Comets And Asteroids
.... 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 rings, a .....
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Devastation Of The Rain Forests
.... there is one acre less that we have for
possible life saving medicines. About 70 percent of plants used in anti-
cancer drug come are the rain forest. We are slowly destroying the
environment and ourselves. Whether we realize it or not, the world could
quickly come to an ecological stop. Every day 144,000 acres of the
rainforests are cut down, slashed and/or put up in flames. In 1974,
Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square
miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest
forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small
to others in the past .....
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The Destruction Of The Ozone Layer
.... atmosphere.
It is important to remember that ozone is constantly being created and
destroyed in the atmosphere. The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is based
on these reactions. There are many factors that influence the amount of
reactions like season, latitude, and solar cycle. Because of these factors
ozone can vary wildly each day. In the northern latitudes there can be up
to 40% difference than the day before. And in the equator regions, there
might be no variance at all.
Unfortunately, the Congress passed a bill reducing the production of CFC's
based on a NASA document. This document only told half of the truth. It
said th .....
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Thoughts On Acid Rain
.... known antacids can neutralize
acids entering the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large
areas of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or
granite based geology and little top soil, there is not enough buffering
capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on the soil and
the lakes. Therefore over time, the basic environment shifts from an
alkaline to a acidic one. This is why many lakes in the Muskoka, Haliburton,
Algonquin, Parry Sound and Manitoulin districts could lose their fisheries
if sulphur emissions are not reduced substantially.
ACID
The average mean of pH r .....
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UFO Sightings
.... some cases debunk, supposed UFO events.
For example, Earth science researchers have eventually accepted several
phenomena "originally dismissed as folk tales," including meteorites and
certain types of lightning, the panel noted.
The findings are from a four-day workshop held in Tarrytown, N.Y., followed
by a second three-day meeting in San Francisco, both last fall. The results
are published in the current issue of the Society for Scientific
Exploration, which was established by Sturrock.
The inquiry involved scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cornell and Princeton universities, the universities of Ari .....
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The Element Carbon And Its Importance
.... and oxygen. Other
compounds containing carbon include minerals such as limestone, and fuels
such as coal and petroleum. Carbon compounds make up the living tissues of
all animals and plants. There are over one million known carbon compounds
(still growing rapidly every year), which is over the sum total of all the
other elements combined. The largest group of these compounds are the ones
composed of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon also forms another series of
compounds, which is classified as inorganic, but is a much smaller number
than the organic compounds. These millions of compounds combine in various
ways to produce an almo .....
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Aluminum: The Element
.... M. Hall and Paul L. T. Heroult,
independently and almost simultaneously found out that alumna, or aluminum
oxide, would dissolve in fused cryolite (Na3AlF6) and then could be
decomposed electronically into a crude molten metal.
Uses-
The given volume of aluminum weighs less than one-third than steel. Its
high strength to weight ratio makes it very useful. We use it from foils to
cans, to space shuttles. This element is very, very useful and is
recyclable. We use aluminum for conductors as well. We use it to weld
hardware together because of their great conductability.
Since the early 1800's we have seen aluminum as a great me .....
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Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon
.... Deforestation started
hundreds of years ago, but only became a major problem in the second half
of this century, when it increased dramatically. It was enhanced by the
Brazilian government which started cutting down the forest to construct a
vast network of highways in an effort to establish a good transportation
system and improve Brazil's economy. The government wanted to encourage
the country's development by transporting poor families from overpopulated
areas of the country to Amazonia. Many poor people saw emigration into the
Amazon as an opportunity to attain a higher standard of living. This
finally offered them a chance .....
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Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions
.... 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 this to make the forests last longer and to m .....
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Crystals: Does Surface Tension Affect The Process Of Crystallization?
.... are formed
under water or under liquids with similar characters to water; and tend to
form under liquids or solutions containing a maximum amount of solute. If
the liquid absorbs additional solute, then the solution is supersaturated.
If a tiny crystal, called a seed crystal, is added to the substance, a
chain reaction would occur where the crystal growth will grow dramatically.
In the case of the experiment, a staple is used instead of a crystal so
that the crystal can be easily removed at the end of the experiment. One
may wonder, if a certain characteristic of the solution were to be changed
or altered, then would the gro .....
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Experiment To See If Soaking A Golf Ball Affects Its Distance
.... into a solid, one piece ball.Gutta percha was black, so the
early balls were painted white. Easier to make, less expensive, and more
durable, the gutta revolutionized golf. When golfers discovered that balls
and nicks flew longer and straighter then new ones, manufactures began to
give them a textured, even pattern surface. The most popular early pattern
was the bramble, which featured raised round bumps in concentric circles.
the first wound rubber ball was introduced in 1898. the three-piece
Haskell was the first ball to mix distance and control. Cleveland
entrepreneur Coburn Haskell, with Akron BFGoodrich engine .....
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Victor Frankenstein And His Use Of Science
.... a human being from other, deceased
human beings, this could be compared to cloning today, making one creature
from another. The possibility, or theory of genetic engineering can
guarantee that humans would be without deformity, affliction or frailty.
Victor Frankenstein may not have chosen parts for his monster, or human
that were necessarily beautiful, but Victor Frankenstein tried to make his
product as earthborn as possible.
Victor Frankenstein was simply doing the same thing that scientists
have always been trying to do. Victor Frankenstein is trying to be like
Charles Darwin and explain where life comes from. According t .....
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