Hello, my name is Rainy Willis. Today I hit that point in my school that I knew was coming but I was hoping to put off. The periodic table of elements is something that has always intimidated me with all of the specific colours and numbers and letters just look like a very confusing lesson. Anyhow today I was re-reading through all of the periodic elements and recapping what they all are. So today I am going to be figuring out which elements are in or helping with my main environmental issue.
The periodic table is going to help me be able to more accurately identify different objects or things such as air's different components that I wouldn't have looked at this closely before. So far I have been able to break down quite a few different things in the eco-system that I have been studying and it has been quite successful. The first thing that automatically came to mind was that hydrogen was basically water and I also remembered what I read about how hydrogen makes up 90% of the atoms in the universe. So automatically hydrogen was on the list. Next was Oxygen, then Aluminum, next Silicon, then Calcium, after Calcium, Tin/Stantum.
Now comes the real question why did I pick these elements? Well, each of these elements plays a key role in the oceans polluted eco-system. Number one let's talk about hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas it is responsible for 90% of all atoms in the universe, hydrogen is also one of the two key components for H2O more commonly known as water. Next is Oxygen; Oxygen just like Hydrogen is the second huge part of water, also the air is made up of 21% Oxygen, oxygen also is also a large factor in organic molecules, blood, minerals, and oxides. Next is Aluminum; aluminum is a lightweight non-corroding metal most often found in common metal, cans, foil, granite, and clay. All of these things so far mentioned are in the ocean or are the ocean. Next is Silicon; silicon is a hard metalloid commonly found in quartz, granite, sand, soil, clay, glass, algae, and silicone rubber most of the things that contain silicon are apart of the oceans natural state but glass and rubber are not supposed to be in the ocean and yet they are. Then there is Magnesium; magnesium is also a lightweight metal, magnesium is in chlorophyll in green plants which are plentiful in the ocean, is also in talc, basalt, cars, planes, bikes, and flares. Just like with silicon magnesium is responsible for a few natural things that should be found in the ocean but there are way too many things that shouldn't be in the ocean such as car and plane parts, bikes, and countless flares. And last but not least Calcium; calcium is the cornerstone for many sub-sections of the ocean. Calcium is in bones, teeth, milk, leaves, vegetables, shells, coral, limestone, chalk, plaster, mortar, and cement. While shells and coral may seem like a let down when I said the base of the ocean coral reefs all around the world are there because of calcium and shells all along the bottom of the ocean floor or even shells still on animals are made up of calcium.
So many of these elements have helped to create amazing things that are now supporting the ocean's eco-system or rather trying to support it. There are now so many things being made and created that we can't even control the excess garbage so we put it in the only place that it seems is left...the ocean. The ocean should not be a pit for garbage just because you can't see what lives there. It is not a bottomless pit of nothingness just because it looks like that doesn't mean it's true, we need to be more aware of what is going into the ocean. Be aware take action and press forward.
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