Did you ever think about cooking as chemistry? Would knowing a little chemistry

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Did you ever think about cooking as chemistry? Would knowing a little chemistry make cooking easier? Would it make it more fun? What would your "perfect" cookie look like? (discuss specific temperatures, length of time and or ingredients and how they would form your cookie)

What other chemical reactions can you think of that you see in your everyday lives? Make sure you describe the type of reaction and, if you can, write it out and make sure its balanced.

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Yes , Chemists can be the best cook as they are expert in the lab preparations .

To prepare a good cookie we need to know it's optimum preparation conditions (temperature maintain, pressure require, amount of contents, time of readtion ) and Chemists are expert in these .

The cookie is prepared at a optimum temperature and the perfect cookie ?? has brown colour after baking .

Chemical reactions occuring in everyday lives ;

1. Combustion of fuel ;

C3H8(propane ) + 5O2 = 3CO2 + 4H2O + Heat .

2 . Rusting of Iron ;

Fe + O2 + H2O = Fe2O3.xH2O .

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