WEEK 2: PERIODIC TABLE AND ATOMIC STRUCTURES

MY ELEMENT OF THE WEEK

I was interested in researching Calcium because the strength and health of our bones depend on its presence, and a chiropractic x-ray showed me my bones are thinning. This is of particular concern at this time because there is a radioactive isotope called Strontium-90- which was released from the Fukushima nuclear melt-down whose pollution has crossed into Northern California- whose intrusive malignancy will actually replace Calcium in the bones due to the similarity of Calcium and Strontium’s chemical family. Strontium 90 then bombards the nearby tissues and organs with beta rays.

When nations test atomic bombs, strontium-90 gets into the atmosphere and begins to float around the earth. Gradually it falls to the ground. Since cows eat the grass from the fields, the strontium-90 gets into milk and other dairy products. It’s pretty much a lousy time to be a dairy or meat consumer, but that beef sure tastes good doesn’t it?

Calcium has an atomic number 20, an atomic mass of 40.078 amu, and is abbreviated by the letters Ca. Calcium is a soft gray alkaline earth metal that is soft for a metal (though harder than lead, can be cut strenuously with a knife). In mass terms, it is the fifth-most-abundant element in the Earth's crust. Calcium is also the fifth-most-abundant dissolved ion in seawater by both molarity and mass, after sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate. Calcium is essential for living organisms, particularly in cell physiology, where movement of the calcium ion Ca2+ into and out of the cytoplasm functions as a signal for many cellular processes. Calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals and is a substantial material used in mineralization of bones and shells. By mass, Calcium is also the fifth-most-abundant element in the human body, where it is a common cellular ionic messenger and a structural component of bone. Out of the human body's solid particles after cremation, about a third of the total "mineral" mass remaining is the approximately one kilogram of calcium that makes up the average skeleton (the remainder being mostly phosphorus and oxygen).

OZONE FINDINGS

Most people think of danger when they think of ozone because of the attention in recent years to the hole in the ozone layer, which lets in harmful UV rays from the sun. The hole in the upper atmospheric ozone layer over Australia sky-rocketed Aussie cases of skin cancer, with the harmful UV rays strongest from 10am-3pm. The Australian Cancer counsel encourages Aussie beach goers to wear shirts, hat, sunglasses, and regularly apply sunscreen.

While upper atmospheric ozone keeps harmful UV rays from reaching the Earth’s surface, lower atmospheric ozone is an air pollutant that harms the respiratory systems of animals and burns sensitive plants. Ozone layer concentrations have substantially risen as a result of pollution from the Industrial Revolution, which is a particular concern because

upper tropospheric ozone acts as a greenhouse gas, absorbing some of the infrared energy emitted by the earth and heating up the planet.

Ozone also has many beneficial applications, with less attention given to ozone generators and ozone therapy for medical use. Ozone generators attack odors at their source, removing odors and sanitizing the entire treatment area. Ozone therapy has been used by many medical professionals and people privy to its many healing applications. Though this is not the thing I take joy in revealing, for personal testimonial sake, I personally had 100% success treating cervical HPV from the use of an ozone machine. Nine out of ten diseases, including the common cold and the flu, are caused by water or airborne bacteria and viruses. Ozone kills microorganisms. The sterilization action of ozone is by "direct kill attack" and oxidation of the biological material. The rate of bacteria killed by Ozone is 3500 times faster than with chlorine. Virus destruction with ozone is instantaneous, safe and foolproof, as ozone is nature's own purifier.

Ozone Therapy has proven beneficial effects such as:

* increasing oxygen delivery to cells, tissues, and organs

* increasing blood circulation throughout the body

* detoxification

* boosting the immune system

*sterilizing and healing external wounds (many of which would otherwise not ever heal)

* gangrene

* Cancer

* Lyme Disease

* AIDS

* Diabetes

* Stroke

* Depression

* Chronic Fatigue

* Lupus

* Fibromyalgia

http://www.oxygenhealingtherapies.com/What_is_Ozone.html

WEBSITE REVIEW: www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/atoms/elements.html

Because chemistry can be such a dry subject that’s hard to visualize without pictures when talking about positions, shapes or orbitals, electrons etc., it was nice that this website included animations which looked like electronic billiard balls akin to a video game animation of molecules and atoms that float by the viewing lense of the cyber Petri dish. The website made it very easy to distinguish between what comprises an element, a molecule compound and a mixture with color-coded graphic representations that instantly showed you in a concrete what you were dealing with so that you don’t have to just “imagine” what the components of a mixture, compound, etc. are. Now if they can just figure out a way to turn Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle into a computer program to figure out either where those particles are on the screen or where they’re going next (but not both of course), the revolution in science cyber geekdom will have reached ultimate pinnacle post Nintendo heights of epic cyborg proportion.