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Papers on Science and Nature
Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions
Number of words: 329 | Number of pages: 2.... CO2 emissions will not be costly and time consuming.
Dry air is made up of about 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent
oxygen. For living things, the two most important gases are oxygen and
carbon dioxide. All plants and animals in respiration use oxygen.
Respiration is the process by which food is changed to energy.
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants make sugar and starches.
Thus nature restores oxygen and carbon dioxide to the air about as fast as
they are used up.
There should be money invested in to this because it will help the
environment and it will make forests last longer. All industries should
invent into .....
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Depression..a Deadly Disease
Number of words: 1858 | Number of pages: 7.... illness, including mind, mood, body, and thoughts. It effects everything from the way you sleep to the way you feel about yourself. It effects how you react and how you see things. Depressive illnesses often interfere with normal functioning and cause pain and suffering not only to those who have the disorder but also to the ones who care about them. Depression can rip apart families and destroy the life of an innocent person. This happens to many people because, unfortunately, they do not recognize that they have a treatable illness, and don't seek medical help. With many types of depression and numerous causes, an innumerable amo .....
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Comets And Asteroids
Number of words: 1639 | Number of pages: 6.... around Saturn, and the belt on the outside of the orbit of Mars.
These are pieces of larger rocks that were crashed into the remaining
pieces after millions of years of crashes.
Each ring system has distinctive features. Jupiter's rings are
tenuous and made mainly of dark particles the size of those in cigarette
smoke. The bright rings of Saturn are made of mainly frozen water in the
form of snowballs and chunks of ice. Saturn has thousands of rings, some
twisted, showing off dusty, spooky markings that form and change constantly.
The dark rings of Uranus seem to be made of charcoal or smokey materials.
Uranus has nine main r .....
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Vivisection
Number of words: 1437 | Number of pages: 6.... experiments on monkeys, swine, and goats (1:3). By the late
eighteenth century, the methods of scientific discovery were changer to
experimentation of live animals by two French physiologists, Claude Bernard and
Francious Magnedie. They revolutionized methods of scientific discovery by
establishing live animal as common practice (1:4). Claude Bernard believed that
in order for medicine to progress, there must be experimental research, and
affirmed that "vivisection is indispensable for physical research". This is when
the anti-vivisection movement was established ("vivisection").
There are different views as to why or why not th .....
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The Praying Mantis
Number of words: 3360 | Number of pages: 13.... species make
up the Mantidae family of insects. The Mantidae family, in turn, is part of the
order/suborder Mantodea that includes a variety of mantid-like species. But the
existing literature does not reflect a clear consensus about what insect order
Mantodea belong in. Some have placed Mantodea in the Dictyoptera Order-with the
roaches. Others place Mantodea in the Orthoptera Order-with crickets and
grasshoppers. Finally, some believe that Mantodea constitute their own
independent order of insects. There seems to be an emerging consensus around
this position.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
The Mantis Religiosa was first named suc .....
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Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation
Number of words: 1001 | Number of pages: 4.... we can. The rainforests provide safety and life to millions of kinds of life, they may contain cures to many of the world's diseases, and they provide over 60 percent of the world's supply oxygen to humans and other animals. Destroying these beautiful and key parts of the world would be catastrophic to mankind. There are many ways in which we can conserve our natural rainforests, and thus partly ensure our survival on earth. Two of these ways are through education of mankind on just how much we need the rainforests and what they can do to save them and through mass reforestation.
Without a complete understanding of the prob .....
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Minerals
Number of words: 174 | Number of pages: 1.... a
positive response to their environment, most of them to deep for an observer.
Environments in which minerals are formed far beneath the earths surface are
plutonic igneous, pegmatitic, hot temperature vein, moderate temp. vein, low
temp. vein, and a metamorphic environment. Environments in which minerals form
near the earths surface are groundwater, weathering, and sedimentary. Minerals
are divided into groups on the basis of their composition. About one third of
all mineral belong to the group silicates. Other groups are carbonates they
includes calcite, oxide which includes magnetite, sulfides which includes pyrite,
halid .....
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A Critique Of The Stanford Experiment
Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3.... was used). All of the participants in this experiment at
first were thought to be similar in behavior but after one week, all of
that changed. The prisoners became "passive, dependent, and helpless."
The guards on the other hand were the exact opposite. They became
"aggressive and abusive within the prison, insulting and bullying the
prisoners."
After the experiment was finished, many of the mock guards said
that they enjoyed the power. Others said that they had no idea that they
were capable of being so corrupt. The experimenter was shocked at the
results as well saying, "It was degrading....To me, those things are sick .....
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Adamantane
Number of words: 2393 | Number of pages: 9.... Landa and Machcahcaeck who used the Greek translation of diamond, , to identify the compound.2
Crude petroleum is separated into its component compounds by fractional distillation. The procedure involves a sample of the petroleum to be heated until the sample is vaporized leaving behind any solid impurities. The resulting steam enters a fractional distillation column in which a temperature gradient had been instilled. The temperature of the column decreases as the steam rises through the column. The idea is that, as the temperature of the column decreases, the vapor temperature will decrease. When the boiling point of a compou .....
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Value Of Environmental Agencies
Number of words: 990 | Number of pages: 4.... Kathlyn Gay, author of Rainforests of
the World, mentions, “Indigenous people in many countries have died because of
contact with outsiders-usually whites of northern European extraction-who have
brought contagious diseases, ranging from measles to influenza, and sexually
transmitted disease”(20). With the importance of the land resources comes the
ever significance of the atmosphere. The atmosphere's most predictive component
is the ozone layer. The distribution of the forests and multiplying of grazing
cattle are causes immense damage to the ozone. John Nichol, head of Worldfest
90' production and marketing, alludes, .....
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