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CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz Name ______Nimrah Ifteqar_____________________________________________________ By opening this document, you agree to complete this work independently and without the use of external resources including sites like Chegg or Course Hero, and you will not consult with any other people except me (you can ask me questions about the quiz prior to submitting your work). This quiz is cumulative over module 2. However, since the course is cumulative, concepts from module 1 may also be involved, but the focus of the questions will be on content in module 2. You will receive feedback following the first submission of the quiz (due Tuesday, March 8. You will then make any modifications you feel are necessary based on the feedback, along with your explanation of the error made and what you needed to do to correct the mistake and resubmit the quiz (by Wednesday, March 16). Points are assigned following the final submission. Please submit your answers as a pdf with your name on the document and in the file name. Use the link for this assignment in the week 7 assignment folder. You can write answers to the questions that involve calculations or chemical symbols by hand. You must show your work for the quantitative problems to receive credit. You can take a picture or scan your answers. If you have the ability to write directly on the pdf version of this quiz, please do not cram your answers into the tiny spaces on this document. 1. Read the Radiation: The Good, the Bad, and its Place in our Modern World,” by Julianna Poole, ChemMatters. December 2021, and answer the following questions. a. Who are the “Radium Girls” and how did their experiences lead to the passage of labor laws to protect workers from unsafe labor practices? The “Radium Girls” were the female workers along with Maggia who were poisoned from painting watches with self-luminous paint. b. What type of reaction does the equation given at the top of page 9 represent? Is it balanced? Explain. It is an alpha decay reaction and it is balanced because the isotopes of radium is 226 and the number of isotopes in radon is 222 + the alpha isotope which would make it 226, similar goes for the number of protons in radium which is 88, and the number of protons of radon is 86 and would eventually be 88 after adding the alpha protons to it. c. On page 9 the article states Rn-222 decays to Po-218. Write the equation for this reaction. 222 86 Rn 218 84 Po + 4 2 He d. Do the colors on the electromagnetic spectrum on page 11 make sense? Why or why not. Yes, it makes sense because it displays clearly about the rays and the wavelength for each of the rays. e. What radioactive isotope is present in smoke detectors? Should you be concerned about having smoke detectors in your living space? Explain. 1
CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz Americium-241 is present in smoke detectors. No, it is a must to have a smoke detector in your house, so it would aware you if you have any fire around. This would be important to those especially with big houses and kitchens. It can save lives and reduce deaths. f. Write the balanced equations for each of the two radioactive isotopes currently used in glow in the dark watches (page 11). 3 H 147 59 Pr + 0 -1 e 2. When a radioactive isotope decays and the resulting isotope is also radioactive, it will also decay, and this series will continue until a stable isotope is produced. U-238 undergoes a multistep decay series and one of the isotopes in this series is Rn-222. Rn-222 is radioactive. It has a half-life of 3.8 days. Radon (Rn) is a gas that has a boiling point of -62 o C and it is more dense than air. a. If 40 pCi of Rn was in a sealed room, what would the activity be after 38 days? 3.82 b. Use the information provided above about Rn to explain the infographic, namely why Rn emanates from the ground, why concentrations can build up in basements, and why it is the main cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers . Radon can pass from the soil to the air in a gaseous form and enter your home. Because your basement is below ground, it's the first room that radon gas will reach as it rises from the soil to the air. The concentration of radon gas in your basement will likely be higher than in any other room of your house. c. If a home is tested and found to contain high concentrations of Rn, the EPA recommends installing a vent that will release the Rn above the roof. Why do you think Rn should be vented above the roof rather than discharging the Rn out of the home at ground level ? In a house with forced heating and air cooling, radon gas can be easily distributed on all houses. When radon gas is discharged through the radon-lowering system above the roof, radon concentrations fall significantly to the distance from the discharge point. 2
CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz 3. This question involves data collection and your response will include a description of what you did and an argument that explains how can you protect yourself from UV light. You received UV beads in lab on Thursday to use to carry out this investigation. Background Information Ultra-violet radiation comes from the sun, and it is energetic enough to break chemical bonds and cause undesirable reactions including those in your DNA, that can result in skin cancers. Depletion of ozone in the stratosphere which protects us from overexposure to UV radiation, has allowed an increase in UV radiation reaching the surface of the earth. In this investigation, you will be exploring how well different materials block UV radiation. There are three types of UV radiation, UVA, UVB, and UVC. 3
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CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz Figure 1: Diagram to show the approximate amount of radiation the earth receives from the sun (Ciasto, Laura, Ultraviolet (UV) radiation: Don’t feel the burn, avoid it! ClimateWatch Magazine, 7/24/2020, https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/ultraviolet-uv-radiation-don’t-feel-burn-avoid-it Consider what you’ve learned in module 2 about the relationship between wavelength and energy. UV-C is not shown here because it doesn’t pass through the ozone layer. It has wavelengths between 100-280 nm. Which type of UV radiation is the most energetic? Why? Question to investigate How can you protect yourself from exposure to UV light (besides staying inside and completely away from any UV radiation)? You will answer this question in your argument after you’ve performed the investigation, but it is included here to help you guide your process in creating a procedure. Procedure Items needed: You have at least 6-8 small beads (they should all be the same color when you put them in the sunlight) that change colors upon exposure to UV radiation. You can check the color of the beads by putting them in the sun for a few minutes. The beads are quite sensitive so should be kept completely out of the sunlight until you are ready to begin the test. Please record all your data in your notebook. You will need to record what you see, and what you do. Please take pictures or a video of the beads to show the colors and include those as well (either as part of your video or as part of this quiz document you will submit through Blackboard. 1. Choose at least three ways to block the beads from exposure to UV light that you might use to protect yourself when you are outside. a. Use sunscreen as one of the materials to block the beads from UV light. 4
CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz b. If you have more than one type of sunscreen with different SPF values, you can use these as separate variables. The sun protection factor (SPF) of a sunscreen is a measure of how much solar energy is required to burn the skin with the sunscreen on relative to the energy needed to burn unprotected skin. It is not a measure of how much longer you can stay in the sun with the sunscreen on than without it. Many factors, including time of day, skin type, amount of sunscreen and how frequently it is reapplied, influence the amount of solar energy to which someone is exposed. For more information on sunscreens visit the FDA website. 2. Decide what you will measure to be able to compare how effective the different materials are at blocking UV light. 3. Determine the control you will use to compare your samples against for this investigation. This helps you answer the question, how do you know that the beads changed colors? a. Independent variable– what variable will you manipulate? b. Dependent variable – what variable depends on the independent variable (so what will change as a result of manipulating the independent variable?) c. Controlled variables – What do you not want to change for all set ups (temperature, amount, etc.)? 4. Conduct tests outside. 5. Repeat if needed if you find that your first experiment doesn’t go as you’d like or if you want to determine the reproducibility of your study. The beads will work again if you take them out of sunlight for a while and use them again. Your will submit your response to this question in the form of a Flipgrid video . Click here to get to the prompt in Flipgrid. The only thing you need to submit in written format with this quiz are your lab notes (observations and basic description of what you did). Your argument and answers to additional questions included here can be completed in the video. *A note about Flipgrid, you do not need to show your face in the video. If you prefer to make a video of your results and speak over it, that is absolutely fine. Make sure to include in your video the following: 1. Procedure – Describe what you did in sufficient detail so someone can recreate your experimental design including identifying the variables in your experiment. 2. Results: Show beads or pictures of beads in video, also include the weather (cloud cover, temperature, precipitation), and where you performed the experiment (outside) 5
CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz 3. Argument: Use the CER format to answer the question: How can you protect yourself from exposure to UV light? You may use the this video as a resource for the reasoning component of your argument. 4. Reflection: 2-EHMC and TDSA are two molecules that absorb UV light over a range of wavelengths. In figure 2, the variable on the y-axis, absorbance, is a measure of the amount of UV light absorbed by the molecule. Higher absorbance indicates the molecule absorbs more light. a) What is a broad-spectrum sunscreen? Do any of your sunscreens say this? Broad-spectrum sunscreen helps to protect against both UVA and UVB radiation as they reach our skin from the sun through the earth’s atmosphere. UVA is primarily for tanning and is also used in tanning machines but UVB can go deep into the skin and result into sunburns. Yes, I do have a sunscreen from the brand Olay, that has broad spectrum SPF 15. b) Explain why a broad-spectrum sunscreen would contain both molecules: 2-EHMC and TDSA. 2-EHMC is a UVB blocker used in the sunscreen and TDSA is used to protect the skin from tanning and sunburns. Broad spectrum contains both these molecules as it protects the skin to the fullest and saves it from strong rays of the sun that can cause skin cancer as well. c) Does the absorbance spectrum in Figure 2 support the results you obtained from your experiment for the sunscreen used as one of your variables? Explain. d) If you had used zinc oxide in your experiment with the beads, how to you think its results would compare to the sunscreen you used (and if you did not use sunscreen, compare to the results of what you did use). 6
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CHM 110 Spring 2022 Module 2 Quiz Figure 2 Absorbance of UV by compounds typically found in sunscreens (https://drdembny.com/critical- wavelength-and-broad-spectrum-uv-protection/ 4. Prepare a concept map using the following concepts as well as five (5) additional concepts you select yourself. Include arrows connecting the concepts to show the direction of the link. Write a linking phrase on each arrow so that concept – linking phrase – concept reads like a sentence. For example, if you added isotopes to your map, you could link isotopes to radioactive with the arrow pointing from isotopes to radioactive with the phrase “with unstable nuclei are” so it reads, isotopes “with unstable nuclei are” radioactive .” You can make the concepts singular or plural as you need for the linking phrases to make the most sense. Electron(s) Electron configurations Fission Atomic radius Isotopes Nuclear reaction(s) Orbitals Periodic table Radiation Radioactive 5. How do you rank your work on this quiz at this point: Exemplary, Proficient, Needs Work, Unsatisfactory? Explain. 7