CalciumEmily McCarthy 9H

Characteristics Of Calcium

Name- Cassie Calcium

Nickname- Ca

Date Of Birth- 1808

Birth Weight- 40.078

Birth Height- 20

Race- Metal

Attending Physician- Sir Humphry Davy

Gender- Solid

Place of Birth- England

Personality:

Boiling Point- 1484 degrees celsius

Melting Point- 842 degrees celsius

How to Pronounce: Calcium

Cal-See-UmUm…..

Birth Certificate Country of England

Attending Physician

Sir Humphry Davy Date Of Birth 1860

First Name Cassie Last Name CalciumMother’s First

Name Cathy Father’s First Name Cameron

Last Name Calcium Last Name CalciumMothers

Maiden Name Alkaline Parents Birthdate

Father: 1840 Mother: 1836

Hospital Mendeleev General Time of Birth 17.13pm

Attending Physician’s Signature

Sir Humphry

DavyDate 1860

Weight 40.078 Height 20

Baby’s First Picture

20Cassie

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Calcium, a metal. Living in,

family of alkaline. Comes from the,atin word for ‘lime’.

n 1808, Sir Humphry Davis discovered it.omposes 4.2% of the earths crust.

sed as a reducing agent in preparing other metals.ain component of teeth and bones! Wow!

Alkali Earth Metals

Cassie Calcium

Marnie Magnesium

Bob Beryllium

Sarah Strontium

Barry Barium

Raven Radium

Cassie’s Friends!

Calcium can be combined with may different elements to create many different compounds. Calcium can be combined with phosphate forming hydroxylapatite, which forms a mineral portion of human and animal bones and even teeth. Calcium hydroxide is made when heating limestone at above 825 degrees celsius and then carefully adding water to it. Calcium hydroxide is used in chemical refinery processes.

One of the most common compounds of calcium is calcium carbonate. Forms of calcium carbonate include chalk, marble and limestone. Calcium is heated to form quicklime which is then added to water. e.g. CaO + H2O = CaCO3. Other important compounds include calcium nitrate, calcium sulphide, calcium

chloride, calcium carbide, calcium cyanamide and calcium hypochlorite.

Cassie’s Career Choices!-Calcium Carbonate (limestone) can be used

directly as a building stone.

-Calcium Sulfate is the component of plaster, also used, as ‘plaster of Paris, for setting bones.

-Calcium is used in vacuum tubes as a getter, a material that combines and removes trace gases from

vacuum tubes.

-Calcium salts are used to produce a deep orange

colour in fireworks!

-Being the main component of teeth and

bones.

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Helmenstine, about.com, 2014

‘Calcium (Ca)’, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/88956/calcium-Ca/1018/Compounds, Timothy.P. Hanusa, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4-3-2014

‘Calcium’, http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/20/calcium, unknown, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014

‘Group 1: The Alkali Metals’, http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Inorganic_Chemistry/Descriptive_Chemistry/s-Block_Elements/Group__1%3A_The_Alkali_Metals, Kellie Burman and Nilshita Devi, ChemWiki, unknown

‘The Element Calcium’, http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele020.html,Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Jefferson Lab, 25-7-2014