Cheatography
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Today we have a variety of chemical products such as soaps and detergents, paints, plastic, medicines, perfumes, flavours, dyes, fertilisers, herbicides, insecticides and many synthetic materials.
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Soap
Soap- water soluble sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids |
+Saponification |
Fats + sodium hydroxide -> soap + glycerol
Detergen
Detergent-non-soap cleansing agent (sodium salt of the organic acid known as sulphonic acid |
a)natural detergent b)synthetic detergent |
Functional group=(SO3-) / (0-SO3-) |
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Food Additives
Preservative |
sodium benzoate- prevent growth of bct & yeast |
sodium nitrite-longer shelf-life |
Antioxidant |
ascorbic acid -prevent damage due to oxidation |
ascorbyl palmitate -prevent damage due to oxidation |
vitamin E-prevent damage due to oxidation |
Flavouring agents |
monosodium glutamate(MSG)-enhance taste of food |
Aspartame- 200 X sweetness (OK in diabetes's patient food) |
Saccharin-artificial sweetener(increase 400 X sweetness) |
Stabiliser* /Thickener' |
gelatin',acacia gum,lecithin* |
starch',agar-agar ',pectin' |
Colouring agents |
tartrazine-normally added to soft drinks(orange) |
blue FCF-triphenyl compound (blue) |
Traditional medicine(DO NOT TRY!) |
Ginseng-roots-refresh,enhance body strength |
Aloe vera-juice from leaves-treat itchiness,wounds,burn |
Mint-leaves-increase body temp,induce sweat |
Cocain-anaesthetics |
Garlic-corm-antibiotics-reduce stickiness of platelets |
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