Read the information about the halogen family. Elements within a group share similar properties. Elements in the halogen family, such as fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I), all have seven valence electrons. Iodine is an important element for human health. The thyroid gland uses iodine to produce hormones. One of the hormones it makes is a covalent compound called thyroxine.

Given this information, what effect do you think other halogen elements have on human health? State your prediction, and do some research on one of the halogen elements to see how it affects human health. List your findings, and then give your opinion on whether you think the element you chose should be used in food products, cleaning products, or in other manners that cause it to come in contact with humans. Be sure to provide evidence from your research to support your opinion.

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).

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