Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy

Answer to this question depends entirely on what beeswax is chemically composed of and how it is related to the triglyceride (TAG) which is an ingredient in making biodiesel. After reading this, you will understand the possibilities of beeswax as raw material in biodiesel production. The world at large is at war with the climate change many people are coming up with various ways to protect our surrounding. The main contributor of climate change is the use of petroleum products and it is necessary for chemists or scientists to look for other alternative cheaper clean green energy.  What is beeswax?  It is a wax secreted by bees to make honeycombs and usually used to make wood polishes and candles. It is made of a fatty acid esterified to alcohol (fatty acid and alcohol are linked through ester bond). The fatty acid is palmitic acid (a sixteen carbon atoms acid) while the alcohol is triacontanol (30 carbon atoms).  What is biodiesel? Biodiesel is monoalkyl esters of fatty

Answer to this question depends entirely on what beeswax is chemically composed of and how it is related to the triglyceride (TAG) is an ingredient in making biodiesel. After reading this, you will understand the possibilities of beeswax as raw material in biodiesel production. The world at large is in war with the climate change many people are coming up with various ways to protect our surrounding. The main contributor of climate change is the use of petroleum products and it is necessary for chemists or scientists to look for other alternative cheaper clean green energy.  What is beeswax?  It is a wax secreted by bees to make honeycombs and usually used to make wood polishes and candles. It is made of a fatty acid esterified to alcohol (fatty acid and alcohol are linked through ester bond). The fatty acid is palmitic acid (a sixteen carbon atoms acid) while the alcohol is triacontanol (30 carbon atoms).  What is biodiesel? Biodiesel is monoalkyl esters of fatty acids

Antibiotics function according to their structures. β-lactam analogues (penicillin) function by exerting their effects by disrupting the creation of peptidoglycan (core stress bearing network in bacterial cell wall). The destruction occurs either by blocking the construction of sub-units of peptidoglycan or by barring their association in existing network.  As can be seen in the reaction, four-membrane β-lactam makes amide susceptible to nucleophile acyl substitution. The action of antibiotics occurs due to their abilities to acylate the amino group (-NH 2 ) of enzyme that is responsible for synthesis of bacterial cell wall. The question always arises, if penicillin has effect on mammalian cells? The answer is no, since mammalian cells are not enclosed by cell walls. In this process, penicillin changes active enzyme into inactive enzyme as indicated above thus inhibiting its dangerous action on cells.  How does resistance to penicillin occur? In some situations resi

When the word debt is mentioned, majority of us only think of bad debt. Debt can be either bad or good. What is a good or bad debt? Bad debt takes money from your pocket while good debt puts money in your pocket or a debt that someone pays for you. For instance, a loan on a rental property in which ten ants are the ones responsible for covering your expenses and mortgages.  Some e xamples of b ad debts on the other hand are  car loan and mortgage payment for your home .   Debt has the power to make you financially free or poor depending on your reactions towards it. What principles one can follow to shift bad to good debts and to investment. In Life, discipline play a key role in everything we do. If you are not disciplined then your life will be lying in the edge of a sharp sword. To be financially free, you need to practice some disciplines to get out of the rat race. Young generations today will heavily invest in bad debt like buying expensive cars, taking loan to