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Term Papers on Science
Atoms
Number of words: 520 - Number of pages: 2.... belief that atoms were round and hard.
This became the primary ambition for scientists after Dalton, to find out
the structure of an atom. In 1897, Joseph John Thomson discovered electrons.
Using a tube, magnets and charged plates, he sent ray particles through
various experiments changing the position of the charged plates. By
changing the plates, he discovered he could also change the point at which
the particles would hit a florescent screen at the end of the tube. He
decided that the ray was made up of particles with a negative charge. He
named these pa .....
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Life Of Octopus Dofleini
Number of words: 1449 - Number of pages: 6.... female. This
process occurs at depths from 20-100m and, lasts hours. With female octopuses
receiving spermatophore up to 1m long.
Female octopus seem to prefer larger males as mates and male octopus may
mate with more than one female in their life span, however the male octopus only
lives a few months after breeding, and the female will die shortly after the
eggs hatch.
Incubation can take from 150 days to seven or more months. The female
may produce any where from 20,000 to 100,000 eggs over a period of several days.
During incubation the female octopus .....
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Alcoholism 4
Number of words: 1374 - Number of pages: 5.... nerve transmissions and impulses to the central nervous system. This depresses mental, motor, and vital functions such as pulse rate, respiration, and blood pressure (Kestler 6). The body can absorb alcohol very quickly, approximately 20% goes directly into the blood stream from the stomach, the rest enters the body through the small intestine. Moments after alcohol enters the blood stream it reaches the Cerebral Cortex, the part of the brain responsible for judgement. The areas of the brain controlling caution and self control are effected first, so most .....
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Aids 2
Number of words: 744 - Number of pages: 3.... 10 years, but between infection with HIV, the onset for AIDS can vary greatly. The severity of the HIV related illness or illnesses will differ from person to person, according many factors but mostly to the overall health of the individual. The new advances in technology are helping postpone the advancement of the disease.
Lets start at the beginning. First, lets learn what AIDS is. AIDS is an acquired defect in your immune system. The passing of any bodily fluids could technically be used as a passage way for the virus. Once infected with HIV it will be .....
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Environmental Pollution
Number of words: 1277 - Number of pages: 5.... etc. Air pollution does
not leave the Earth it all gets trapped up in the atmosphere. This doesn't
bother most people, and they think that it will not harm them. People burn down
forests and people burn fossil fuels, and CFCs from aerosols. Every bit of this
harms our atmosphere. Factories and transportation depend on huge amounts of
fuel billions of tons of coal and oil are consumed around the world every year.
When these fuels burn they introduce smoke and other, less visible, by-products
into the atmosphere. Although wind and rain occasionally wash away the sm .....
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James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review
Number of words: 1915 - Number of pages: 7.... nature. Maurice Wilkins was a much calmer and quieter man that worked in
London at King's College. Wilkins was the initial person that excited Watson on
DNA research. Wilkins had an assistant, Rosalind Franklin (also known as Rosy).
Initially, Wilkins thought that Rosy was supposed to be his assistant in
researching the structure of DNA because of her expertise in crystallography;
however, Rosy did not want to be thought of as anybody's assistant and let her
feelings be known to others. Throughout the book there is a drama between
Wilkins and Rosy, a drama .....
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Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease
Number of words: 996 - Number of pages: 4.... is a time of emotional turmoil, mood swings, gloomy thoughts, and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and experimentation. Blackman (1996) observed that the "challenge is to identify depressive symptomatology which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Therefore, diagnosis should not lay only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. Unlike adult depression, symptoms of youth depression are often ma .....
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Pesticides
Number of words: 554 - Number of pages: 3.... in the form of products like Raid, and ant traps.
are dangerous to our environment, but in most cases they help more than they hurt. For example, it is estimated that the food supply would reduce by forty to fifty percent without the use of on our crops. The FDA, EPA, and the Department of Agriculture try to ensure that the use of is necessary to the extent in which they actually are used by performing studies and proposing bills and laws to Congress. There is no dispute that are harmful. The purpose of is to kill certain fungi, plants, and even anima .....
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