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- 13831: Chemistry-soaps And Detergents
- ... have a big market commercially, they effect everyone. Soaps are made from natural products and soapless detergents are produced chemically, each having advantages and disadvantages. Soap has a much longer history than its relatively new synthetic version. There is evidence of soap made in Mediterranean countries around 2500 years ago. The basic process has not changed much although now the chemistry is understood. Soap is made from the process called ... will perform better. Detergents were first developed in the 1940s. The criteria was a molecule with a long non polar hydrocarbon chain and a polar group on one end. This was achieved and the new substance is closely related to ordinary soap. An important base in the manufacture of detergents is sodium alkyl benzene sulphonate. O O R-C becomes R-S O-Na+ O O-Na+ The detergents produced this way work equally well in hard, soft, acid, hot or cold water. They dont leave scum and are very powerful cleaning agents. However, the new product is so stable that it persistent in water waste and does not break down. There were problems with excessive foaming in natural and sewage waterways. The solution to this was to replace non ...
- 13832: Creative Writing: The Wave
- ... and his Nazi's to show these students what they are becoming. I will tell them all that they would make great Nazi's. I mean, look at it, how close did they come to World War Three happening in the extreme. That would make me the new age Hitler and I can't and won't let that happen. Well, that is what I will do, I will stop this immature stupidity and end this. It has to work, if so I ...
- 13833: Creative Writing: The Inferno
- ... a bed. Rather, it seems as if it were molded to fit my body alone. Is there no solace? The closet stands only two feet away from the front of the bed. Inside is a world of death and destruction. My clothes are victims of either neglect or overuse. My shoes, an array of black, sit near the foot of the closet. They too are innocent victims of negligence or abuse. They are casualties of an reckless spirit. The stench of decay creeps from my nose into my mouth. I lick my lips in disgust of this new taste. As I look about the room, I notice the mirror above the dresser. It is warped and misleading. Gazing into the mirror, I see more than just my body. I see a being crying ...
- 13834: Creative Story: If At First You Don't Succeed
- Creative Story: If At First You Don't Succeed "Eureka!" Sam excitedly exclaimed. "I've done it! I'm set for life and my happiness is assured. With this new invention I'll be honored for my brilliance, and I might even win the nobel prize!" he chirped ecstatically. Sam was a chicken, the great great great grandson of the Not-So-Great Chixken Little ... the most tiresome and busy months of his life. Everyone wanted artificial grass. It was a fad among the calves. The adults enjoyed it too. Orders poured in like rain during a monsson, and his new company, Arto-Grass was thriving. But Sam was not happy. He had thought the bushals of grain would be enough to satisfy him, but he didn't want to deal with the responsibility of owning ... have heard, from sources that I'm afraid are not at my disposal to reveal, so don't ask, that your company is going to suddenly turn around and go down the tube. Once the new idea has soaked in., the cattle are going to lose interest, and are already losing interest in Arto-Grass. Again, since I am your friend, I decided to buy the company for four bushals ...
- 13835: Cd Roms
- CD:ROM drives are the thing of the future. CD:ROMs are used in almost every computer around the world. CD:ROM stands for COMPACT DISK READ ONLY MEMORY. That means that you can only read information off the disk. Three and a half disks are disks that you can read and wriye infromation from ... only have two boxes you can only have a three and a half drive and a CD:ROM drive or a five and a quarter drive and a three and a half drive. With the new computers you do not need a five and a quarter drive because they are pieces of crap anyways. An external drive drive does not go on the inside of the computer. It stays on the ...
- 13836: Personal WritingAn Event That Changed My Life
- ... there if you look, if you accept, if you are open. For the act of closing is futile. You cannot see his heart, but you can feel his love. The children run out into the new day to find the bitter cold exciting. When tucked into their warm beds, the world was dreaming. They dread the next day, waiting for the arrival of the school bus. But when they awoke to the whiteness, the pureness, a sort of childish bliss swept through them, for this kind ...
- 13837: Why I Hate the Mall
- ... would be Poughkeepsie taxi cabs. I never understood why it is that each and every one of them have air freshners which are so putrid smelling, they make one long for the odor of a New York City cabbie's "natural cologne". After enduring ten minutes of the cabbie's "lemme tell ya what's wrong with this country", I finally get to my destination. As soon as I got there ... read the back of a box while her son is pulling on her pant leg. His insistence for attention becomes more and more adamant. He is obviously trying to convince her to buy him a new toy. I could never really understand why people take kids into the toy stores if they don't intend to buy anything. It seems like such a tease. The kid is going to want to buy something, whether it's a new Sega game or a Matchbox car. Eventually, the woman relents and buys the sought after item. For the moment, the kid is satiated. Three boys, no more than fifteen years of age, walk into ...
- 13838: My First Job at Buzzy's Diner
- My First Job at Buzzy's Diner The first job I had was at Buzzy's Diner, located in a small suburban town in upstate New York. It isn't a classy restaurant, it isn't even a very clean one, but during the hours that its open in the morning it is probably the busiest place within fifteen miles. Although ... them were good friends of the owner's father, "Buzzy" Oley, and the place brings back a lot of memories to them. For a lot of people, Buzzy's is a part of the changing world that seems to remain unaffected by time. Older people are not the only people who come to Buzzy's and socialize with each other. Every weekend there are countless numbers of people saying "Hi, nice ...
- 13839: The Written Word Lives On
- ... doubt of the knowledge and abilities books shamelessly impart upon me. I wallow in it at every opportunity. Possessing an open mind navigates me out of the awkward situations in life. When I meet a new person it I feel no difficulty in sharing ideas and making compromise. Reading a variety of stories by a variety of authors contributed this. These authors take a masterpiece and thrown in some dastardly character ... stars almost biting. The place where I exist never to perish. Held tightly by my rainy day friend. In his flaps riddled with adventure. Resting in anticipation of the flesh's next excursion in a world harsh with reality. Knowing putting down my book for a while hurts my feelings only because no thing fleshy stacks up against the tower of my mind. A curse on the demon standing between my ...
- 13840: Personal Writing: A Schoolyard Lesson
- ... Nikes. After giving up on my hair; I ran into the kitchen and snatched my lunch box off the counter. Soon I was out the door and on to face my first day at my new school. After defeating the labyrinth of streets that we call our neighborhood, and meeting my first crossing guard; I made my way into the school. It was quite crowded , but I knew where I was ... soon as the bell rang I felt all right. We went through the motions for awhile: filling out paper work, introducing ourselves, all the first day stuff. I heard a few kids say they were new to the area, of which Brian Vedder was the only boy. He wasn't much to look at, not a soap opera star, or a great athlete, just a regular kid. Nonetheless I thought I ... few of the soccer players and he might be able to get them to play football. The next person I could count on was Melvin Jackson. I met Melvin while in math class, he was new to the school too, and he was dying to play football too. With these two I could at least throw the ball around, and hope for others to join in. The next morning I ...
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