edu).
The
paper will be graded for content and writing using the homework grading rubric
on Dr. Hanna’s CHEM 101 page at chem.winthrop.edu
This
assignment must be typed using a 12-pt font, doubled spaced, with no more than
1 inch margins.