Chemistry Engineer
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Chemistry Engineer (Chemist)
Chemical engineers work in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, design and construction, pulp and paper, petrochemicals, food processing, specialty chemicals, microelectronics, electronic and advanced materials, polymers, business services, biotechnology, and environmental health and safety industries, among others.
Publication of the Periodic Table
Periodic Table is the tabular display of chemical elements. Any student of chemistry begins his journey with this Periodic Table and hence the publication of the same is of utmost importance when one talks about the chronicles of Chemistry. Dmitri Mendeleev is credited with the first widely recognized periodic table which he made public in the year 1869. Mendeleev’s periodic table has over the years been developed and refined with the new inventions in chemistry.
Discovery of Radioactivity
Radioactivity was first discovered in 1896 by the French scientist Henri Becquerel, while he was working on phosphorescent materials. It was initially thought to be similar to X-Rays but further investigation by chemists and scientists like Becquerel, Ernest Rutherford, Paul Villard, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, proved that this form of radioactivity was significantly more complicated. Madam Curie first isolated Uranium from its ore which eventually led to the discovery of polonium and radium.
Discovery of Oxygen
‘Fire Gas’ or Oxygen was first discovered by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1772 but no documentation was published regarding the same till 1777. It was a British clergyman Joseph Priestley who is thus given priority in the discovery as his findings were made known first in 1775. The discovery of Oxygen hence is of prime importance in the timeline of Chemistry. This eventually led to Lavoisier conclusively proving that Oxygen was a chemical element.
Working Conditions?
Most chemists operate in two worlds of work. One is the macroscopic world that you see, feel, and touch. Chemists also operate in the microscopic world that you can’t directly see, feel, or touch.
The macroscopic world involves lab coats — weighing out things like sodium chloride to create things like hydrogen gas. This is the world of experiments.
In the microscopic world, chemists work with theories and models. They may measure the volume and pressure of a gas in the macroscopic world, but they have to mentally translate the measurements into how close the gas particles are in the microscopic world.
Major Job Responsibilities
Some of the major job responsibilities are to ~
- Work together
- To remember the periodic table
- To be patient
- To work in a lab
What kind of education do you need to work as a chemist?
Chemical engineers usually take a class for science and technology.
Do I think I would like this job?
You don't know how much I've loved science and mixing chemicals as a kid! I love to make things explode, fizz, or just make a pretty mix of colors! I can also be just plain creative and make things. Such as new technology, a cure for cancer, faster working medicine, and things as such. I think I would have a ton of fun working as a chemical engineer.
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