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Stop Pollution
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... currents.
Without the ocean there would be no life on land. Most of Earth's living space, is ocean, about 97%. And also 97% of Earth's water is ocean. There is a greater variety of living creatures in the ocean than anywhere on land. Scientists say that (including microscopic creatures) there may be 10 to 100 million unnamed species on the ocean bed alone. And that it could take up to 5000 years to classify them.
The sea is a very has a very important contribution to human life. We shouldn't take the services that it provides, for granted. Like never before, in the past century, man has removed billi ...
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Solutions Around You
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... will not separate no matter how long the solution is allowed to stand under constant conditions. In a solution, one substance is usually considered to be dissolved, or broken down in another. The substance that is dissolved is called the solute. The substance that does the dissolving is the solvent. Not every substance dissolves in every other substances. A substance that dissolves in another substance is called soluble. Soluble means capable of being dissolved. A substance that does not dissolve is called insoluble.
TYPES OF SOLUTION
There are several different possible combinations of so ...
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Bioremediation Of Explosives In Contaminated Soil
Number of Words: 2522 / Number of Pages: 10
... At the Oregon site, composting is projected to save 2.6 million dollars compared with incinerating the contaminated soils. In addition to saving money, composting will also avoid the need for burning fossil fuels and will produce an end product usable for backfilling, landscaping, or erosion control.
Introduction
Whether people know it or not explosives, such as tnt, are a very important part of their lives. Since World War I, munitions have been manufactured in the United States using a variety of energetic materials, including propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnic (PEP) materials. (Noy ...
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Newton's First Law Of Motion
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... the car would come to a stop sometime. We assume this because
it is true. It is true because there is friction between the tires and the road.
The car now has inertia in uniform motion. Since there is friction, the car
cannot keep moving forever because friction is an unbalanced force acting upon
the tires.
What if there was not any friction? The car would keep going forever.
That is if there was not any wind or a hill or any unbalanced force acting upon
the car. This is rather weird just to think about. Because this usually would
not happen in our customary world today. You just would not se ...
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Neptune
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... helium, water and methane. The atmospheric composition is 85%
Hydrogen, 13% Helium, and 2% methane. The planet's atmosphere, particularly
the outer layers, contains substantial amounts of methane gas. Absorption of
red light by the atmospheric methane is responsible for Neptune's deep blue
color. Neptune is a dynamic planet with several large, dark spots reminiscent of
Jupiter's hurricane-like storms. The largest spot, known as the Great Dark Spot,
is about the size of the earth and is similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
Neptune receives less than half as much sunlight as Uranus, but heat ...
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Radioactive Wastes
Number of Words: 1801 / Number of Pages: 7
... process that enables the following
operations to be carried out with the same equipment: evaporation of the waste
solution mixed with the additives necesary for the production of borosilicate
glass, calcination and elaboration of the glass. These operations are carried
out in a metallic pot that is heated in an induction furnace. The vitrification
of one load of wastes comprises of the following stages. The first step is
'Feeding'. In this step the vitrification receives a constant flow of mixture of
wastes and of additives until it is 80% full of calcine. The feeding rate and
heating power are ...
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Mercury
Number of Words: 447 / Number of Pages: 2
... to our moon because it has a
lot of craters. The craters, which cover seventy-five percent of Mercury’s
surface, were formed by huge rocks that smashed into the planet’s surface. The
largest crater is called the Caloris Basin and it is 1400 km in diameter and is
flooded with molten lava. Mercury also has many cliffs that are usually over
300 miles long and two miles high. The rest of the planet’s surface is smooth
and may have been formed by lava flowing out of cracks in the surface.
Temperatures on Mercury vary greatly because of it’s closeness to the
sun. The surface temperature on the s ...
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Are UFOs Real?
Number of Words: 3163 / Number of Pages: 12
... in interstellar travel. Another hypothesis on the nature of UFOs is the demonic force hypothesis. It states that the UFOs represent demons coming to earth for the final battle between good and evil (Randle 112). The not so widely accepted theory is that of hallucination/dream. Its major debunker is that mass hallucinations would have to be fairly common. The final hypothesis on UFO sightings is the null hypothesis, which states that they simply do not exist (Randle 114).
There are three different specific types of sightings. First comes the Close Encounter of the First Kind. In this setting, a UFO is ...
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Gps
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... doesn't mean that we won't get lost, but it is more difficult to get lost, and it's definetly easier to find your way around if you do get lost. When get in your car, all you have to do is type in your destination and the computer will show you where your destination is, aswell as how to get there and the easiest and fastest way to get there. These systems are being used to make everything more convenient, easier, safer, and quicker for not only the user of the navigation system but everyone else too; for example, if someone is hurt, or even if a house is on fire, 911 will dispatch vehicles conta ...
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Causes Of Schizophrenia
Number of Words: 959 / Number of Pages: 4
... as well as studies of ill individuals who were adopted away before the onset
of illness.
It is fair to say that even such studies do not suggest inherited
factors as the sole causes. A more reasonable explanation is that
there are individuals who have an inherited proneness to illness.
Such individuals may fall ill, if in addition, they are exposed to
noxious factors in the environment such as drugs. This model' is
similar to that already proven in the causation of diseases like
diabetes and raised blood pressure. It is important to stress that
statistical analysis does not support ...
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