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Term Papers on Science
Glass
Number of words: 1557 - Number of pages: 6.... by modifying the composition, production techniques or both. represents a combination of properties that can not be separated, such as mechanical, chemical, optical and thermal properties. is an intriguing substance in the way that the moment you change the percentage of one of its components, the itself is different. (Education Dep. Properties: Chemical). Often, it can even be classified as a different type of . Commercial es are found in six basic categories, soda-lime , lead , borosilicate , aluminum silicate , ninety-six percent and fused silic .....
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Autism 2
Number of words: 1079 - Number of pages: 4.... generation to generation. This indicates the possibility that autism is genetically related. However, no gene has been found.
Every person with autism is different and there is no set type or typical person with autism. This is because autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning that symptoms and characteristics of the disorder can present themselves in a variety of ways, from mild to severe. Usually children with autism have deficiencies in both verbal and non-verbal communication. Their language develops slowly or not at all and they have very short attention s .....
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El Nino
Number of words: 380 - Number of pages: 2.... in which the temperature decreases
rapidly with depth.
This depression of the thermocline has great effects on the worlds fishing
industry. The cutting of nutrient rich therocline water reduces the growth
of algae, which in trun, collapses the food chain. Thus, leaving our
worlds subsistence and commercial fishermen with out food and money.
With the already descendeing food chain on our earth, the warming water
also effects the atmosphere, resulting in more extreme temperatures, more
rain, and more drought periods, costing more money to our already debted
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The Problems With Acid Rain
Number of words: 1834 - Number of pages: 7.... 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 inspectors were noticing that many of the lakes were begin .....
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Apollo 4
Number of words: 1112 - Number of pages: 5.... cuts in the cable was a length
of aluminum tubing, which took a ninety-degree turn. There were hundreds of
these turns in the whole capsule. The aluminum tubing carried a glycol cooling
fluid, which is not flammable, but when exposed to air it turns to flammable
fumes. The capsule was filled with pure oxygen in an effort to allow the
astronauts to work more efficiently. It also turns normally not so flammable
items to highly flammable items. Raschel netting that was highly flammable in
the pure oxygen environment was near the exposed section of the wires.
A .....
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Humpback Whales
Number of words: 1252 - Number of pages: 5.... navel. These grooves allow their throat to expand during the huge intake of water during filter feeding. They have small, round bumps on the front of the head edging the jaws.
Humpbacks have huge, mottled white flippers with rough edges that are up to one-third of its body length; these are the largest flippers of any whale. The humpback's genus, Megaptera, means "huge-wings," referring to its flippers. The flippers may have barnacles growing on them.
The deeply-notched flukes are up to 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. Humpbacks have a small dorsal fin toward the f .....
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Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid Fever)
Number of words: 336 - Number of pages: 2.... to think clearly. The symptoms take about two weeks to go away if they don\'t lead to death.
This bacterial pathogen is considered extremely dangerous and is probobly armed. Salmonella Typhi has been on the loose for many years and was cuased a lot of havoc and done a lot of damage over the years.
Typhoid fever affects 17 million people worldwide every year, with approximately 600,000 deaths.
To protect yourself from typhoid fever, aviod risky food and drinks and get vaccinated aginst typhoid fever, and wash your hands carefully a lot to make sure you .....
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Greenpeace
Number of words: 771 - Number of pages: 3.... in bureaucracy, and is that something that we should respect. Taking on
a action for Greenpeace sometimes means that you have to break the law or at
least bend it a little. In USA where they protested against some factories
which deliberately lead their toxic waste to lakes nearby, Greenpeace sealed the
pipes, from which the toxic waste was coming from and furtermore the activists
refused to leave. A up-to-date example could be Mururoa, where the French
government held a series of underground nuclear tests and banned all nearby
sailing activities meanwhile. Gree .....
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