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- 5441: Plants in TKM
- ... reach the size of a bush in warm, dry climates (Garden Geranium 1). Again, the bright colored flowers make any bouquet of flowers complete. It is very hard to get any Geraniums to grow in short and cold growing seasons, like in the Pacific Northwest. It was very easy to grow and pick the beautiful flowers in the south. Wisteria is in the legume family of woody, climbing plants. The best ...
- 5442: The Acid Rain Effects On Living Things
- ... of these reactions. Rainwater, snow, fog, and other forms of precipitation containing these mild solutions of sulfuric and nitric acids fall to the ground as acid rain. Years ago, when smokestacks were only a few stories tall, pollution from the smokestacks usually stayed near the ground and settled on the land nearby. This only caused unhealthy conditions for plants and animals near the smokestacks. To reduce this pollution, the government passed ...
- 5443: Clean Coal Technologies
- ... existing power plants exceeding emissions restrictions. Designed to remove sulfur and nitrogen after the coal has been burned, they are typically installed on the stacks of power plants In most cases, these retrofit systems offer short-term, cost effective, remedies for severe environmental problems. ("Clean Coal" 1) The forth stage Conversion technologies. For more than half a century, scientists have tried a variety of approaches to convert coal to synthetic oil ...
- 5444: Acid Rain
- ... rain plus dry deposited acid is called acid deposition. The chemical reactions that change air pollution to acid rain can take from several hours to several days. Years ago, when smokestacks were only a few stories high, pollution from smokestacks usually stayed near the ground and settled on land nearby. This caused unhealthy conditions for plants and animals near the smokestacks. To reduce this pollution, the government passed a law permitting ...
- 5445: Glass
- ... is the most expensive of all glasses. Fused silica glass has the highest resistance to heat shock. It also has the highest permissible operating temperature. It can withstand temperatures of twelve hundred degrees Celsius for short periods and temperatures nine hundred degrees Celsius for long periods of time. Since it is a fact that the more silica a glass contains, the lower its thermal expansion rate will be and the higher ...
- 5446: How Toxic Waste Affects Canadas Natural Environment
- ... washed up along the Atlantic coast and in one of the Great Lakes. Mutated and disfigured fish as well as other water animals have washed up dead or been caught by fishermen. The list of stories goes on, and it's still growing. Canada and the USA have created laws and regulations to try to stop the illegal dumping of toxic wastes and the destruction of our environment. The US has ...
- 5447: Polymers
- ... named the product celluloid. The prime virtue of polymers is a high strength-to-weight ratio. Industrial-strength polymers surpass titanium in tensile strength. To add strength and improve flexibility, polymers are sometimes fortified with short-fiber additives, mostly fiberglass. This is known as a polymer composite. One particular polymer has three times the strength of tempered steel and is being used in bullet proof vests. Another composite will be used ...
- 5448: Aristotle - Happyness
- ... with proper excellence and virtue, man is able to reach a desirable end. Virtue, then deals with those feelings and actions in which it is wrong to go too far and wrong to fall too short but in which hitting the mean is praiseworthy and good . it is a habit or acquired ability to chose .what is moderate or what hits the mean as determined by reason.(Aristotle, 462) Attaining a ...
- 5449: The Destruction of Red Tides
- The Destruction of Red Tides Red tides also known as harmful algal blooms, HAB for short, are a toxic, single celled algae called photoplankton. This organism produces a toxin that affects the central nervous system of fish so that they are paralyzed and can't breathe. As a result, red tide ...
- 5450: The Formation of Rocky Shores
- ... and crabs. Low tide presents many changes for rocky shore creatures that live in the intertidal zone. The upper part of this area is only in the water during extreme high tides and only for short periods of time. When low tide comes they are left exposed to the elements. The organisms that live in the upper area of the intertidal zone must have special ways of avoiding desiccation, or drying ...
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