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D4est5- or 7-Step Method In the 5-step method which some students are asked to provide and typical of beginning science classes, we...
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probably the Honda fit or the Hyundai elentra, in terms of overall economy (price, maintenance, gas milage etc) Volkswagen! This...
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Georg Simon Ohm died on July 6, 1854 at the age of 65.
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A fungus' purpose is to decompose and recycle nutrients back into soil. It can also cometimes be predatory or work in a symbiotic...
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Technology is the application of science into real life. The relation can be expressed using UML by generalization this way: ...
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Is this a next in the sequence thing? Any reason why the obvious 24 has been ignored? +5 -2
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Allele is word used by Mendel for counter parts of an elementon later called factor and renamed as gene e.g. T and t are alleles...
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The main organ would be the Heart. Other major organs are the veins and arteries. Lungs are also a part of the blood circulatory...
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Microscopes The first compound microscope was made in 1590 in The Netherlands. Hans Lippershey, Sacharias Jansen, and Hans...
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California will break off and sink into the ocean because its under sea level and professionals have said this will in the time...
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Earth science affects you because it is the planet you live on every day. People need to know how the world they live on works.
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A waterspout can transition from water to land but becomes a tornado as long as it is touching land; if it is not touching the...
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The scientific method in which biological problems are solved is termed as biological method.It comprises the steps a biologist...
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The biological hierarchy refers to the different levels of classification from domain to species (eight levels). The three...
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Came up with the quantum theory, a physical theory that certain properties occur only in discrete amounts (quanta)
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Transpiration is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves,...
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Newton's Law of Gravity is not wrong, in macroscopic scale and at relatively low speed, it predicts the movement of objects...
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a contact force
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The unit, Farad, is Coloumb / Volt, so the dimensions are charge / voltage.To reduce to base SI units:Coloumb is ampere x...
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Percy Dawson, a professor at University of Southern California back in the early 1900's. He published the first textbook...
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Joseph Priestley and possibly Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
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Yes, It is developed by learning, normally from your parents and/or your guardians
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it exploded in 1973 answer -->I think it reentered earth atmosphere in 1979 and disintegrated.
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lawrencium is the element,Actually, it's curium, named after Marie Curie
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It effects nuclear material
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It was found near the Badlands in Drumheller.
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Leeuwenhoek was the first one to look at a cell in a microscope, so he was the first one to see cells.
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Simple scrapes, cuts and internal injuries would slowly build and ravage our body both from the inside-out and the other way...
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Marie's husband was named Pierre Curie. He was also a scientist like Marie. One night, Pierre was walking home from the...
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air is made of 19.98 percent oxygen 79 percent nitrogen and 2 percent carbon
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Hello.. I am an engineering student and during the past few days i was searching on the net to clarify my doubts on "motors".So...
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It isn't. Answer --> It is an example of phase change and thus a physical change. Not a chemical change
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Many places, including Target, WalMart, Kmart, Walgreens, even some larger hardware outlets. Built in different physical sizes...
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Because of Gravity pulls it down lol # WISH THERE WERE NO
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it breaks it down (weathering) and carries it away (erosion) with water, ice, and wind.
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Dmitri Ivanovic Mendeleev
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for the time, they were luxurious indeed. however, by our standards, they were very dirty, smelly, and quite uncomfortable. if...
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Radon (element #86) was discovered in 1900. Francium (#87) was discovered in 1939. Francium is the second rarest naturally...
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she is the sister of Louis pasteur who created pasteurization, the rabies vaccine, and lots of other things
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Scientific name consist of genus (generic name) and species (specific name). Some also contain sub-specific name. The naming...
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No, the name radium is derived from the Latin language word radius, equivalent to radiation.
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The name dubnium is derived from the name of the Russian town Dubna (where is the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)).
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I don't know about April 14 - HOWEVER -- -When the Soil Erosion Service was established as part of the United States Department...
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he discovered phosphorus
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Electricity was not 'invented' : its characteristics and uses have been known about and developed over hundreds of years. Static...
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detergent itself: practically nothing. however many commercial detergent blends include phosphates: these can fertilize algae...
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Convectional currents would be a topic in fluid flows
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If the objects are under free fall near the surface of the Earth, then they are under uniform acceleration due to gravity whose...
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Tycho Brahe was born in Scania. When he was born Scania was part of Denmark, so he was Danish. Presently, though, Scania is...
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An alchemist was boiling a very large vat of urine to try to obtain something he needed for an experiment (probably making the...
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When you boil water, you remove any impurities in the water. The impunities add a slight flavoring to the water.
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Olympus mons- on the moon- lacks water which makes it a better shield volcano. so these lack water.
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Alexander Fleming was a scientist, born near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland, on 6 August 1881. He was educated at St Mary's...
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Mors is the general term. Obitus is for death from old age. Decessus or Excessus are other ones.
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The Periodic TableDmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table according to atomic mass in 1869. Others before Mendeleev had...
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In 1897 J.J.Thomson conducted an experiment in which he took a discharge tube with very less gas molecules in it.When he...
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The greenhouse effect keeps the earth warm by preventing all the sun's heat escaping back out into space. Carbon dioxide is one...
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The sun is the source of heat and light for plant-life.
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1. Food & safe drinking water; whether they were explorers on land or sea.2. Disease: mostly cholera & dysentery which is...
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Air is made up of different gasses, so you can't have a formula for air. Gasses like carbon dioxide can have formulas, but just...
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My Russian dictionary has a diaresis over the e - Потёмкин - and being of the Soviet era, gives the translation as "the...
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"oleo" giving the means as oil. Hence, oleo chemistry is the study of vegetable oils and animal oils and fats.
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Light is emitted when an electron drops from the orbit of an excited state, into its natural state. The quantum of light emitted...
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Well obviously the person that was invented in kinematics is the massless, omniscient observer that calmly puts all the objects...
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You can drink it, it's sterile, and as long as it's fresh, and you don't have any UTIs bacteria free. It is, for the most part...
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There are literally thousands of famous scientists who have all made very important contributions to the field of science. All...
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Used for the production of glucose which will serve as a energy storage compound in the body
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The halogen lamp http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa122999a.htm Felt-tip pens. Wilson Greatbatch invented the...
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See Related Links See the Related Links for "Wikipedia: Rubellla history" to the bottom for the answer. actually a scottish...
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Non-American Chemists The most infamous of all foreign chemists is Bruno Tesch, sole owner of the firm of Tesch und Stabenow....
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One of his reasons for believing in god is that he knows (or thinks) that God is perfect. Since perfection includes existence, he...
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he invented the spectro scope and discovered other materials
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It wasn't until telescopes that people realized that the band of light reaching across the sky, called the Milky Way since...
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The first known cases of smallpox go back to 1350 BC and the disease has been known for a very long time. Dr. Campbell identified...
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The Zygomaticus (Zygomatic Bone) Is incontrol of you cheekbones. Which articulates with the Frontal, Maxilla, Sphenoid, and...
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He reacted Potassium and Beryllium Chloride to isolate Beryllium.
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AnswerHi Jackie,I received this article just a few days ago from a fellow member of a Yahoo site. Interesting, and goes well with...
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In the 5th cent. B.C. the Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus proposed that matter was made up of tiny, indivisible...
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Barbara Robinette Moss (Barbara Ellen Moss) was born on December 16, 1954 at the Norrell Clinic in Pell City Alabama. Sadly she...
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Going into a situation where you are risking your life through death.
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Citing the following passage, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributes the phrase, "Man is a social animal," to Baruch Spinoza:...
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when plates diverge, a rift valley is formed and there's a fissure where magma can rise up to form submarine volcanoes on the rift
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The mass of an adult human brain is approximately 1300 to 1400 grams (2.87 to 3.1 pounds). A newborn human brain is about 350 to...
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The Nobel prize winner who tried to extract gold from sea water to pay Germany's post WW1 debts was the chemist Fritz Haber. His...
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