Welcome to the third Steemit Digest issue: Your daily dose of steemians'-shared knowledge.
Steemit Digest is a reference work for finding daily interesting topics as seen only here in Steemit as it's created to brag the gem of our authors in different topics, whether it's undervalued or trending. This blog promote good contents in the platform.
Here are the entries for today's issue:
Author's Entry
Fact about crabs
Did you know that seafood wastes like of crab's can produce chitin. This is a material that can be used by pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, textiles, water treatment, even household cleansers and soaps and etc.
Chitin (KI-tin)
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Chitin is the horny substance found in the shells of crabs, outer coverings of insects, and hard parts of similar creatures and some plants. Pure chitin is a white powder which is very difficult to dissolve.
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Chitin is a long chain of modified sugar molecules. The basic glucose molecule (sugar) has two new organic groups. These place one hydroxyl (OH) group in glucose. One is an Amino group (NH2). Amino groups occur in all proteins. The other is an acetyl group (COCH3). It is derived from acetic acid, commonly called vinegar.
There are a number of chemically treated chitin products now being used in many industries. Recently the drug, cosmetic and textile industries have been using modified chitin products as thickeners and protective coatings.
A general formula for chitin is C30H50N4O19, for which the molecular weight is 770.73.
Seafood waste has a purpose.
Technology
Transportation
https://steemit.com/technology/@doitvoluntarily/battery-powered-flying-water-taxi-being-tested-in-france
Travel
Portugal
https://steemit.com/travel/@travelgirl/traveling-the-world-43-europe-series-alfama-lisbon-portugal-2-43-steemfest
Life
Pets
Attention cat lovers, be happy that this lovely stray cat found her loving home. @marxrab shares us about this great story.
https://steemit.com/life/@marxrab/the-little-one-who-wanted-a-home-and-someone-to-love
Belogic clock
Did you know that a human's urinary bladder, blood cells, toxins, and others have different behaviors to our body in different times on the clock? @sdd explains us clear what i'm talking about.
https://steemit.com/health/@sdd/belogic-clock-for-human-body
Education and Parenting
Matter
This post by our Steemit teacher @anneke may look like a refresher to science, but did we miss an attendance to school? Check it out!
https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@anneke/matter-and-the-phase-of-matter-science-gr-4
Parenting
Steemit parents must take time to read this good point of @affiedalfayed about teaching English to our kids at a very young age.
https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@affiedalfayed/5-reasons-why-you-should-teach-english-to-your-children-at-early-ages-2017827t17057981z
@alishi gives the Steemit parents a good read about how should we teach our children in brushing their teeth.
https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@alishi/is-it-a-pain-or-a-pleasure-your-child-needs-to-learn-to-brush-their-teeth-properly
Art
@nicolemoker's #drawingchallenge entry teaches us drawing with the use of watercolor. Check her cool stuff here:
https://steemit.com/drawingchallenge/@nicolemoker/drawing-challenge-3-learn-to-draw-with-nicole-10-fruits-in-watercolours-10
Discovery
Animals
Do you think of an emoji in @soldier's photo? well it's also a bird! Check out his cool series of posts featuring the most unique animals in this planet.
https://steemit.com/life/@soldier/the-most-unique-animals-of-planet-earth-or-part-ii
Health
Superfood
@amy-goodrich shares to us a little bit of a secret to her sexy body. Also made in the kitchen.
https://steemit.com/food/@amy-goodrich/post-workout-salad-cherry-tomato-chickpea-avocado-salad-with-homemade-italian-dressing
And that's it for today's Steemit Digest Issue. Stay tuned for more of awesome contents coming from myself and my followers. Thank you for reading!
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