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- 10541: Rubidium
- ... 8 electrons (2) 8 electrons (5) 1 electron (3) 18 electrons Uses Rubidium Chloride id the source of most rubidium metal. The liquid form makes it a good substance to transfer heat because of its high heat transfer coefficient. When rubidium gas is placed ion a sealed glass cell along with an inert gas, it becomes a rubidium-gas cell clock. Because of the consistent and accurate vibrations of its atoms ...
- 10542: The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
- ... be no variance at all. Unfortunately, the Congress passed a bill reducing the production of CFC's based on a NASA document. This document only told half of the truth. It said that chlorine was high in an area. What it didn't say was that a couple of days before and after, the levels returned to normal. Now there is a ban on CFC's that will affect many across ...
- 10543: The Peregrine Falcon
- ... his mate. Therefore, a typical tiercel weighs only one and one-half pounds. His body is two inches shorter and his wings are four inches shorter than the female. A peregrine's feathers make its high-speed flight possible. The feathers lie close to its streamlined body. Like all birds, peregrines lose their feathers and grow new ones. This process is called molting. A peregrine's molt lasts from April to ...
- 10544: Solving the Mystery of the Romanovs
- ... 100 nucleotides long. This region contains signals that control the replication of the chromosome and the transcription of the mitochondria genes. This DNA sequence accumulates mutations ten times the rate of the nuclear DNA. This high mutation rate results in unique patters of single nucleotide polymorphisms, which are inhereited through generations. Because of the location of the polymorphisms in the cells cytoplasm, during fertilization, mitochondria are only passed on from the ...
- 10545: Acid Rain
- ... States, Canada, and many countries of Eastern and Western Europe including Japan. The consequences of the acid precipitation have been most apparent in Norway, Sweden, and Canada, however, due to tall smokestacks many pollutants rise high into the atmosphere where air currents can pick them up and carry them as far as into an entirely different country. This cross-border issue is causing global concerns as it is no longer simply ...
- 10546: The Creation of the Universe
- ... accounting for cosmic origins.2 In the scientific community there is a well known and accepted theory known as the "Big Bang Theory". Most people know of this theory because they were taught it in school. Yet it usually contradicted what their parents and pastors taught them in church. As a result, the Big Bang Theory was generally discarded as something that intellectual minds which cannot exist upon the true faith ...
- 10547: Devastation of the Rain Forests
- ... Endesa, Arboriente and PICOP ignore the blockades of the FPA, "Forest Peoples' Alliance", and the perpetual pleas of the Scientist's who predict, "tropical species are disappearing at a rate that could conceivably reach as high as 150 species a day by the year 2020" Landry, (5). Unfortunately this battle is about to economics versus environment, and so far the environment is losing the war. Chico Mendes' death finally brought the ...
- 10548: The Search for Black Holes: Both As A Concept And An Understanding
- ... the star is passed on into the event horizon the light that the star ordinarily gives off builds inside the ergosphere of the black hole but doesnt escape. At this exact point in time, high amounts of radiation are given off, and with the proper equipment, this radiation can be detected and seen as an image of emptiness or as preferred, a black hole. Through this technique astronomers now believe ...
- 10549: The Roswell Incident
- ... world have a right to know the truth about this issue and that it is time to put an end to the controversy surrounding it. THE ROSWELL INCIDENT FILM ------------------------- This film was taken by a high security government photographer, in the summer of 1947, when the most thoroughly documented and witnessed crash of a flying saucer occurred in a remote desert of New Mexico. (see the book, The Truth about the ...
- 10550: The Future of NASA
- ... not be so far advanced that people will be able to beam around the Universe or travel through time. However, unless something goes terribly wrong with the world, it is expected to advance tremendously. New, high-tech designs for rockets will make them more environmentally safe. Rockets will also be recycled and reused. Systems retrieving parts of rockets that are today, left behind in space, will be created. Astronauts will be ...
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