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- 951: Black Holes
- ... primordial black holes, there may still be some of them, evaporating at this very moment. The first scientists to really take an in depth look at black holes and the collapsing of stars, were professor Robert Oppenheimer and his student, Hartland Snyder, in the early nineteen hundreds. They concluded on the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity that if the speed of light was the utmost speed of any object ...
- 952: Weather Forecasting
- ... is 100% accurate. One question that I asked myself was "when was the first weather forecasting ever done?", I found out that in 1863 in Britain there was a united forecasting system headed by Captain Robert Fitzroy. Captain Fitzroy would send ships around Britain to warn people of storms and such. However, he was often wrong and criticized and therefor committed suicide. Since then there have been many other services, but ...
- 953: Smuggling of Nuclear Material
- ... any successful attempts the government, both Russia and the U.S have decline to answer. If left unchecked it may even escalate to the complex level of drug smuggling. Work Cited List Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norriss, Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yelsin, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. John Deutch, ³The Threat of Nuclear Diversion Statement for Record,² CIA, March 20, 1996. Alexei Lebedev, in ³Russian Weapons Plutonium ...
- 954: Endangered Species Study: Jaguars
- ... be outlawed is--poaching. Poaching is not right, these animals that are being killed have no right to be killed. Jaguars have done rarely anything to hurt mankind or any of mankinds' environment. BIBLIOGRAPHY McClung, Robert M. Vanishing Wildlife of Latin America. New York: William and Morrow, 1981 Compton's NewMedia Encyclopedia Jaguar. Compton's NewMedia Inc., 1992,1994
- 955: Global Economy and the Environment
- ... international trade agreement, a MNC is most likely going to shift their production to a lesser developed country. This is because LDCUs are a good target for cheap labor and low start-up costs. In Robert PastorUs essay, he mentions the term maquiladoras; Rcheaper labor that allows them (Mexicans) to assemble parts, import from the U.S. and then reexport the assembled productsS. In places such as the maquiladoras, safety standards ...
- 956: Acid Rain
- ... with pH of 4.5 is a hundred times more acidic than normal rain. In parts of the country, rain with pH levels of 4.5 to 5.0 is common. An English scientist named Robert Angus Smith discovered acid rain in 1872, but no other scientist continued this study. Then in 1961 the Sweden wanted to know why the fish in their lakes were dying. Svante Odιn discovered that the ...
- 957: Tin
- ... electric work. Battery contacts in the Black and Decker snake lights are also tin plated. A compound tin salt is used to spray onto glass windows to produce electrically conductive coating for panel lighting and frost free windshields for cars. One last use for tin is in the making of glass windows that are made by floating molten glass on molten tin. This produces a flat piece of glass to be ...
- 958: The Orgins of Atomic Theory
- ... science takes. Works Cited Barnes, Jonathan. The Presocratic Philosophers. Routledge, New York, NY, 1989. Pages 217-222, 342-377, 594. Cahn, Steven M. Classics of Western Philosophy. Hacket, Indianapolis, IN, 1977. Pages 115-129. Brumbaug, Robert S. The Philosophers of Greece. SUNY, Albany, NY, 1981. Pages 11-17, 78-92.
- 959: The Role Catalysts In Chemical Reactions, Their Importance In Industry, Problems and New Developments
- The Role Catalysts In Chemical Reactions, Their Importance In Industry, Problems and New Developments OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS EXAMINATION BOARD. General Certificate Examination - Advanced Level Chemistry (Salters') - Paper 3 mock. ROBERT TAYLOR U6JW. A Catalyst is a substance that alters the rate of a reaction. The catalyst remains unchanged at the end of the reaction. The process is called catalysis. In this report I aim going ...
- 960: The Cause and Effects of Acid Mine Drainage
- ... Clean Stream Initiative was established by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and is trying to clean up acid drainage by combining the efforts of citizen groups, corporations and government agencies. President of the OSM, Robert Uram said, "Private organizations both grassroots and national have joined, in addition to government programs at the federal, state, and local levels." "The most effective way to control acid generation is to prevent its initiation ...
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