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- 1011: Ecommerce
- ... around for info. Businesses also focus on other companies to sell their products. General Electric sold machine and appliance parts using a new business to business technology called "extranet". GE used its successful "extranet" to roll in 1996 online sales of one billion dollars. Another very successful type of business on the net is the coming of services backed by research, such as discount stock trading, including e.Schwab and a ...
- 1012: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... software industry began with second-generation computers. Though transistors were clearly an improvement over the vacuum tube, they still generated a great deal of heat, which damaged the computer's sensitive internal parts. The quartz rock eliminated this problem. Jack Kilby, an engineer with Texas Instruments, developed the integrated circuit (IC) in 1958. The IC combined three electronic components onto a small silicon disc, which was made from quartz. Scientists later ...
- 1013: Prescribed Burning
- ... in his insightful book, Fire in America, ". . . to remove fire abruptly may be as serious a cultural and ecological event as to introduce it suddenly." Today we are capable of doing both efficiently. On a roll On the other hand, consider the good news: The Forest Service's 13-state southern region is tops in the nation for intentionally torching its forests. According to Marc Rounsville, prescribed-fire specialist headquartered in ...
- 1014: Polio
- ... life in cities, where the combination of sounds from traffic and building construction echoes among high-rise buildings, creating a constant din. In addition, the intense volume at which some popular music, especially heavy metal rock music, is played has resulted in the loss of some or all of the hearing of a few musicians and members of their audiences. There is some evidence that extreme levels of noise can produce ...
- 1015: Geoloy Of Mars
- ... dust storm, and these fast- moving particles erode structures with a sand-blasting effect " (Grolier, 1992). Therefore, the surface is basically plain-like and covered with large craters. There are also some areas where the rock is " jumbled." The poles of Mars are iced over and the temperature is about 160 - 170 degrees K. Mars also has its share of volcanoes. Most of these volcanoes are shield volcanoes. The surface is ...
- 1016: Gold And Its Uses
- ... and accurate measurement of the ore deposit. Construction begins following the lengthy process of receiving permits. As holes are drilled for blasting, samples of ore are examined to determine grade and metallurgical characteristics. The broken rock is marked by type for efficient processing. Based on its metallurgical makeup, a dispatcher directs truck operators to deliver the ore to the correct processing location. Low-grade ore is roughly broken into small chunks ...
- 1017: Lasers And Their Applications
- ... coherent laser light can transmit a much larger number of messages at a time than the current ordinary telephone systems. The military is one of the most vast areas in which lasers play a key roll. Lasers are used in the military for guidance, defense and detection. Innovations such as a laser guidance unit is used to locate or "paint" a target and provide guidance information to a missile or attack ...
- 1018: Large Mouth Bass
- ... tool. Also, because they have no need for tools, because there prey swims all around them. People may not know this but bass do thermoregulate. It is not like an iguana, laying on a hot rock, but instead like a fish. The bass uses the water to thermoregulate. Being a fish it lives in the water, and if it goes into the sun it will dry out and die. The fish ...
- 1019: Hard Water
- ... the most popular POU technologies is water softening. Hard water is found throughout the world and in about 85% of Canada, according to the geological survey. Hard water areas exist where water has access to rock that contains calcium, magnesium, or a combination of both. According to the Water Council review, water is known to pick up some of everything that it touches, which is why it cleans so effectively. When ...
- 1020: Ground Water In Ontario
- ... water that it has become acceptable in the public, and politicians eye to let companies destroy it. Another of the large offenders is the mining industry. During the process of mining, large piles of crushed rock (mine tailings) are left behind after the valuable minerals have been removed. These mine tailings pose a major threat to groundwater supplies, because of the iron sulphide they contain. This iron sulphide, when mixed with ...
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