Household Chemical Research

Choose a category of household chemicals from the following list:

• air freshener
• carpet shampoo
• dishwasher detergent
• furniture polish
• drain cleaner
• oven cleaner 
• mold & mildew cleaner
• toilet bowl cleaner
• pesticide
• flea powder
• car wash & polish
• cosmetics

Research the category that you have chosen - complete the following questions:

1.  What are some examples of products within your category?  Find and post names and pictures.
2.  What are the main "active" ingredients in the product?
3.  What are the possible health dangers (to people/animals) of this product?
4.  What are the environmental problems associated with this product?
5.  Are there any special precautions/instructions for using this product?
6.  How are you supposed to dispose of this type of product?
7.  Are there other non-toxic or environmentally safe alternatives to this type of product?

 

Household Safety Symbols

Here are some safety symbols that I found on products around my house.  For each picture, describe what the safety symbol stands for (two words) and then guess which product it belongs to from the list below.

WD-40
Hairspray (X2)
Spray Sunscreen (X2)
Bug Repellent
Tire Cleaner (X2)
Carpet Cleaner
Disinfectant Spray

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PART 2:

How are you supposed to dispose of aerosol cans (such as hairspray, spray on sunscreen) in Surrey?
How are bleach and other cleaning products disposed of properly?
Why would you not be able to put these items in the regular garbage?

Welcome to Science & Technology 11

Welcome to Science & Tech 11!

Please check my blog often for updates and assignments - I am hoping that we can post most of our work to our blogs, creating a portfolio of our learning as the semester continues.

To start - please post your first assignment from earlier this semester - our SAFETY MEMES that you created with a partner.  You should have 5 different memes that depict 5 different safety rules being followed/broken...

2nd post - your Chemical Safety research questions (if you wrote it on paper, please hand in to me!)

3rd post will be observations in the form of pictures of our ACID / BASE lab.  We have completed three parts to this lab - please describe what is occurring in the pictures that you post.  This is done easily from the Blogger app on an ipod or phone.