Contribution of chemistry and

other sciences to the advances

of humanityChemistry Report

Group: 115

Team Members

Jorge Eduardo Leal Garza

Elias Perez

Daniel Pagaza Loera

Due Date: August 14, 2012

Introduction

In this report, subjects such as the uses of copper, silicon

and petroleum in daily modern life and it what kind of

products it’s used in.

DevelopmentCopper: Its most prominent features are very high thermal

and electric conductivity, corrosion resistance and easy

machinability therefore used as a constituent of various

metal alloys, in plumbing systems and good quality roofing

and cladding, it also provides the essential services inside

equipment in houses, offices, commercial and industrial

buildings.

Silicon: It’s the principal

component of most

semiconductor devices,

most importantly integrated

circuits or microchips.

Silicon dioxide is used as

raw material to produce elemental silicon and silicon carbide.

Silicon chips are the basis of modern electronic and

computing, medical products, consumer products, food

processing, personal and household care, among others

Petroleum: Most cars, trucks and planes are powered by fuel

made from oil, factories, plastics, paint, medicines, soaps

and electricity.

DiagramPersonal reflection

Chemistry applies basically in everything we eat,

are, use or have on a daily basis, it’s a really

important and big matter. Just as chemistry makes

technology advance, technology makes chemistry

advance a lot too, for example we wouldn’t know so

much about the universe or anything alive without

things like the microscope, the telescope, satelites

and rocketships.

BIBLIOGRAPHYInformation from:

✤Summer Course Activities

✤ Chemistry and other sciences

✤ From the stone age to the silicon

age

✤ Diagram made in https://bubbl.us

Images from:

✤http://www.chemistrycentral.com/a

bout/advocacy13

✤http://www.theinnovationdiaries.co

m/1188/pros-and-cons-of-petroleum-

energy/

✤http://www.etftrends.com/2012/06/c

opper-etfs-slump-on-china-

slowdown-fears/

✤ http://www.galleries.com/Silicon