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Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find a less expensive and healthier way to lower the hardness of water. The hypothesis is that electrical current surrounding a PVC water…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Many iron items are exposed to water. Though they are often protected by being alloyed to make steel or coated in zinc (galvanized), they all eventually rust. The purpose of…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Reaction rate is what determines when bombs go off, and how we digest food. But can you change the speed it occurs? In order to find this out, I took two possible factors, p…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is determine whether or not rinsing is an effective method of removing pesticides and preservatives from apples. Specifically, I tested Diphenylamine, a common…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Is it possible to cool your body down during exercise using chemical means? Through the application of chemicals to athletic garments, it is possible to make the sweat on th…
Chemistry
First Award
Objectives/Goals Porous silicon as a sensor is useful in many applications throughout the real world, from detecting toxins in the environment to monitoring levels of chemicals in the living…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project focuses on manipulating the electrical conductivity of different solutions via electrolysis. There were three types of water tested: hard, soft, and R.O.(water…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This study investigates the particular interaction between the current TZD drugs and its protein active site to help propose more efficacious analogs of this drug. Computati…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The generation of transition metal-stabilized organic cations under neutral conditions has long been sought after in the field of organometallic chemistry. Traditionally, un…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To determine whether household chemicals can be used to decompose acetaminophen, which would allow consumers to treat their expired medications so they will not pollute loca…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to explore the effects of R-groups with varying electronegativities on the structures of protein backbones through the determination of the ro…
Chemistry
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Marine natural products have demonstrated potential in treating cancer and other diseases. The goal of this experiment was to separate, recover, and identify structures of c…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals If TSC is increased in the solution, then the wavelength of visible light will increase because the size of the nanoparticle will increase. If PVP is increased, the waveleng…
Chemistry
Second Award
Objectives/Goals We in 8th grade have just started studying acids and pH. I wanted to utilize my limited after-school time to do experiments involving acids and learn practical aspects of ef…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To synthesize 2-methylpyridine-5-boronic acid and 3-fluoropyridine-5-boronic acid from 5-bromo-2-methylpyridine and 3-bromo-5-fluoropyridine respectively. Methods/Materials…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of d-limonene extracted from different citrus fruits on the disintegration of Polystyrene foam, widely known as S…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to observe the amount of carbon dioxide vapor released through sublimation by submersing dry ice in diverse liquids. Methods/Materials After…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Analyze the corrosive behavior between metal fully submerged in liquid versus metal partially submerged and determine whether corrosion reacts similarly when using three typ…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test the effect of temperature on the rate of a chemical reaction. I thought that reaction rates would increase with increasing temperat…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an extension of a previous experiment on electrolysis that had unexpected results. No oxygen gas was produced and a red substance dissolved into the water…
Chemistry
Third Award
Objectives/Goals To 1) provide computational (theoretical) data on 7 non-classical fullerene derivatives (all of which have no previously published characteristic values), 2) compare the cal…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To determine if the addition of common chemicals to interior and exterior house paint improves the fire resistance of the paint. Methods/Materials Methods: Purchased necessa…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to investigate the property of surface tension of liquids and to determine how it is affected by rising temperatures and detergent additives…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This experiment will document the way in which the starting temperature affects an exothermic reaction. The reaction to be tested is an instantaneous reaction between Calciu…
Chemistry
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find which voltage would provide Impressed Current Cathodic Protection. Methods/Materials I designed and conducted a 134 sample corro…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I was determined to find out how much aluminum in cookware was absorbed into our acidic foods, which in turn, we ingest and may cause harm to our bodies. My hypothesis is th…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Acid is a highly corrosive substance that is in all batteries, many chemicals, and industrial wastes. Surprisingly, it is also on many people's teeth! According to the Merec…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to find out whether copper or chlorine causes blonde hair to turn green in pool water. Methods/Materials I made nine solutions with three d…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to determine how biodiesel is made and produce a sample quantity of biodiesel from two different vegetable oils. I will then determine if the…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if salt, sugar, pepper and baking soda have an effect on the boiling point temperature of water. Methods/Materials The experiment was performed…