I have to a write a speech as a lawyer attempting to win a case against some pollutant that is harmful to people/evnironment. I need some ideas on what toxic chemical (or possibly some sort of radiation) to research. I would perfer one that not too well known, but any ideas are very much appreciated. (Please don't think I'm being lazy by not coming up with one. I just thought someone might have an awesome idea.)
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Any of the heavy metals, or benzene products would be excellent topics. If you attempt to present a case on a chemical that's too obscure you'll have a difficult time finding enough research/clinical trials to support your claim. Peruse the EPA website to get some other ideas.
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BETTER LIVING through CHEMICALS----at least that's what one of those companies said along time ago!!!!!!!!  Especially if you freak!!!!!!  And if you REALLY FREAK------Nut- case, knew a few of them too!!!!!
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If I were to make any revisions to this.. this is what I would do. \n\nI think scientists should study natural substances. We need to invest both time and money in creating better uses for our natural resources, such as better heating and cooling solutions. These solutions can offer the same, if not better results than are already available. For example; the use of corn and soybeans as a gasoline preservative shows promise for reducing fossil fuels, which will make the country safer and cleaner. \nThere is a huge environmental impact on natural things, since synthetic products take more time to decompose. These products are not only polluting our Earth, but also killing animals at the same time. Animals that are scavengers that hunt for food don’t know not to eat these things, in result they may end up dying from eating some of these plastic objects. \nI really believe that the time and money that would be spent on this research, would be very beneficial to us all. Our world would be a cleaner, safer, and much healthier place to live in. Who doesn’t want that? Now all we’ve got to do is make this happen.\n\n\nI hope that helps, good luck.
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This is my answer to a similar question elsewhere on this site.  It's mostly appropriate here.\n\n500 years ago, Paracelsus, an early chemist, doctor and alchemist (which, at the time, was still a going concern) wrote (in German):\n\n"Alle Ding' sind Gift und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, das ein Ding kein Gift ist."\n\nThis means:\n"All things are poison and nothing (is) without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison." \n\nWhatever science may think of some of his stranger pursuits, the wisdom of this statement is undisputable. Every substance will kill you if you ingest enough of it, even water. (And, no, I'm not talking about drowning.)\n\nAny substance that can damage a DNA molecule can be a carcinogen. This includes nearly every molecule, again, including water. The only completely non-carcinogenic substances I can think of would be the noble gasses (helium, neon, etc.) They are chemically inert and do not readily react with much of anything. Even that's not completely safe because radon is a radioactive noble gas (so easily a carcinogen) and some of the others probably have radioactive isotopes.\n\nIt's worth noting that despite the earlier "answer", natural things are full of carcinogens. Plants are filled with pesticides of their own creation. Why not? Plants don't like being eaten any more than you would. Natural pesticides are simply the result of their evolution. These pesticides are designed to, yes, KILL animals. That includes you. Of course, we don't eat the ones that have enough of those chemicals to kill us in the short term, and only a few of our foods (such as, I'm told, Okra, which supposedly has the highest levels of natural pesticides of any food regularly eaten by humans) have enough pesticides to be really worth avoiding. Nonetheless, the chemicals aren't intended to be good for you and some of them do indeed contribute to cancer.\n\nFunny irony: Plants grown "naturally" or "organically" have more natural pesticides than those grown by supposedly bad, unnatural modern techniques. "Organically" grown plants are exposed to more insects, and the plants respond by pumping up excess carcinogens and other poisons into their tissues. Plants protected by artificial, external pesticides have less trouble with pests, so don't produce as many poisons. Guess what, you cannot wash off internal, natural pesticides like you can the artificial ones humans add.\n\nAgain, the dosage of these natural pesticides is still usually too small for concern. Still, if you want my advice, avoid overpriced "organic" foods.\n\nRemember the Alar scare from quite a few years back? Everyone worried about the Alar on apples being carcinogenic. Everyone ignoring the plain fact that the supposedly dangerous aspect of Alar was that it broke down into unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH). UDMH is found in much higher doses in supermarket mushrooms than found on treated apples. The treated apples were banned, the mushrooms remain on the shelves to this day, protected by the strange and irrational sense of safety the phrase "all natural" gives to people.\n\nMind you, I'm not saying the mushrooms are dangerous. They aren't. Neither were the treated apples. The dose makes the poison and neither has enough to worry about. The news media likes scare stories, so it prints them without much regard for the facts of the issues.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Pollution/\nhttp://www.webdirectory.com/Pollution/\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/pollution\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
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You might want to actually consider taking a CHEMISTRY class before you talk like that.  There will never be an Elixir of life, people will continue to die, the best we can do is expand lifespan by treating disease and illness.
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If you're looking for a more intellectual topic than constructive, try laughter.  Research what causes it, what chemicals are involved, its physical and emotional effects, and other things.  Here are a couple of links to laughter-related topics.  I hope that this helps!  This is what I'm doing for my biology project, so you asked this question at the right time!
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You are having a lot of issues with run on sentences, passive voice, incorrect apposition, incorrect verb tense and punctuation. You also tend to use words that are redundant to describe things. I've taken an initial pass for you. It very definitely needs further scrubbing, but here's an initial pass.\n\nHerbicide contains two specific ingredients: glyphosate or 2,4D. (WHERE ARE THE TWO?? - you need to specify them with AND)\n\nThese chemicals are commonly used in farms, parks and golf courses.  Farmers and gardeners use the chemicals to kill unwanted plants, but they don’t realize that the chemicals do not stay on the plants. The herbicides are getting into our water, rivers and, subsequently, into the rain. It could kill fish, beavers, frogs and birds. \n\nI found that some researches have proven that weed killer is toxic to the environment. John Struger, a scientist at the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters, analyzed urban streams and detected nine types of herbicides. Tyrone Hayes, the developmental endocrinologist at the University of California at Berkeley, said that over-use of herbicide is directly effecting male tadpoles in the laboratory.  He tested the level used in the environment, and found that this chemical removed the testicles of a male tadpoles, and prevented male characteristics from fully forming. He concluded that herbicide exposure turns the tadpoles into hermaphrodites (creatures with both male and female sexual characteristics). If there are no more male frogs, frog populations will decrease, and, without the frogs to consume them, bug populations will increase.
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If you know the compounds you tested you could always try a MSDS (Material saftey data sheet). This will tell you the lethal dose of the chemicals but you must be more specific than oil and grease. There are many different forms of petroleum and hydrocarbons.
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So you need chlorobutane to run a column?\n\nWhat about something similar, in terms of polarity, like chloropropane or chloropentane?\n\nI was going to run a column once based on results from TLC using a pentane/acetone mixture. The lab ran out of pentane and the stock room was closed. My undergraduate research advisor suggested hexane instead. We tried it, it worked, and I was able to get the separation.
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Google that and you will find as I did that there is a wealth of information on external environment analysis within health care!!!\n\nGood Luck!!!
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go to this website...................... \n\nhttp://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Local/SA_Splash.html\n\nSigma-Aldrich has a very large variety of chemicals in small or large amounts.
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http://www.burtonreport.com/InfForensic/HumanExperPlutonium.htm\n\n\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet10/brief10/tab_i/br10i2j.txt
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Here's a way to turn a common household chemical reaction into some fun.\n\nhttp://www.torgo.org/bpsubs/
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Be careful.\n\nThat environment can be dangerous.
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An easy one for the music topic would be to do it about how classical music affects the growth of plants or if it doesnt. For the dog topics it could be to reasearch about whether its true that their mouth is cleaner than the human mouth ( dont know why you would want to do that....but...anyways) . Another topic  saw once in a science fair was something with the simple atom. For the Atom one you can make an atom display and can explain about it and its importance and make a a poster about it too. Hope this gives you some ideas !! (seems easy ...na ? )
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I'm not sure which of the 3 words you're looking for, but they are:\n1. Topic\n2. Toxic\n3. Tonic