Chemistry Reading Competition

Horrible Science – Painful Poison

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Group members:

Wong Shuk Fan 3A (34)Yuen Wing Shan 3A (37)

Ma Chun Ping 3A (26)

Content Introduction

Reasons of finding it interesting Most impressive extract Applications of the ideas

Thoughts about Chemistry after reading

Comments

Poison: • a substance that upsets the chemical workings of your body• DEADLY

∵ our body cannot stay alive withoutchemical reactions!

Introduction

Introductionsome poisonous

plants

some poisonous animals

how to detectpoisons

some poisonous chemicals

safety precautions

interested in knowing how they work + different kinds of poisons

Title: Horrible Science – Painful Poison

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• know how painful and powerful poisons are from movies & books

Reasons of finding it intere

sting

• use of diaries, newspaper articles, warnings, magazines, etc.

2 Methods of interpretation

• amusing illustrations and language very interesting

Reasons of finding it intere

sting

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Do you know how many poisons do you

An “ORDINARY” mealBUT poisonous!From the book

take in regularly each day?

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• drink too much: upset the chemistry of nerve signals

Water is a poison!

feel confused and tired

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Salt is a poison!

• eat too much (quite a few tablespoonsful):

upset the chemistry of nerves

• contains 2 poisons – sodium & chlorine

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3Sugar is a poison!• draws water from body bits into

blood-can dry out a microbeonly scoff LOADS of sugar will

suffer this fate!

4Oxygen in air is a poison!O O

• essential for life• too much

• a molecule made up of

= loads of murderousmolecules messing up the vital chemical reactions

Don’t worry!

Normal healthy meals won’t do any harm to our body!

Only having huge amounts

Applications of the ideas

Before reading

Poisons: • things we don’t come

across in our daily lives• for military use/killing

people in detective stories

After reading

realize poisons are everywhere

Applications of the idease.g. water, salt, sugar

should pay attention to everything around us

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make a note of any poison dangers keep poisons out of reach of children

Applications of the ideas

After reading

learn that poisons are fatal2

do our to avoid theme.g.

Thoughts about Chemistry after readingclosely related to our daily

lives

CHEMISTRY:

help us live healthily and safely a bunch of weird vocabularies

& symbols

COMMENTSChoosing of contents: poisons from our daily lives to poisons used for special reasons

1interesting

methods of interpretation not too informative and wordy

COMMENTSwell-organised (different kinds of poisons introduced in different sections )

2clear & easy to follow

precise & concise easy words

COMMENTSwide range of content3can learn a lot from it

detailed descriptionrich chemistry knowledge

“Learning through entertainment”

COMMENTShelp realise that Chemistry

is much more than complicated symbols & vocabulary

4 inspiring

find out more about the interesting side of Chemistry

We highly recommend this book for students who want

to know more about Chemistry!

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The EndThank you!