Chapter 15 Bonus

This picture of honeycomb relates to chapter 15 because in the chapter it said that the structure of ice was in a hexagonal honeycomb formation.

Copper

Copper 

One of the oldest superheroes on the planet, Copper Man has been helping people for around a thousand years. Known for his bright red metallic skin tone, a result of  Copper Man in ancient times only knew two of his powers, that he was incredibly flexible, and could create currency for countries. He used his powers to help many different peoples throughout history, including the Native Americans and the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Copper Man helped early civilizations in starting the Bronze Age. Copper Man has also been around for longer than any other superhero, with the exception of Gold and Iron Man, and was helping early mankind as early as 9000 B.C.

 Around modern times, Copper Man discovered that he could do much more than he had previously thought. He discovered that with his body's new found ability to conduct heat and electricity, that he could now electrocute and burn his enemies. Only Silver Man can conduct electricity better than Copper Man. He can combine with his sidekick the Tin Man to form a much stronger superhero. During Copper Man's time off from fighting crime, he helps people to make electrical wires in their homes. Copper Man also works making pennies for the U.S mint.  Even though Copper Man has a lot of useful super powers to fight off his enemies, no superhero is without a weakness. Copper Man has to make sure that he does not stay out in the elements for too long or he will oxidize and change color, allowing his enemies to defeat him.

http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/29/copper

http://www.webelements.com/copper/

History of the Periodic Table

At the age of twelve John Dalton was already teaching other students in a school that he himself had set up. Dalton was fascinated with the weather and kept a daily meteorological journal. He was a creature of habit and a quiet person, with virtually no social life. Dalton had the theory that everything was made up of "ultimate particles" called atoms and his own atomic theory. He proposed that there were just as many atoms as there were elements, and that atoms had a atomic weight, and that different atoms have different weights. Dalton and made a huge theoretical leap with hi ideas, but was largely dismissed by the scientific community. Berzalius, a Swedish chemist, believed in Daltons theory and built on it. Berzalius discovered the elements silicon, thorium, selenium, and cerium. Berzelius also studied over two thousand chemical compounds and in 1828, created a table of the atomic weights of all the elements known during his time. Dobereiner found that elements were grouped into "triads" such as lithium, sodium and potassium. Dobereiner realized that that elements that reacted in similar ways must be grouped in a family. Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian scientist who's mother had recognized when he was young that he was very intelligent, so she moved them to St. Petersburg so that he could get a good education. Ten months after they had moved to St. Petersburg, Mendeleev's mother died.  His mother's death is partly what drove Mendeleev to work so hard at his research. Mendeleev spent three sleepless days and nights alone trying to organize the periodic table. When he finally fell asleep, the organized periodic table came to him during a dream. The Italian chemist Cannizaro discovered that equal volumes of gasses contain equal volumes of molecules. Cannizaro also set an agreed upon standard measurement of atomic weights. Newlands thought of elements being on a musical scale, came up with the "Law of Octaves" but this was dismissed by the scientific community during his time.

Option 3
Today's environment is filled with distractions. You can get distracted by the tv, your phone, laptop and a ton of other things. Todays distraction filled environment impacts my ability to achieve at a high level because with all of the distractions, its much harder to actually focus on what your working on and actually achieve something. Having all these distractions around you all the time also doesn't give you any chance to think about deep problems. If someone today wanted to stay awake for three days and nights thinking about one thing and how to solve it, it would be almost impossible for them because there are so many distractions and so much stuff to keep us entertained.