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- 6151: Malibu Fires
- ... no control over. Many streets in the city of Malibu are closely intertwined with the environment. Dense overgrowth crowded the narrow streets which made it virtually impossible for fire crews to challenge some of the house fires with the appropriate equipment. Ornamental plants and overgrowth also added to the intensity of the fire making it hard for firefighters to get close to the burning houses. The topography of Malibu presented the ...
- 6152: Landfills: A Growing Menace
- ... can stop the growing mounds of trash that are piling up around the country. Works Cited: Gore, Albert. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton, 1992. MacKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989. Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1994. Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish!. New York: Harper, 1992. Turk, Jonathan. Environmental Science. New York: Holt, 1984. Udall, Stewart. The Quiet ...
- 6153: Hydrogen: The Fuel of The Future
- ... power your furnace or your hot water heater . No electrical power at all is required. The reaction also gives off a tremendous amount of heat. Even the waste heat could be captured for heating the house. The resulting sodium aluminate is harmless and could be collected at recoiling centers for complete acid/base neutralization. This way is a simpler way than electrolysis produce hydrogen for heating the home, because in a ...
- 6154: Household Waste!
- ... t mix any chemicals with one another." This is an excellent example of common mistakes people make when dealing with household chemicals/cleaners. In this assignment I will examine different cleaners commonly used in my house. I Ajax I go to the cupboard and find a can of the powder, Ajax. The can use to have a piece of tape to cover the top but now it has been lost; a ...
- 6155: Death of a Planet
- ... little bit our planet would be a safer place to live. Carbon dioxide is another gas released through exhaust emissions. It isn't dangerous directly to humans, but it is considered to be a "green house gas." A "greenhouse gas" is a gas that is associated with global warming. Global warming is the gradual increase of temperature due to human activity. Certain gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone allow ...
- 6156: Can We Say "NO" To Recycling
- ... products affect children mentally and physically. In addition, carbon dioxide is considered one of the main reasons of global warming because the molecule itself captures heat an stores it in it thus creating the green house effect. Besides plastics are rather toxicating when burnt according to Plenum, Acrylic type plastics emit HCN gas, Bromine components that are added to plastics results in the emissionof HBr , which are all dangerous pollutants (157 ...
- 6157: Acid Rain
- ... time, even if we were to stop today we would have the problem for years to come because of the build up in the soil. Let's hope we can do something. BIBLIOGRAPHY Penguin Publishing House, 1987 , Pearce Fred Acid Rain. What is it and what is it doing to us?
- 6158: Volcanos
- ... the air during an eruption. The magma falls as volcanic bombs, which accumulate around the vent and form steep-sided but relatively small cinder cones. volcanic bombs range in size from fine- grained ash to house-size blocks. Cinder cones most commonly consist of volcanic fragments any where from ash to small- pebble size which is less than three centimeters in diameter. Most of the tallest volcanoes are composite volcanoes, which ...
- 6159: Acid Rain
- ... time, even if we were to stop today we would have the problem for years to come because of the build up in the soil. Let's hope we can do something. BIBLIOGRAPHY Penguin Publishing House, 1987 , Pearce Fred Acid Rain. What is it and what is it doing to us? New York Publishers, 1989, William Stone Acid Rain. Fiend or Foe? Lucent books, Inc. 1990, Steward Gail Acid Rain.
- 6160: The Serious Problem of Acid Rain
- ... it rains on cities too, eating away stone monuments and concrete structures, and corroding the pipes which channel the water away to the lakes adding more pollutants to lakes and streams. Exterior paints, such as house and automobile paints have their lives reduced due to the pollution in the atmosphere which speeds up the corrosion process. In some communities the drinking water is laced with toxic metals freed from metal pipes ...
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