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D4estRachel Carson was buried in in Ames, Iowa in the family plot. By Sally L.'s Class
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John Dalton's most important theory, developed in 1803, was that matter is composed of atoms of differing weights that combine in...
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The French chemist credited with creating the germ theory and the process called Pasteurization for food preservation.
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Answerthey were in astate of Pangaea so they were very spread out due to simalr climate
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From the Greek term, of Kryptons meaning "hidden"
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Hypatia was the greatest female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of antiquity. While she didn't contribute much in the...
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temperature and pH
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rabies has been known since 3000 B.C. The first written record of rabies is in the Codex of Eshnunna
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There are two reasons why we can see a plane in the air before we hear it. The first reason is the fact that light moves faster...
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"these studies had revealed that humans have the potential to withstand 46 G and a force of 10,000 pounds for a quarter of a...
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They lived in early Europe, as forests began to come about and the cold weather was leaving. (40,000-10,000 years ago).
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Leucippus (450?-370? BC), was a Greek philosopher. He proposed the atomic theory of matter, that all matter is constituted of...
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The substance/substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants. Chemical reactions are usually...
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Non-scientists might think that changing a scientific theory means it was wrong. The theory may or may not have been wrong....
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No. Sucrose has a relative sweetness of 1.0, while Splenda (Sucralose) of the same quantity is about 600 times...
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Its believed to be in Scotland, around 1997. So many Scientists all around the world experimented at different times, in...
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Aaron Jonesps: Grant's a cheater
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Intelligent design in just another name for Creation. Believers in creationism don't want to use the word creation because it...
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It comes from the latin word thousand (mille), used by Romans to describe a distance of one thousand paces. One pace is made of 2...
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1. Of or relating to the Hellenists.2. Of or relating to postclassical Greek history and culture from the death of Alexander the...
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because she was one of the first women to have an offcial scientific postian
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first instrument is a crab shell and was hit with a bird beak
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the atmosphere carries many things we need. If it didnt exist we could not even breath.
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If you don't know the answer to this question, then you obviously are not qualified to perform an audit (at least not a GAAP /...
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Typical gram-positive bacteria are staphylococci; typical gram-negative bacteria are bacilli.
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the Colorado river eroded the land to make the grand canyon
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The general consensus among historians is that gunpowder was invented in China in the 9th century. During the 10th century, the...
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Brownian movement is the random shaky movement of very small particles suspended in a gas or a liquid, caused by them being hit...
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NKC is used in Missouri to designate the city North Kansas City. A suburb of Kansas City MO
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He had two children called Diana and Malcolm.
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Electricity does pollution in many ways. It begins pollution at the very beginning when produced in thermal power...
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A ball will bounce higher rebounding from a hard surface like tile that from a carpet.
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I would have to say yes. People say that dinosaurs were dead millions of years before Adam was made. I say there are a couple of...
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A mutation.
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the different between emitting x-rays spontaneously and non-spontaneously is that spontaneously means sending out and...
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If by air you mean oxygen, it is simply "O." There are certainly more complicated answers considering the presence of other...
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I believe that sulfur is found in the earth. I live in Florida and most everyone has city water, but if someone has a well, and...
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The common answer is steel.It is an alloy of iron and carbon.
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The mechanism is not yet fully understood, but it is believed by most geologists that convection of magma within the mantle...
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Archimedes was taught by many and influenced by many too, but his school teachers made quite a big impact on his intellegence and...
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It was named after the famous scientist Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953) because he was the one who made the discovery that our...
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Gasoline, Kerosene, diesel fuel and Jet fuel. Hope this helps. Mike
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Its really anything that can be broken down by nature, food, tree stumps, some items like plastic and metal are not degradable.
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According to wikipedia's article on the composite of gasses which we breathe every day (Air): It contains roughly (by molar...
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Bamboo grows very fast, it will grow several centimeters in a day.
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The most famous person forced to recant, when his theories were contrary to Church doctrine, was Galileo. Galileo observed the...
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The Bohm-Jacopini proof describes how to construct a structured flow chart from an arbitrary chart, using the bits in an extra...
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Pressure is a force that exists in nature. No one invented it.
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A scientist is the one who studies about science. A scientist is also the one who experiments things. A scientist is also one...
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John Dalton (1766 1844) was a British chemist and physicist, and is best known for his work on gasses and the atomic theory. ...
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Scientists use a network of satellites called the global positioning system to measure the rate of tectonic plate movement
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Sorry..Not available. Official Time Table Can Be Found At " www.kseeb.org " When It Is released. Keep Checking the website.
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Compare how earth rotates with how it revoles
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he invented nothing he was a physics and chemist
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Because of the tilt
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surface waves
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dna and rna. sperm and eggs
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zoophilia
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transverse
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natural occurrences were a result of actions of the gods. The black cat crossing one's path denotes bad luck.
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Cell is the most basic structural of the body.Cell is the building block of the life. all the living organism are made of one or...
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The name of the chemical element plutonium is derived from the name of the dwarf planet Pluto. And the name of the planet is...
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DNA testing started in 1974 bye Gregory Nickenshig after he discovered the theory of chicken pocks and also small pocks.
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a steam boat.
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1775 latitude
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Because it's safer than an open flame.
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It was Lewis Nixon who invented the very first sonar-type listening device in 1906. He was seeking a way of detecting icebergs....
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Earliest use of fireworks was by the Chinese 2,000 years ago. Possibly a tall tale but it is said that a Chinese cook spilled...
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i have absolutly no idea
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It is after or before
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Flat.
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Sally RideDr. Sally Kristen Ride, on board the space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission on June 18, 1983. She was born...
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Newton's hypothesis included the 3 laws of motion. The first law states that: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to...
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Helen Sharman was the first English WOMAN in space. She went up in Soyuz 12 on 18th May 1991 to visit the International Space...
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Money, it's all about the funding.
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The skeleton. Tooth enamel - the hardest substance the body makes.
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An electron cloud is a visual model of the most probable locations of electrons in an atom. The cloud is denser where you will...
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Thomas Edison was an US inventor & businessman, he develop many devices including phonograph and light bulb and he was one of...
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in mythology
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Chinas del ow
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In the 1930's Kodachrome was invented by Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes, both professional musicians ( "Kodachrome was...
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tattooing is an ancient art form that started thousands of years ago in Egypt
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In 1614, John Napier published his invention of logarithms.
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Yes, you just let the water evaporate.
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Bratsk (russia) = 170 cubic kilometers
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he called them molecules
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