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The Classification And Formation Of Crystals
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... three axes, all perpendicular to one
another and all have equal length.
Tetragonal
This system comprises crystals with three axes, all perpendicular to one
another; but only two are equal in length.
Orthorhombic
This system comprises crystals with three mutually perpendicular axes,
all of different lengths.
Monoclinic
This system comprises crystals with three axes, all unequal in length,
two o which are not perpendicular to another, but both of which are
perpendicular to the third.
Triclinic
This system comprises crystals with three axes, all unequal in length
and is not perpendicular to o ...
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Disaster Spills Across Bhopal
Number of Words: 887 / Number of Pages: 4
... were building in a tank and called for assistance, but by then it was too late. At 12:56 a.m., the morning of December 3rd, a faulty valve ruptured, allowing the deadly gas to escape into the atmosphere and cause a huge vapor puff to fall onto silent, sleeping Bhopal (Cush, 30).
Before the release of 40 tons of MIC, Bhopal was a prospering city. The population was growing to about 700,000 people. In India large corporations were encouraged to build there to bring more jobs to the community and raise the economy. So when Union Carbide built their plant in the middle of heavy slums and shantytowns, ...
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Animal Research
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... techniques to doctors who perform today's delicate cardiac, ear, eye, pulmonary, brain surgeries, and other live saving surgery's. And most people faced with their death would rather live even if it meant killing animals.
Next, animals help other animals as well. Veterinarians must learn the surgical techniques first so they can perfect their skills before they use them on other animals. Drugs for animals also use animal research to find cures for animal disease.
Of course there are ways to avoid using animals in research. The way is to use investigators, cell, tissue, organ, and computer m ...
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Nuclear Power
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... down the government for giving money
to nuclear industries and claims that doing this is "totally inappropriate
for government." I don't know if Dr. Gofman understands that we are kind of
running out of energy sources, and until we better develop things like
solar power to make them more useful and economical, we may need energy
sources like nuclear power in the very near future. Next he tries to
convince the public that the nuclear supporters and groups like BEIR
(Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) lied about their findings of the
number of deaths caused by radiation to be zero. He goes through ...
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Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
Number of Words: 3241 / Number of Pages: 12
... College in 1826. Owen was later appointed assistant in the cataloging of a collection
containing thirteen thousand specimens (known as the Hunterian Collection (Rupke 17)). It was probably this that
lead Owen interest in the field of anatomy, which eventually lead him into becoming a naturalist. By 1836, he
published anatomical work on the Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Rupke 119). Within a year, he was giving
lectures to the public on the the Hunterian Collection. These lectures were often attended by important and
royalty figures of Victorian England. Charles Darwin was also one of the ...
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Medical Revolutions
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... the younger men, those who made up the bulk of the army surgeons, usually held a medical school diploma along with an office internship. Little attention was paid to clinical instruction, and in most cases the laboratory was all but forgotten. Further, stethoscopes, thermometers, syringes, and the like were widely used in Europe while many doctors here at home had never seen them let alone used them.
In regard to ability and competence, there is no reason to believe the doctors in the North and the South differed in any significant way. While the North was home to more prestigious medical institut ...
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Cloning
Number of Words: 459 / Number of Pages: 2
... cruel to make human clones without real parents, without being unique. If you were to make a copy of a human, you would not be treating that child as an individual. While many people want to be cloned, nobody wants to be a clone.
We must also remember that immoral means never justifies the end, no matter what benifits that end may bring. The horrific experiments conducted on Jewish Prisoners in Nazi Germany remind us that there is some knowledge that we must not pursue.
This leads us to our second contention.
SECOND CONTENTION
When the question of Liberty verses Progress arises, we will con ...
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Is There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Number of Words: 1451 / Number of Pages: 6
... Report Wendy Griffith). The senate also believes that they will affect Medicare, power companies, banks, and stocks.
People now believe that they must remove their money from the banks. This is true, but most of them are waiting until the end of the year to do this. If everyone goes to the bank simultaneously to remove their money, then they will cause an automatic depression. The banks do not have all of the money in the bank at the times that people will want their money. If everyone takes their money out of the banks at the same time, then all the money that is in the government, overseas, and ...
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Cloning Has Science Gone Too Far
Number of Words: 1295 / Number of Pages: 5
... animals is ethical or even moral. Also there has been much discussion as to whether or not the benefits of cloning outweigh the dangers.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS IN CLONING RESEARCH?
There is no doubt that Dr. Wilmut's new discoveries have brought an uproar of excitement between not only the scientific community, but the general public as well. Groups such as farmers, surgeons and even environmentalists have shown various interests in cloning research.
The farming community has expressed much intrigue in cloning for the purpose of being able to reproduce copies of their best animals. For examp ...
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Lamarck's Influence On The Development Of Darwin's Theory Of Evolution
Number of Words: 1954 / Number of Pages: 8
... about
excitement and attention. He was the one who showed law in organic and inorganic
species evolution. As it turned out, the work of Lamarck was quite influential
on Darwin. Lamarck's views on inheritance of characteristics can be seen in
Darwin's accounts of natural selection. When Lamarck wrote of transmutation,
Darwin followed with his beliefs of the mutability of species. As well, Darwin
had used Lamarck's ideas on use and disuse of organs. Lamarck was not the
greatest of influences on Darwin, but he was an important one.
One of the most important arguments in Darwin's theories was the i ...
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