Last Homework Assignment

For your last homework assignment, choose 20 items around you in your world and list their ingredients or materials down to the molecular level. List the chemical names of the ingredients and show a molecular structure image.

1. Chewing Gum
    a. chicle

    b. mastiche (organic)

    c. rubber (sythetic)

2. Soy Sauce
    a. Water

    b. Salt

    c. potassium sorbate

3. Brown Sugar
    a. sugar (sucrose)

    b. molasses (sodium N- oyclohexylsulfamale)

4. Sugar
    a. sucrose

5. Flour
    a. sugar sucrose

    b. cornstarch (carbohydrates)

6. Paper
    a. cellulose

7. Table Salt
    a. Sodium chloride

8. Candle
    a. Paraffin

    b. stearic acid

    c. beeswax

9. Caffeine
    a. caffeine

10. Ranch
      a. water

      b. sugar

      c. salt

      d. vinegar

      e. phospheric acid

      f. xantham gum

      g. modified food starch

      h. disodium phosphate

      i. sorbic acid

11. Cooking Pan
      a. Aluminum

12. Toothpaste
      a. Sodium Flouride

13. Lysterine
      a. water

      b. alcohol

      c. benzoic acid

      d. sodium benzoate

      e. caramel

      f. eucalyptol

      g. methyl

      h. methyl salicylate

      i. thymol

14. Lipstick
      a. wax

      b. oil

      c. alcohol

      d. pigment

15. Vegtable oil
      a. soy bean oil (stearic acid)

16. Clorox Fabric Spray
      a. sugar sucrose

      b. cornstarch (carbohydrates)

17. Milk
      a. Low fat milk (lactose)

      b. Vitamin A palmitrate

      c. Vitamin D

18. Apple Juice
      a. Apple juice

      b. ascorbic acid (vitamin c)

      c. malic acid

19. Mens Deodorant (Red Zone)

      a. Diropylene Glycol

      c. Water

      d. propylene glycol

      e. sodium sterate

      f. fragrance

      h. PPG-3 myristyl 1

      i. ether

      j. tetrasodium EDTA

      k. Blue 1

20. Ketchup
      a. tomato

      b. distilled vinegar

      c. high fructose corn syrup

      d. salt


I had no idea all of these chemicals were in the products that I use/other people use on a daily basis. When I used or bought a product I only looked at it as one substance. But in actuallity its many substances that make up one.