Paula Garcia Todd
11/11/2025
Carriers In Chemistry
The preceding the presentation, the speaker's education and rewards for her work in chemistry was addressed including the Women in STEM reward. At the beginning of the presentation, we were called to decern what carriers and types of carriers that involve chemistry such as Chemical Engineering, Pharmacist, and Forensics Chemical Analysist and agriculture, research, health, manufacturing, business consulting, and teaching respectably. The divisions of chemistry carriers were understood in 4 different sections being: use chemistry to analyze materials, understand interactions between chemicals among each other and therefore influence on larger components such as humans, development of new materials, and developing new applications for chemistry.
Thereafter, she specified operations in carriers leaning more towards her current occupation relating to chemistry through initially decerning the difference between a chemist and a chemical engineer being someone who produces small amounts of a chemical (bench scale) for intentions such as research and forensic analysis and someone who produces/uses chemicals on a larger scale such as manufacturing for uses such as agriculture. She then gave detail concerning the difference between how capsules and tablets are made as to pills the first being made through a process performed by a machine and the second being manually constructed by a pharmacist. The process by which capsules are made includes for different steps being blending (when all active ingredients and some inactive ingredients are mixed in), granulation which hardens the ingredients to make them less sticky, tableting in which a machine rotates ingredients allowing them to eventually reach a location where they are pressed down to form tablets, and coating during which the tablets are rotated and coated by other inactive ingredients as part of the capsule. These contain Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients includes contents for intended effect while Inactive ingredients (Excipients) are the other materials put in so that the right ingredients gat to the right place at the right concentration. Inactive ingredients can be used as fillers, lubricants, taste maskers, binders for particle size, and rate modifying polymers. Some examples include polymethacrylates and lactose. Paula Todd’s current business, Panasonic, produces Inactive Ingredients that assure Active Ingredients are released into the correct organs as well as rate modifying polymers. At the end of the presentation, we pored alginate into a solution containing calcium chloride to create a material used as the coating for capsules. It was then addressed that alginates are used to prevent heartburn through its formation of a raft in the stomach that prevents stomach acid from entering the esophagus.
11/11/2025
Carriers In Chemistry
The preceding the presentation, the speaker's education and rewards for her work in chemistry was addressed including the Women in STEM reward. At the beginning of the presentation, we were called to decern what carriers and types of carriers that involve chemistry such as Chemical Engineering, Pharmacist, and Forensics Chemical Analysist and agriculture, research, health, manufacturing, business consulting, and teaching respectably. The divisions of chemistry carriers were understood in 4 different sections being: use chemistry to analyze materials, understand interactions between chemicals among each other and therefore influence on larger components such as humans, development of new materials, and developing new applications for chemistry.
Thereafter, she specified operations in carriers leaning more towards her current occupation relating to chemistry through initially decerning the difference between a chemist and a chemical engineer being someone who produces small amounts of a chemical (bench scale) for intentions such as research and forensic analysis and someone who produces/uses chemicals on a larger scale such as manufacturing for uses such as agriculture. She then gave detail concerning the difference between how capsules and tablets are made as to pills the first being made through a process performed by a machine and the second being manually constructed by a pharmacist. The process by which capsules are made includes for different steps being blending (when all active ingredients and some inactive ingredients are mixed in), granulation which hardens the ingredients to make them less sticky, tableting in which a machine rotates ingredients allowing them to eventually reach a location where they are pressed down to form tablets, and coating during which the tablets are rotated and coated by other inactive ingredients as part of the capsule. These contain Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients includes contents for intended effect while Inactive ingredients (Excipients) are the other materials put in so that the right ingredients gat to the right place at the right concentration. Inactive ingredients can be used as fillers, lubricants, taste maskers, binders for particle size, and rate modifying polymers. Some examples include polymethacrylates and lactose. Paula Todd’s current business, Panasonic, produces Inactive Ingredients that assure Active Ingredients are released into the correct organs as well as rate modifying polymers. At the end of the presentation, we pored alginate into a solution containing calcium chloride to create a material used as the coating for capsules. It was then addressed that alginates are used to prevent heartburn through its formation of a raft in the stomach that prevents stomach acid from entering the esophagus.