Works of A Chemist

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A chemist is a
scientist trained in
the science of
chemistry.
Chemistry is the study of matter and its interactions
with other matter and energy.
Synthetic chemist pours a chemical
from a round-bottom flask.
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What Is the Importance of Chemistry?
Chemistry has a reputation for being a complicated and
boring science, but that reputation is undeserved.
Fireworks and explosions
are based on chemistry, so
it's definitely not a boring
science.
Bright Flashes of Chemistry
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Math and logic is applied in chemistry, which can make
studying chemistry a challenge.
understand the basics of
how things work... that's
the study of chemistry.
In a nutshell, the importance
of chemistry is that it explains
the world around you.
Dangerous reactions
What are the works
of a Chemist?
A Chemists work can be challenging and exciting.
Chemists play a key
role in the devt of
drugs, to cure and
alleviate diseases and
prolong our life spans.
Pharmaceutical Chemist working
in the laboratory
Most chemists work in laboratories equipped with state-of-
the-art instruments.
Chemists may specialize in
different sub-fields.
Organic Chemistry Lab
Food Chemist -
studies the chemistry of foods, their
deterioration, and the principles underlying
the improvement of foods for consumption
What do chemists working in different
specialties do?
They are concerned with how these food products are
processed, prepared, and distributed.
Cooking is chemistry, "It's essentially
chemical reactions."

A food chemist explains how
food changes in cooking, how it
rots, how to preserve food, how
the body uses the food eaten,
and how ingredients interact to
make food.

Cheese forms when
milk protein casein
curdles because of
action by lactic acid
bacteria or the
enzyme rennin
Cooking is all about chemistry and knowing some
facts can help chefs understand why recipes go
wrong.
Food preservation
Fermentation has always been an important part of
our lives: foods can be spoiled or made by
microbial fermentations.
"Golden raisins" are just
raisins that are treated with
sulfur to give them their pale
color.
Most brands of
dehydrated and frozen
potatoes use sulfur to
keep them from
browning.
Fermenters used for the
production of glutamic
acid for MSG.
Food additives
(monosodium glutamate,
citric acid, yeast)
For what is MSG
used?
Physical and Chemical Reactions
during Deep-Fat Frying
Chemists studies the
Link Between Cooking
and Carcinogens
French fries and
potato chips may be
doing more than just
clogging our arteries
and padding our guts.
Acrylamide levels in foods suggests the suspected carcinogen forms in
dangerous levels during the cooking of potatoes.
What Do Forensic Chemists Do?
Forensic chemists examine
evidence from crime scenes in
an effort to solve crimes.
This scientist is removing a
piece of blood-stained
material gathered at a crime
scene for DNA testing.
Blood or urine for traces of
drugs, and still another might
use chemical reactions in test
tubes to identify larger
samples of compounds.
A chemist uses liquid
chromatography to analyze a
complex mixture of
substances.
Chromatography determines the
level of pollutants in air, analyzing
drugs, and testing blood and urine
samples.
Atomic absorption
spectrophotometry ,useful tool in
the analysis of metals such as
bullet fragments.


Environmental
Chemists

Chemistry is at the heart of environmental issues.
What makes one chemical a nutrient
and another chemical a pollutant?
Environmental chemist
sampling water.
-studies the sources, reactions, transport, effects
and fates of chemical species in water, air, and
soil environments
THE CHEMISTRY OF WATER
POLLUTION

The pollution of rivers and streams
with chemical contaminants has
become one of the critical
environmental problems.
A chemist finds solution to clean up the environment.
A chemist addresses the question
What processes can produce the
things needed without harming
the environment?
WASTE MINIMIZATION

Reuse of reagents and/or solvents reduces waste. For
more efficient reactions, waste can be minimized by
the recycling of reaction solvents and by choosing
alternative reagents, which avoid the necessity of costly
disposal of toxic residues
Spilled oil CO
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2
Organic pollutants CO
2
(1) isolate microbes that can DEGRADE or eat a
particular pollutant.

Environmental biochemist
Bioremediation

(2) to provide the conditions to eliminate or reduce
the concentration of the pollutant.

ex. Probiotics or bioremediation products (bacterial
preparations)
*now widely used in Aquaculture, Sewage
treatment and water recycling.

Soil Chemist -
Chemical Analysis and Mineralogy
studies chemical and mineralogical compounds
and reactions occurring in soils and soil-forming
processes
Pharmacological
Chemist -
MDMA was first prepared in 1912 by Merck
chemist Anton Kllisch. Merck was interested
in developing substances that stopped
abnormal bleeding.
They also study the effects of drugs, gases, dusts, designs,
produces and delivers drugs.
Herbal medicine
Studies disease therapy to create chemical
solutions to relieve, combat and cure
illness.
Production of
pharmaceuticals (insulin and
other human proteins)
Production of commercial
enzymes (cellulase, amylase)
A challenge facing chemists everywhere is how to prepare
new drugs, materials, dyestuffs etc. in ways that are more
energy efficient and non-polluting.
Treatment, cure and prevention
Disease
Ex. A. biotransformation
When an organic compound is
modified by simple chemically
defined reactions, catalyzed by
enzymes, into a product that is
recoverable, it is called
biotransformation
Ex. B. Vaccines &
Immune-enhancers
Quality Control Chemist - responsible for developing
and validating test methods.
When worst quality of life
loss control
Nuclear chemist - a highly
skilled scientist who deals
with radioactive nuclear
processes and properties to
assist engineers and physicists
in their research.
Nuclear chemists work on-
site at nuclear reactors to
monitor radiation levels and
diagnose malfunctions to
prevent a disaster from
occur.
This guy is taking no chances. He
is wearing full protective gear
while micropipetting.
Nuclear chemists confer with
scientists and engineers to
conduct analyses.

Textile Chemist - applies the principles of the of chemistry to
the understanding of textile materials and to their functional
and aesthetic modification into useful and desirable items
Textile samples
Microbial Materials
Infusing bacteria or viruses into clothing materials may give
them super properties, such as self-cleaning clothes or
naturally glow-in-the-dark designs.
Biochemist -
identify biological problems then develop and
apply appropriate techniques to solve them at
the molecular level
Over time, Plastics and chemicals will be
made from plants rather than petroleum.
using multiple renewable
oil feedstocks including
palm, mustard, soybean,
jatropha and waste oil.
Chemist prepares 100 %
soybean oil inks for
laboratory printing tests
Organic
Chemist -
study the chemistry of the carbon compounds that
make up all living things.
Oceanographic/marine
Chemist -
-studies the organic and inorganic
compounds dissolved in water to find
out whether they interact, precipitate to
the bottom or are used by ocean life.
A marine chemist studied the
production of dimethylsulfide (DMS)
by phytoplankton in the in Antarctica.
Her research aims to reveal the gas's
important impacts on the
environment and Earth's climate.
chemist examines an oil-smudged following a
spill off the coast of Massachusetts. (Tom
Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution)
Agricultural Chemist - focuses on chemical compositions and
changes involved in the production, protection, and use of
crops and livestock
This scientist is performing a
sample extraction
new technique to detect animal
products in feed helps formulators
identify feed containing only
vegetable ingredients.
CHEMISTS IN
AQUACULTURE
Bacterial analysis of
water and soil
PCR (DNA) analysis of shrimps
Analysis of micro-elements in water and soil
Analytical Chemist - obtains, processes and communicates
information about the composition and structure of matter
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Inorganic Chemist - studies elements and their compounds,
minus most carbon compounds.
chemist prepares a fuel cell sample
Cobalt complexes
Polymer Chemist - works to join a chain of small molecules
in a repeating fashion to form a single layer molecule.

Polymers designed by chemists
make packaging for foods on the
supermarket shelves

foam and polymer production
Research Chemist - studies the behaviour of chemicals,
particularly in industrial processes
The Modern Product Development Chemist - A Master
of Many Trades
The piece of paper you are
reading, the detergent you use
to wash your clothes, the polish
you use to shine your shoes, and
many other common items are
the result of a product
development chemist's work.
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The Modern Product Development Chemist
They solve problems for their company or for customers by
developing chemicals or mixtures of chemicals that function as
desired in a given end use.
coatings
electronics
food
detergents
paper
agricultural chemicals
pharmaceuticals
(drugs)
petroleum
Product development specialists don't just work in chemical
manufacturing: they also work in or develop products for the
following industries:

Requirements for Chemists:
Future chemists should like
working with their hands, building
scientific apparatus, and
performing laboratory
experiments.
They should also like computer
modeling.
Requirements for Chemists:
The following traits are also
necessary:

Perseverance

Curiosity
ability to concentrate on detail
The ability to work
independently
Cosmetic chemists work with the
exterior of the body developing
lotions, makeup, shampoos and
other consumer products.

john the cosmetic chemist
Cosmetic chemists or scientists can be found in cosmetic
development, formulation, product & ingredient testing,
quality control, analytical chemistry, process engineering,
and working as synthesis chemists.

chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled
by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure
among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and
poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so
sweetly, that I'd die before I'd change places with the
Persian King.
Johann Joachim Becher
Chemistry Professors
Chemical-related
accidents and
emergencies
Mutagenic
Carcinogenic
CSA-B Chem 3 students during the
laboratory component of Industrial
Microbiology subject
CSA-B Chem 4 students during their on-the-
job training at Negros Prawn Producers Mktg.
Coop., Environmental Laboratory
Worlds Famous Chemists
Chemistry was their life
Mendeleyev's Dream:
The Quest for the Elements
James B. Conant :
Harvard to Hiroshima
and the making of the
nuclear age
The discoverer of oxygen
Joseph Priestley
Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister (1979-
1980), Chemist (Scientist) &
Lawyer.
A fascinating course connecting
everyday and molecular world. It
encompasses career paths in research,
forensics, chemical & related
industries, product formulation &
devt, pharmaceuticals, consultancy &
entrepreneurship.
Chemists can work in laboratories,
government regulatory agencies,
pharmaceutical & cosmetic companies,
petroleum companies, Industrial R&D,
Industrial Sales & Techl Service,
environmental research & assessment
firms, universities, etc.
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