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Papers on Science and Nature
Effects Of Smoking
Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2.... poisonous gases released from a car exhaust pipe. Carbon
monoxide is a colorless and odorless, highly toxic gas that
reduces the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry.
Combined with the effects produced by the nicotine, it
creates an imbalance in the demand for oxygen by the cells
and the amount of oxygen the blood is able to supply.
Tar is another chemical produced from cigarette smoke.
Tar contains at least 30 cancer causing irritants. Tar is a
mixture of several substances that condense into a sticky
substance on the lung. Tobacco manufactures have produced a
cigarette that is low tar and low nicotine to reduc .....
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Anxiety Disorders
Number of words: 1198 | Number of pages: 5.... unpredictable attacks of severe anxiety with symptoms not related to any particular situation. (Hale, 1886). The person experiencing the attack may not be aware of the cause. Symptoms include four or more of the following: pounding heart, difficulty breathing, dizziness, chest pain, shaking, sweating, choking, nausea, depersonalization, numbness, fear of dying, flushes, fear of going crazy.
Heredity, metabolic factors, hyperventilation, and psychological factors may contribute to anxiety causing panic attacks. (Hale, 1886)
Panic disorder tends to run in families with first degree relatives of patients having four to seven times .....
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The Threat Of Nuclear Energy
Number of words: 3057 | Number of pages: 12.... screeching, scraping, tearing sounds of a vast machine breaking apart. L. Ray Silver, a leading author who covered the disaster at Chernobyl, said that within the core, steam reacts with zirconium to produce that first explosive in nature’s arsenal, hydrogen. Near-molten fuel fragments shatter nearly incandescent graphite, torching chunks of it, exploding the hydrogen. The explosion breaks every pipe in the building rocking it with such power that the building is split into sections (11-13). You look down at your body and notice that it feels hot and your hands look different. Unknown to you a tremendous amount of neutron .....
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The Promise Of Genetic Engineering
Number of words: 942 | Number of pages: 4.... areas in today's
society. The first one will be the improvement of the world's agricultural
techniques. With an ever-increasing growth in world population, the
Earth's resources are constantly becoming scarce. The advent of genetic
engineering may be used to avert the occurrence of worldwide famine and
starvation. The second one investigated will be in the field of
medical development and study. Currently, genetic diseases are decimating
the world's population. Thousands of people have already died without a
single worthy treatment or cure. Worldwide acceptance and support of this
technology would aid in our battle again .....
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Cryogenics And The Future
Number of words: 1423 | Number of pages: 6.... without adding or extracting heat from the gas or the
surrounding system"(Vance 26). At the same time Pictet used the "Joule-Thompson
Effect," a thermodynamic process that states that the "temperature of a fluid is
reduced in a process involving expansion below a certain temperature and
pressure"(McClintock 4). After Cailletet and Pictet, a third method, known as
cascading, was developed by Karol S. Olszewski and Zygmut von Wroblewski in
Poland. At this point in history Oxygen was now able to be liquefied at 90 K,
then soon after liquid Nitrogen was obtained at 77 K, and because of these
advancements scientist all over the world .....
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Solar Energy - The Energy Of The Future?
Number of words: 332 | Number of pages: 2.... the sunlight from a large area and by the use of lenses and mirrors
can focus the light into a very small area. Very elaborate solar
furnaces have machines that angle the mirrors and lenses to the sun all
day. This system can provide sizeable amounts of electricity and
create extremely high temperatures of over 6000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Solar energy generators are very clean, little waste is emitted
from the generators into the environment. The use of coal, oil and
gasoline is a constant drain, economically and environmentally.
Will solar energy be the wave of the future? Could the worlds
requirement of energy be fulf .....
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Hurricanes
Number of words: 594 | Number of pages: 3.... sea surface, it soaks up more and more water vapour. At the storm center, this new supply of water vapor gets pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in even larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as the updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center. The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil.
In a few days the hurricane will have grown greatly in size and power. The swirling shape of the winds of the hurricane is shaped like a dough-nut. At the center of this .....
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Local Area Network Bridges
Number of words: 1000 | Number of pages: 4.... may be more dynamic than in a single LAN due to possible bridge or LAN failures and hosts being moved around.
Bridge routing algorithms should meet the following requirements:
1) A bridges LAN environment should resemble a single LAN environment as closely as possible. In other words, the extension should be transparent to hosts.
2) The transparency requirement extends to performance requirements, such as low transmission delays, low undetected data corruption and FIFO maintenance.
3) Bridges routing algorithms should be able to adapt quickly to environment changes.
Source Routing Bridges
Source Routing is mostly used to .....
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Gallium
Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2.... white and soft enough to be cut with a knife, gallium takes on a
bluish tinge because of superficial oxidation. Unusual for its low melting
point ( about 30 degrees C, 86 degrees F ), gallium also expands upon
solidification and supercools readily, remaining a liquid at temperatures as
low as 0 degrees C ( 32 degrees F ).
Gallium has the longest usefull liquid range of any element. The liquid
metal clings to glass and similar surfaces. The crystal structure of gallium
is orthorhombic. Natural gallium consists of a mixture of two stable isotopes:
gallium-69 ( 60.4 percent ) and gallium-71 (39.6 percent ).
Somewhat sim .....
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Atomic Bombs
Number of words: 1302 | Number of pages: 5.... called “The Fat Man” and “The Little Boy”. There was later a movie named after the two bombs that showed how they were made and the
experiences that came with making them. A worker was killed during the final stages of the Manhattan Project when a critical assembly of fissile material was accidentally brought together by hand. This incident, which was dramatized in “Fat Man and Little Boy”, pre-dated remote-control assembly of such components, but the hazards of manual
assembly were known at the time (U.S. Nuclear Accidents, Internet). Only 9 months after that, a similar problem occurred which there were 8 peop .....
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