Hero or Villain? What is Oxygen?

Hero or Villain?

Use for My Element

My element is use to give life and to help people grow and live.Oxygen is inside your lungs and you breath out carbon dioxide. Oxygen helps your brain work and think. For example when your in the car and you are about to fall asleep but you don't want to, you can stick your head out the window (safely) and try to open your eye and the fresh Oxygen, air outside makes you wake up because your brain is getting more Oxygen and Oxygen relieves tiredness waking you up.

Intro to Oxygen

Oxygen is a nonmetallic element that is in group 16.The symbol for Oxygen is O it represent oxygen on the periodic table. Oxygen has an atomic number of 8 and mass number of 16.There are 6 valence electrons, there are 8 protons and 8 Neutrons also 8 Electrons.

Positive and Negative Effects about My Element

Student Information

It positive because it help humans and animals and even plants breath and stay alive, not enough oxygen in the body can cause death. Oxygen has more positives because it helps tiredness, relief headaches and also boost the immune system.

It is also negative because it can effect the balance of the offset in the ozone layer leaving us no protection against the sun. It also, pure oxygen is generally bad, and sometimes toxic

Sophia Lucas

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Science

11/3/16

The History of Oxygen

The history of this element is it was discovered by Carl scheele but a chemist published his ideas when the chemist discovered the same thing so Laurent Lavoisier the chemist was the one who got all the credit because Carl scheele did not publish his ideas first. Carl discovered it by obtaining it by heating up potassium nitrate,mercuric oxide, and other substances and mixing them together. Laurent Lavoisier just combined different substances according to the name "Acid Former," and discovered it then.

Physical properties of the element

Oxygen is a gas that is odorless, colorless,

(except the liquid form is pale blue), the melting point is -218 and the boiling point is -183.The density of Oxygen is 1.141g/cm it has a mass of 16 and a atomic number of 8.

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Is My Element Hero or Villain?

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My element is a hero because it enables life and villains don’t enable life they destroy it. It also makes different elements that help you inside. Oxygen helps your headaches , helps you wake up, and also helps your immune system grow.That's why my element is s hero not a villain.

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