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Wednesday July 12, 2006
Sports drinks and chemistry
Quite a few of you said that your interests included some kind of sports - from basketball to ballroom dancing to cheerleading to snowboarding. So I will start my own sports and chemistry section of this blog. One of my goals of this class is to have you all love chemistry! Well if you don't love it after you come out of this, at least you can appreciate chemistry and all that chemistry does for you on a daily basis.
Remember how we said that the density of water is 1g/mL. What does this really mean?
This means that when you sweat while exercising every kilogram that you lose of weight is really about 1L of water that you have lost while sweating!
Here is a website that describes what an electrolyte is. Actually an electrolyte is just a fancy word for what we have been studying in class - ions! Cations and Anions are both kinds of electrolytes. Electrolytes is just the word for ions that are in use in your body.
Here is a website that shows the difference between what you drink while you exercise.
Here is a really cool website about the creator of Gatorade and the chemistry which they used to help develop Gatorade with. (Some of this chemistry might be a little advanced for you - but it is still cool to look at.)
If you have any questions - you can always make a comment to this blog.
Posted at 01:09PM Jul 12, 2006 by CHRISTIAN, CAROLINE in Chemistry and sports | Comments[19]
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