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Papers on Science and Nature
Fossil Fuel Consumption, CO2 And Its Impact On Global Climate
Number of words: 1552 | Number of pages: 6.... sources will be needed to sustain economic
growth. The quantity of ultimately recoverable fossil fuels is limited by
geology and remains a matter of suspicion, but the view of the 1970s that
scarcity was imminent is still popular. It is the 1973 Oil Crisis marked the
transition from abundant, low-cost energy to an era of increasing prices and
scarcity. Today concerns over scarcity have been overtaken by the question of
whether human beings can afford to meet the environmental costs of continued
fossil fuel consumption. One of the most widespread concern related to global
climatic changes.
Introduction: Climate represents normal w .....
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Benzene
Number of words: 500 | Number of pages: 2.... because the C(6)H(6) formula indicateda high degree of unsaturation, but does not display the reactivity characteristic of
such compounds.
In 1865, German chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz proposed thatbenzene is structurally a planar hexagon in which the six carbon atoms are joined byalternating single and double bonds. Because this simplistic structure could not accountfor all of the unique properties of benzene and its derivatives, German chemist JohannesThiele suggested in 1899 that the bonds between carbon atoms exhibit resonance. That is,each bond oscillates between being a double and a single bond (see .....
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Chromium
Number of words: 483 | Number of pages: 2.... They are also used for ball bearings and the hard
cutting edges of high-speed machine tools.
Nickel is highly resistant to electric current and is often added to
chromium steels to make them easier to work. For example, stainless steel
sinks can be pressed out from flat sheets of steel that can contain 18 percent
chomium and 8 percent nickel.
When nickel is mixed with chromium, the resulting metal can stand
very high temperatures without corroding. For example, the heating elements of
toasters can be made from an alloy that is 80 percent nickel and 20 percent
chromium. This metal operates at a temperature .....
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Roswell Incident
Number of words: 5103 | Number of pages: 19.... land where one could see miles around. On this afternoon something very
strange was about to happen. In the clear skies of Roswell a very large craft
ended its flight. Was this a weather balloon or an Unidentified Flying Object?
There were many eye-witness reports of alien creatures lying next to
their destroyed crafts. One or two may have survived for a few days. The
military quickly cornered off this area, removing the particles and the bodies.
A local funeral director got a call for numerous child size coffins. He was to
deliver them to the rear of the military base. Major Marcel was an officer on
the scene who took p .....
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Copper Report
Number of words: 297 | Number of pages: 2.... 35 neutrons. It's atomic weight is 65.39. Copper is an orangy, red metal that is found in ores as a solid form. It can be found in such countries as the United States, Chile, Zambia, Zaire, Peru, and Canada. The most important copper ores are the sulfides, oxides, and carbonates. From these copper is obtained by smelting, leaching, and electrolysis. It's alloys, brass and bronze, long used, are still very important; all American coins are now copper alloys; gun metals also contain copper. The most important compounds are the oxide and the sulfate, blue vitrol; copper compounds such as Fehling's solution are widely used in .....
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Adaptation Syndrome
Number of words: 326 | Number of pages: 2.... room where the temperature was near freezing,(Author pg#) “…during the first 48 hours they developed the typical manifestations of the alarm reaction. This was proved by killing ten animals at the end of the second day; all of them had large fat-free adrenals, small thymuses, and stomach ulcers.” (Seyle, 1956; 88). This experiment conducted illustrated the vast number of physical changes the body undergoes in stressful situations.
The Resistance Stage
The alarm reaction stage cannot be maintained indefinitely, and longer exposure to stressors cause people to progress to the resistance stage. The stage i .....
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The Ozone Layer
Number of words: 1504 | Number of pages: 6.... changes. For this reason many scientist have expressed concerns over
the global increase of carbon dioxide in resent decades, largely as a result of
the burring of fossil fuels. In many other factors of the earth’s present
climate remain more or less constant, the carbon dioxide increase should raise
the average temperature at the earth’s surface. Because warm air can contain
warm water before reaching saturation than cooler air can, the amount of water
would probably increase as the atmosphere got warmer . This process could go on
forever. Although this considered unlikely many negative feed backs could as so
occur, such as .....
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How Eagles Live
Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3.... to be thirty or more years old. The adult golden eagle is evenly dark below, or with a lighting at the base of its tail. An immature golden eagle shows a white flash in the wing at the base of the primaries, and a white tail with a broad dark terminal band.
The golden eagle is found in the mountainous regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and is a partial migrant. The golden eagle eats rodents, snakes, birds, and can eat full-grown deer and sheep. They are now fully protected by law, but sheepherders once killed many, because it was thought that they preyed heavily on livestock.
The golden eagles make nests that ca .....
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Lasers
Number of words: 1733 | Number of pages: 7.... the first dye laser.
To begin with, I will explain the definition of a laser: It is a device that produces a very narrow powerful beam of light. A laser light is a narrow beam of light, in which all the waves are traveling exactly at the same length and moving together as one. A laser light is made up of only one wavelength and it is a single pure color, while a normal light has many different wavelengths or colors.
The most common laser has three parts to it. They are energy source, an active medium, and optical cavity. An energy source can be anything that can give energy to the active medium through a process called “pu .....
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Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
Number of words: 1467 | Number of pages: 6.... it should be noted that Heath's work was sharply criticized for avoiding safeguards of bias and reporting "changes" that occur normally in the mammalian brain. Wu et al. found a correlation between cannabis use and low sperm counts in human males. This is misleading because a decrease in sperm count has not been shown to have a negative effect on fertility and because the sperm count returns to normal after cannabis use has stopped.. Another claim made was that cannabis causes chromosome breakage. The primary source for this are studies that were conducted by Dr. Gabriel Nahas in the early 1980s. Nahas observed abnormalities .....
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