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Papers on Science and Nature
Acid Rain
Number of words: 1923 | Number of pages: 7.... large. Detecting an acid lake is
often quite difficult. A lake does not become acid over night. It happens over a
period of many years, some times decades. The changes are usually to gradual for
them to be noticed early.
At the beginning of the 20th century most rivers/lakes like the river
Tovdal in Norway had not yet begun to die. However by 1926 local inspectors were
noticing that many of the lakes were beginning to show signs of death. Fish were
found dead along the banks of many rivers. As the winters ice began to melt off
more and more hundreds upon hundreds more dead fish (trout in particular) were
being found. It was a .....
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Chromatography
Number of words: 666 | Number of pages: 3.... with solutes) are: solids (adsorption), ionic groups on a resin (ion-exchange), liquids on an inert solid support (partitioning), and porous inert particles (size exclusion). The mixture to be separated is loaded onto the top of the column followed by more solvent. The different components in the sample mixture pass through the column at different rates due to differences in their partition behavior between the mobile phase and the stationary phase. The compounds are separated by collecting aliquots of the column effluent as a function of time.
Conventional Liquid is most commonly used in preparative scale work to puri .....
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Computer Mediated Evnvironment
Number of words: 5150 | Number of pages: 19.... consumers are able to check airline flight schedules and make reservations, purchase a wide variety of products, and discuss product performance with other consumers, are becoming very popular. Households in Chicago and San Francisco can purchase groceries from home using computer software marketed by Peapod, Inc. This latter service allows consumers to search within a product category using attributes such as price, calories, sugar content, and package size. Car manufacturers such as BMW regularly mail CD-ROMs to potential customers with video shots of the cars and data both about the cars and their competitors. Durable goo .....
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Gold And Its Uses.
Number of words: 2573 | Number of pages: 10.... foot sheet.
Gold is the most reflective and least absorptive material of infrared (or heat) energy. High purity gold reflects up to 99% of infrared rays. Gold is also an excellent conductor of thermal energy or heat. Since many electronic processes create heat, gold is necessary to transfer heat away from delicate instruments. Gold alloy is the most tenacious and long-performing material available for protection of these temperatures.
Geologists use the latest technology such as satellite surveys and geochemistry to locate an ore deposit. Computers are used to design the mine, which requires precise and accurate measurement of .....
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Censorship
Number of words: 612 | Number of pages: 3.... to change the channel but let’s be realistic, how many parents/guardians actuarially have the time to monitor everything there children watch. So most children do end up viewing these programs anyway, and whether we like it or not,the truth of the matter is television educates our children. They educate our children inboth a positive and negative way. In order to minimizes the negative effects the laws and regulations most be stricter then the currently are.
on the Internet is a very important issue but it currently does not really exist because it cost to much money, time and effort to censor the billions of pages on the ne .....
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Lichens
Number of words: 571 | Number of pages: 3.... most cannot survive in industrial air pollution. There are notable exceptions, however: in England, for example, Lecanora conizaeoides is actually confined to areas of high pollution.
The body of the lichen, the thallus, has three basic growth forms. These forms are crustose, foliose, and fruticose. Each form is adapted to live under different moisture conditions. The crustose resemble a crust that has become attached to a surface and are well suited to dry areas. Foliose, or leafy, need much greater amounts of water. Some of them even grow on rocks in streams. Fruticose thrive in humid regions, where they are able to absorb w .....
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El Nino
Number of words: 1143 | Number of pages: 5.... the thermocline is lower than normal. Finally,
thermocline rises in the west, making upwelling easier and water colder. Air
pressures at sea level in the South Pacific seesaw back and forth between two
distinct patterns. In the high index phase, also called "Southern Oscillation",
pressure is higher near and to the east of Tahiti than farther to the west near
Darwin. The east-west pressure difference along the equator causes the surface
air to flow westward. When the atmosphere switches into the low index phase,
barometers rise in the west and fall in the east, signaling a reduction, or even
a reversal the pressure difference b .....
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Acid Rain 2
Number of words: 695 | Number of pages: 3.... of animals. Even though these toxic metals do not directly affect the animals, they have serious effects on humans when they are being eaten.
How did it happen? One of the main causes of acid rain is sulphur dioxide. Natural sources that let out this gas are volcanoes, sea spray , rotting vegetation and plankton. However, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, are largely to be blamed for about half of the emissions of this gas in the world. When sulphur dioxide gets in the atmosphere, it oxidizes to first form a sulphate ion. It then becomes sulphuric acid as it joins with hydrogen atoms in the air and falls ba .....
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Electrochemistry
Number of words: 446 | Number of pages: 2.... Some synthetic processes can only be done using electrochemical
methods, and electrochemical methods are used in the large-to-medium-scale
synthesis of organic "fine chemicals" because of the financial, safety and
environmental advantages. Here's a page outlining some current research by
one of my graduate school professors.
I can think of at least three common uses of electrochemistry:
pH meters and other measuring devices
pH meters are electrochemical devices. They measure pH by comparing the
electrical properties of a solution to those of a reference electrode.
Other types of electrochemistry are used in other .....
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Nuclear Power
Number of words: 356 | Number of pages: 2.... Book vol. 14, 586)
Nuclear power plants generate only about eleven percent of the world’s
electricity. There are around 316 nuclear power plants in the world
that create 213,000 megawatts of electricity. (INFOPEDIA)
Radioactive, or nuclear, waste is the by-product of nuclear fission.
Fission occurs when atoms’ nucleus’ split and cause a nuclear reaction.
(General Information) When a free neutron splits a nucleus, energy is
released along with free neutrons, fission fragments that give off beta
rays, and gamma rays. A free neutron from the nucleus that just split
splits another nucleus. This proces .....
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