Exploring the Atom to Understand Science Better (Popularity:  )
Most of us who have studied science know about atoms. Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Atoms join to form molecules and molecules are arranged in a particular manner and we see a matter. For example in a gas the molecules are all dispersed. In liquid they are nearer to each other whereas in a solid they are compacted together. What is the atom?
Atom is made of a nucleus ...
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Technology Used in Astronomy Today (Popularity: )
Astronomy is a topic in science. For most of astronomy, there are scientific instruments in use. These can be telescopes, which have different technologies, and also that of using computers. In this article, we will take a look at technology used in astronomy today.
Since the dawn of time, man has looked up at the stars in amazement. What were these shimmering lights in the night sky? A torch to light ...
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The Science of Astronomy Today (Popularity: )
When we think of astronomy, we may be inclined to think that it only deals with scientists and astronomers looking up at objects in space with a telescope. However, there is far more to astronomy than simply looking at objects in space. In this article, we will look into the science of astronomy.
The countdown has started, and astronauts in are preparing for a journey that will take them to our ...
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Industrial Enzymes (Popularity: )
Historical background
Most of the reactions in living organisms are catalyzed by protein molecules called enzymes. Enzymes can rightly be called the catalytic machinery of living systems. The real break through of enzymes occurred with the introduction of microbial proteases into washing powders. The first commercial bacterial Bacillus protease was marketed in 1959 and major detergent manufactures started to use it around 1965.
The industrial enzyme producers sell enzymes for a wide ...
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Where is Gold Found? (Popularity: )
Gold is well-known and treasured mineral that touches all of our lives, but most of us at some point wonder where gold is found. After all, it doesn't just appear in ring form wrapped around finger or in bullion form locked in a vault somewhere. Gold has to be mined before it can be processed and turned into such objects.
The top source of gold in the world over the last ...
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Rainforest Plants - Tonka Bean (Popularity: )
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dipteryx
Species: odorata
Common Names: cumaru, tonka, tonka bean tree, amburana, imburana de cheiro, tonquin bean, rumara, kumaru, cumaruzeiro, charapilla, charapilla del murcielago
General Description: Tonka bean is a long seed from a Guiana shrub that grows in South America , specifically Guiana. This leguminous shrub is Dipteryx odorata, in the Fabaceae family. Tonka bean can be used as a vanilla substitute; however, it actually combines aromatic essences ...
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Evolution Vs Science Vs Modernity (Popularity: )
It is hard to believe in some of the biological and fairy junks I may be saying here, but if you have read ordinary and advance biology, physiology, medicine, neurology, brain-science and human ecology, discrediting this essay will be simply difficult to do, because in it stand a very special attributes of modern day debate, and the crux of technology. Apart from having a scientific insight into what this essay ...
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Physics - Electricity and Magnetism (Popularity: )
How are electricity and magnetism created?
Electricity has a direct relation to magnetism.
Both phenomena have their origin in the positive and negative charges of atoms.
Atoms maintain a neutral charge when in a static or calm state. In this case, the positively charged protons and negatively charged neutrons appear in the same number in atoms and their combined forces are balanced.
With the addition of energy, atoms can either release or ...
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Latest on Cosmetic Foot Surgery (Popularity: )
Women’s obsessions with shoes are an enigma. And a foot is hardly an after thought--especially when it comes to high fashion.
And that’s why women who aren’t happy their pedal appearance, are doing anything to put their best foot forward.A big trend these days is cosmetic foot surgery--being done in the name of Jimmy Choo.The focus---feet.The fetish: fashion.“
Working in corporate American you have to be trendy and where the latest style ...
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TOC, What Is It? (Popularity: )
Simply put TOC is Total Organic Carbon. It matters when making drinking water because carbon can react with chlorine forming by products that could possibly make the water more hazardous than it was prior to disinfection. TOC matters in wastewater because it is the source of food that allows bacteria to consume all the oxygen in receiving streams and cause fish kills. TOC matters in stream sediments because heavy metals ...
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