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Term Papers on Science
Cancer 4
Number of words: 1512 - Number of pages: 6.... tumors, or abnormal tissue, grow more rapidly than benign tissue and they invade normal tissue. Benign tissue is structured similar to normal tissue while malignant tissue is abnormal and has an unstructured appearance. Of greater importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any living tissue that is #1 distinguishable as abnormal living tissue.
After a cancer forms, it can .....
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Gallium
Number of words: 487 - Number of pages: 2.... the Earth's surface, gallium does not occor
free or concentrated in independant minerals, except for gallite. It is
extracted as a by-product from zinc blende, iron pyrites, bauxite, and
germanite.
Silvery white and soft enough to be cut with a knife, gallium takes on a
bluish tinge because of superficial oxidation. Unusual for its low melting
point ( about 30 degrees C, 86 degrees F ), gallium also expands upon
solidification and supercools readily, remaining a liquid at temperatures as
low as 0 degrees C ( 32 degrees F ).
Gallium has the longest usefull li .....
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Formation Of Protocells
Number of words: 797 - Number of pages: 3.... radioactive isotope decays UV light: there were no protective ozone layer and thus immense heat. Electrical discharge from the never ending lightning caused chemical reactions to occur very often and there was also another source of heat from the young earth crust which was volcanically active.
For most chemical reactions to take place, a spark of electricity is needed, and this was provided by the lightning in the atmosphere. Amino acids basically consist of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon. Due to all of the lightning chemical reactions took place betw .....
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Experiment To See If Soaking A Golf Ball Affects Its Distance
Number of words: 1434 - Number of pages: 6.... sometimes flew over 300
yards and was durable - until it got wet. Then it would split open. The
Gutta percha was introduced in 1850 and was made of a rubberlike sap from
the Malaysian sapdilla tree. The material was heated to soften it and then
hand-formed into a solid, one piece ball.Gutta percha was black, so the
early balls were painted white. Easier to make, less expensive, and more
durable, the gutta revolutionized golf. When golfers discovered that balls
and nicks flew longer and straighter then new ones, manufactures began to
give them a textured, eve .....
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Chromosome Probes At The University Of Toronto
Number of words: 726 - Number of pages: 3.... difficult to do, are restricted to women
over 35 and those who have a family history of chromosomal abnormalities.
Prenatal tests using Willard's probes would be much simpler and faster to
perform and could be available to all pregnant women who wish to take
advantage of the technology.
Current prenatal testing involves growing fetal cells in vitro and
examining them, over one or two months, to see if there are two copies of a
particular chromosome, which is normal, or one or three, which is abnormal.
A test using Willard's probes would require only a .....
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Acid Rain 7
Number of words: 1863 - Number of pages: 7.... when scientists in Sweden and Norway first believed that acidic rain may be causing great ecological damage to the planet. The problem was that by the time that the scientist found the problem it was already very large. Detecting an acid lake is often quite difficult. A lake does not become acid over night. It happens over a period of many years, some times decades. The changes are usually to gradual for them to be noticed early. At the beginning of the 20th century most rivers/lakes like the river Tovdal in Norway had not yet begun to die. However by 1926 local .....
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Superconductivity
Number of words: 1633 - Number of pages: 6.... Electrons occupy energy
states. Each level requires a certain amount of energy. For an electron to move
to a higher level, it will require the right amount of energy. Electrons can
move between different levels and between different materials but to do that,
they require the right amount of energy and an "empty" slot in the band they
enter. The metallic conductors have a lot of these slots and this is where the
free electrons will head when voltage (energy) is applied. A simpler way to look
at this is to think of atoms aligned in a straight line (wire). if we ad .....
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Lab Report Of The Cells
Number of words: 491 - Number of pages: 2.... the beginning of cell division and reappear at the end. Then you have the Cytoplasm. This is the watery material lying within the cell between the cell membrane and the nucleus. The Cytoplasm also contains organelles, which have specific functions in the cell metabolism. Then there are the Golgi Bodies, which serve as processing, packaging, and storage for the cell. These organelles package and ship things out. Another parts of the cell, a very important one in fact, are the Lysosomes. These organelles are used to break things down and contain enzymes.
First we p .....
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