Activity 1 1-13-11 Surface Chemical Make-up

What is the chemicals and their structures that make up cardboard?

• Cardboard is made out of processed wood, which is made from plant cells. Trees take carbon dioxide and water to grow. About 33% of all plant matter is cellulose. It is the most common organic compound on Earth. Cellulose consists of D-glucose units which condense through glycosidic bonds.

What is the chemicals and their structures that make up Styrofoam?

• The chemical makeup of polystyrene is a long chain hydrocarbon with every other carbon connected to a phenyl group. Polystyrene's chemical formula is (C₈H₈)_n.

What is the chemicals and their structures that make up wax?

• CnH2n+2
• hydrocarbons

Explain why water is attracted to cardboard and not Styrofoam?

• the electronegativity with water and Styrofoam do not attract as well as water molecules and cardboard.