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My Favorite CHEMICAL OXYGEN

ELEMENTS NITROGEN
Yna Sophia E. Villareal CARBON

Symbols O N C

Number
Oxygen - 8
Nitrogen - 7
Carbon - 6

FAST FACTS

O N C

·Discovered by Joseph Priestly in

1774
·Oxygen is used by animals and plants
in the respiration (breathing) process.
Tanks of oxygen are used in medicine to
treat people with breathing problems.
They are also used as life support for
astronauts and scuba divers.
·Discovered by Daniel Rutherford in
1772.
·The chemical industry uses this gas in the
production of fertilizers, nylon, nitric acid,
dyes, medicines, and explosives.
Here are the five applications of
nitrogen in everyday life.
·Discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in 1789
Carbon in its diamond form is used in
jewelry. ...
Amorphous carbon is used to make inks
and paints. ...
Graphite is used as the lead in your
pencils. ...
One of the most important uses is
carbon dating.

Where are they Its Importance to the

commonly found? Society
Oxygen: Oxygen occurs mainly as an element in the Oxygen is equally important for
atmosphere. It makes up 20.948 percent of the
life, both plants and animals
atmosphere. It also occurs in oceans, lakes, rivers, and
ice caps in the form of water. Nearly 89 percent of the need to breathe. Carbon is
weight of water is oxygen. Nitrogen; Even though there used to construct the vast
is so much nitrogen in the air, there is very little in the
Earth's crust. It can be found in some fairly rare minerals majority, if not all, organic
such as saltpeter. Nitrogen can also be found in all living molecules and compounds,
organisms on Earth including plants and animals.
Carbon: carbon is found in all living things. It is also also plats use it in
found in fossilized remains in the form of hydrocarbons photosynthesis. Nitrogen is
(natural gas, crude oil, oil shales, coal etc) and
carbonates (chalk, limestone, dolomite etc).
also very widely used in the
construction of organic
molecules.