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Carbon

Widely distributed in nature. Its free states appears in various forms like coke, lamblack, or charcoal

Amorphous


Crystalline

Two allotropic form of carbon

Amorphous

Randomly arranged; no definite structure (e.g. coal, charcoal, and anthracite)

Crystalline

Definite structure (e.g. diamond and graphite)

Activate charcoal

Used to treat emergency poisoning prior to emesis. Its finely powdered form is used as an absorbent in the treatment of diarrhea.

Activated charcoal


Tannic acid


Magnesium oxide

3 Components of universal antidote

Carbon monoxide

210x greater affinity to hemoglobin than oxygen leading to asphyxa then death

100% O2


Artificial air (80 He and 20 oxygen)


Hyperbaric oxygen

Treatment of carbon monoxide

Carbon dioxide

Aka Carbonic acid gas.


Use: potent and effective respiratory stimulant used in the treatment of CO poisoning

Dry ice (Solid CO2)

A refrigerant; hard in the treatment of acne, angiomas, corn and calluses

Gray metallic cylinder

Color of the container of Carbon dioxide

KHCO3

used as a source of electrolytes

Bismuth subcarbonate

Astringent and protective

(NH4)2CO3

reflex stimulant and expectorant

Silicon

Is the second most abundant element in earth

Siliceous earth

Also known as the diamaceous earth, infusal earth, Fuller's earth, Kieselghur or Celite


Is an excellent inert, non absorbent filter aid --used as non adsorbent filtering aid and mild abrasive

Amorphous silica

Used as gas absorbent dessicants, carriers, fillers and abrasives

Silicosis (Si toxicity)

A lung condition resembling chronic tuberculosis, developing after long exposure (7 years or more) to respirable dust of silicon (silica particles 5 micrometer or less)

Aluminum oxide (Alumina)


Breathung aluminum dust or aluminum oxide dust regular intervals prevents development of silicosis

Treatment of silicosis

Metasilicic acid


Orthosilicic acid


Disilicic acid

Silicon form silicic acids

Silicates

A compound of Si and anion


Insoluble in water or acids except for alkali salts


Can be attacked by HF to form the gaseous SiF4


Silicon dioxide

Aka purified siliceous earth or silica


Use: absorbent

Talc (2MgO . 4SiO . H2O)

Aka: hydrated Mg silicate, french chalk


Softest mineral known


Uses: dusting powder as a protective and lubricant and as a filtering aid (due to inertness)


Must not be used in broken skin or surgical incisions - impairs wound healing

Kaolin

Aka: China clay, native hydrated aluminum silicate


Uses: clarifying agent, intestinal absorbent and protective, dusting powders

Bentonite

Aka: soap clay, mineral soap, native colloidal hydrated aluminum silicate


Uses: suspending agent, emulsifier for oil, a base for plasters and ointments

Attapulgite

Aka: polymagma, quintess


Use: aborbent for diarrhea (as adsorptive in anti diarrheal products)

Simethicone

Polymeric dimethyl siloxane


Use: anti flatulent in gastric bloating and in postoperative gaseous distention in the GI tract

Pumice

Porous rock of volcanic origin


Use: dental abrasive

Glass

Made from a vitreous silicate material prepared by fusing a base with pure silica then by cooling to produce a vitreous mass.


Has the tendency to affect the integrity of the product


MnO2

Hides the blue green color pf ion present in silica

Borates

Reduces coefficient of expansion. It also makes the glass alkali and heat resistant

K

Gives a brown and a light resistant glass

Pb

Increases the refractive index of the glass

Germanium

Aka: Eka silicon


Used in the manufacture of electronic conductors

Tin (Sn)

Aka: Stannum


Used in the preparation of tin cans

Cry of tin

Peculiar sound of bent Sb

Stannous fluoride

Aka: fluoristan


Only on Sn compund used pharmaceutical


Used as an dental prophylactic


Anticariogenic at 8% concentration

Stannic oxide

Aka: Cassiterite


Have a germicidal effect particularly against Staphylococcus infections

Lead

Aka: Plambum, Plambum nigrum.


Most mettalic element of the group.


Highly toxic used in nature as a cumulative poison, is readily absorbed in the intestinal tract and broken skin, deposited in the bone

Plubism

Lead poisoning

EDTA, Ca versenate

Lead poisoning antidote

Plumbous acetate

Aka: sugar of lead


Uses: astringent

Plumbic acetate

Aka: goulard's extract


Use: astringent and antiseptic

Plumbous oxide

Litharge-natural mineral form of PbO

Group IVB ELEMENTS (Titanium Family)

These are transition elements

Trivalent titanium

Is the most important in Group 4B

Titanium

Aka: Titans, Soms of Eearth


Use: powerful reducing agent

Titanium oxide


Titanium trioxide


Titanium dioxide (aka rutile)

Three oxide forms of Titanium

Titanium dioxide

Has a high refractive index


Uses: Opacifying agent in pharmaceutic


Used in production of white capsules


UV ray protectant- it reflects UV rays to prevent sunburn

Nitrogen

Aka: mephitic air, azote


Mkst abudant gas in air and is combined in nitrates and organic compounds

Elemental nitrogen

Employed pharmaceutically as an inert atnosphere in ampules

Liquid nitrogen

Used as an refrigerant

Black

Container of nitrogen

Nitrous oxide

Aka: Laughing gas


Used: as a general inhalatory anesthetic

Blue

Container of nitrous oxide

Diffusional hypoxia


Megablastic anemia

Side effects of laughing gas

Nitrites

Vasodilator, and treatment for cyanide poisoning

Nitrates

As a meat preservative (but carcinogenic)

Sodiym nitrate

Antidote for cyanide poisoning and as a vasodilator

Nitric acid

Aka: aqua fortis


It produces a yellow stain on animal tossues (xanthoproteic test)

Phosphorus

Aka: light carrier and St. Elimo's fire

White phosphorus

Poisonous and flammable (distinctive, disagreeable, ozone like odor)

Red phosphorus

Non poisonous and non flammable

Cupric sulfate

Antidote for white phosphorus

Scarlet phosphorus

Produced by heating PBr3 with Hg at 240 degree celcius

Violet phosphorus

Heating white P with Na to 200 degree celcius

Metallic or black phosphorus

Heating P with Pb at 530 degrees celcius

Tribasic phosphates

Are used as gastric antacids

Monobasic alkali phosphate

Is used in an urinary acidifier and dibasic sodium phosphates is used in saline cathartics and in enemas

Phosphates

Are used as buffer, cathartics and atacids


Principle anion in tge intracellular fluid

Hypophosphorus acid, NF

Used as an antioxidant primarily with iodine and ferrous salts

Arsenic

Aka: lewisite metal


Component of Salvarson


Very poisonous

Iron (III) and magnesium hydroxide

Antidote for arsenic

Arsenic trioxide

Aka: arsenolite


Uses:


1mg/ml - treat acute promyelocytic leukemia


Used as an insecticide

Electrocardiographic abnormalities

Sode effects of arsenic trioxide

Salvarson/Arsphenamine/Compound 606 and Neoselvarsan 914

Are early arsemic compounds in the treatment of syphilis

Antimony

Aka: stibium


Potentially toxic


Use:


Expectorant


Emetic


Enti-helminthic

Antimony potassium tartrate

Aka: tartar emetic, brown mixture


Formerly used as an emetic and expectorant

Antimony potassium tartrate

Used in the treatment of schistosomiasis (liver fluke), a type of helminthic infestation that is endemic in eastern Philippines

Bismuth

Aka: Beautiful meadow

Bismuth

Use:


Astringent


Antiseptic


Internal protective for ulcer

Bismuth subgallate, subcarbonate and subnitrate

Used as an astringent, mild germicide, antacid and protective (due to its adherent properties)

Colloidal bismuth subcitrate

Prescribed clinically in the treatment of peptic ulcer

Milk of bismuth

Aka: bismuth cream


A mixture of Bi subnitrate and Bi hydroxide


Use:


Antacid


Internal protective esp for gastric ulcer patients


Inhibits the growth of H.pylori

Niobium

Aka columbium

Tantalum

Is used in sheet form for use in surgical repair of bones, nerve and tissues