Strickler,+Ryan

I read the article about lead poisoning. Some forms of lead taste sweet which is why kids like to eat it. Lead paint was used but it was banded in 1978. Older houses still have led paint which flakes off and some kids will try to eat it. Some candies are also really high in lead. In mexico some candies use chili powder. The chilis aren't cleaned at all. The farmers put them in burlap sacs and put rocks and iron scraps in them to increase their weight so they get more money. The pots they store the candy in also have lead which gets into the candy. After reading this if I ever go to Mexico I'm never going to get any candy.

Ryan, I agree with you on the not eating candy thing. MW

I didn’t know so many things came from crude oil. I thought how they did the fractional distillation was kind of cool. I didn’t know crude oil had hydrocarbons and the bigger the hydrocarbons the higher the boiling point. This relates to chemistry because they are using the distillation to change matter from a liquid to gas to separate it.

Ryan, Post is generally good but too short. 60 words. 4 stars. MW

Ryan, Are you planning on doing any of this? MW

Ryan, Please make an effort! MW