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Aspirin

Aspirin is a widely used drug that functions as a carboxylic acid, ester, and aromatic compound, and it is used to reduce cardiovascular diseases by stopping the body's production of an enzyme that causes inflammation and blood clots. It has physical properties of being a colorless or white crystalline powder or granules with a slight acid taste that melts at 135 degrees Celsius and dissolves easily in the body. Aspirin is commonly used to reduce fever and inflammation in various forms like tablets or powders.

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Aspirin

Aspirin is a widely used drug that functions as a carboxylic acid, ester, and aromatic compound, and it is used to reduce cardiovascular diseases by stopping the body's production of an enzyme that causes inflammation and blood clots. It has physical properties of being a colorless or white crystalline powder or granules with a slight acid taste that melts at 135 degrees Celsius and dissolves easily in the body. Aspirin is commonly used to reduce fever and inflammation in various forms like tablets or powders.

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ASPIRIN By: June Kanjanachusak 1108 5861036

Functional Group

CARBOXYLIC ACID

ESTER

AROMATIC

Purpose
Physical Property
Molecular Weight: 180.159 g/mol
Color: Colorless/ white
Aspirin has been widely used around the world since the past. In Melting Point: 135 degree Celsius
medical treatment, its used for reduce cardiovascular disease such as Texture: white crystals or white
blood clot or stroke or even heart attack, and also used for fever-
crystalline powder or granules
reliever, anti-inflammatory medications. Aspirin can dissolve easily by
Taste: slight acid taste
pass through digest or using outside of body. It will do inside the body
and stop the process of making an enzyme that cause inflammation
called Cyclooxygenase Moreover, this enzyme also motivate the body
Chemical Property
to making the substance called thromboxane-A2 which will cause
Traditional Name: Aspirin
blood clots. As the result, aspirin can work in many ways and many
purposes, but the different is the amount of aspirin that will be taken. Compound Name: acylsalicylic
acids

Application
Chemical formula: C9-H8-O4
Solubility
- 1 gram of aspirin solute in:
300 mL at 25 degree Celsius

100 mL at 37 degree Celsius
Aspilets 5 mL alcohol at 5 degree Celsius
17 mL chloroform
10 15 mL ether

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