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The chemistry class that I'm in is a preparation for general chemistry class. It's a class that's for students who have never taken chemistry before, and even though I have the pre-requisites for the general chemistry class (which doesn't even give science students transfer credits to UBC), it's been 4.5 years since I took a chemistry class at Langara, and I didn't do so well as I was too busy working, and exhausted all the time. So I decided to take this more basic class, so that I could get a good foundation in chemistry once and for all. After what happened with my math class, I think it was a wise choice
This class is so basic, that last week, my teacher asked us to learn the names of the first 20 elements on the periodic table! And yesterday, as part of our homework, she asked us to learn the names up to Krypton. Now, I admit that these are a little trickier than the first 20, and I was unsure about two of them, Scandium and Vanadium.
I decided to test myself and see how many I knew, so without looking up the names, and only looking at the periodic table that only had the elements' symbols, I wrote all the names down from Scandium to Krypton, and I got them all correct! I know, this isn't the hardest thing to accomplish and is no indication of intelligence, but I was quite pleased that without studying, I knew all the names.
Something that I have always been fascinated with is the periodic table, specifically, the names of all the elements. I not only like to know the names, but the origin of the names. Aside from science, I love languages, and always want to know why things are called what they are. Yesterday, as I was studying math, I was wondering where the names sine and cosine came from.
This class is so basic, that last week, my teacher asked us to learn the names of the first 20 elements on the periodic table! And yesterday, as part of our homework, she asked us to learn the names up to Krypton. Now, I admit that these are a little trickier than the first 20, and I was unsure about two of them, Scandium and Vanadium.
I decided to test myself and see how many I knew, so without looking up the names, and only looking at the periodic table that only had the elements' symbols, I wrote all the names down from Scandium to Krypton, and I got them all correct! I know, this isn't the hardest thing to accomplish and is no indication of intelligence, but I was quite pleased that without studying, I knew all the names.
Something that I have always been fascinated with is the periodic table, specifically, the names of all the elements. I not only like to know the names, but the origin of the names. Aside from science, I love languages, and always want to know why things are called what they are. Yesterday, as I was studying math, I was wondering where the names sine and cosine came from.