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Lava Flows Earth Crust
1,090 wordsVolcano: defined is a mountain or hill formed by the accumulation of materials erupted through one or more openings (called volcanic vents) in the earth's surface. The term volcano can also refer to the vents themselves. Most volcanoes have steep sides, but some can be gently sloping mountains or even flat tablelands, plateaus, or plains. The volcanoes above sea level are the best known, but the vast majority of the world's volcanoes lie beneath the sea, formed along the global oceanic ridge sys...
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Hydrogen Bomb Radiation Sickness
1,381 words... es as many cases of severe burns as there are burn beds in the whole of North America. A whole year's supply of blood for transfusion would be needed immediately, and of course is not available in storage nor could it be collected from volunteers in a few days. The injured who reached hospitals would have to be assayed for radioactivity, for the safety of the staff, which would cause a serious bottle-neck and delay in most hospitals. The result of this huge overload of cases is that most of ...
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Lava Flows Shield Volcanoes
1,961 wordsA volcano is a mountain or hill formed by the accumulation of materials erupted through one or more openings in the earth's surface. Most volcanoes have steep sides but sometimes they can slope down or even be flat. The volcanoes above sea level are the best known, but the most volcanoes lie beneath the sea, formed along the global oceanic ridge. Volcanic eruptions in populated regions are a significant threat to people, property, and agriculture. The danger is mostly from fast-moving, hot flows...
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Percent Of Americans Viet Cong
1,641 words... nd ammunition depots. These tunnels proved to be an excellent strategy for fighting in the Vietnamese jungles, as they were perfect for transporting men and supplies unnoticed through the jungle. Another strategy that the Vietnamese used to combat Americas military superiority was the laying of booby traps. Booby traps are defined as Concealed devices used to inflict casualties. Booby traps were an integral component of the war waged by the Vietnamese forces. Between January 1965, and June 1...
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Hydrogen Cyanide Chemical Weapon
605 wordsSo, what were the evidences, which supported the statement of the Judge Duffy, that there had been cyanide in the WTC bomb? The main question to be solved here lied in the following: what could be the consequences of mixing cyanide with nitric or sulfuric acids, both of which had been found in the bomb fragments? The FBI chemist Steven Burgmeister was the main person to be inquired about the results of the forensic chemical analysis. The thing is, that Burgmeister never made it clear, that he ha...
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World Trade Centre Background Checks
1,668 wordsTrends of the Security Profession The global situation of the past years with growing threat of terrorism and hostage holding is leading the leaders of the developed countries to the review of the security techniques and principles. The security profession is shifting from manual and human based approach to more technological and computer implementing one. The latest trend of the security development is introduction of computer-driven video surveillance and controlling, where the profession of t...
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World Trade Center U S Senate
1,551 wordsThe World Trade Center bombing in February, 1993, became a landmark in the new wave of terrorism, with civilians involved into the tragedy. The World Trade Center served as the target of the bombing. As a result of the terrorist act, six people were killed and more than thousand were injured. But taking into account the fact, that there used to be about 20, 000 people usually working at the Center simultaneously, and more than 80, 000 people visited or traveled along the complex, the consequence...
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Guy Fawkes November 5
1,726 wordsGunpowder History Of Gunpowder GUNPOWDER Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not used as much as more powerful explosives After Roger Bacon published his formula for gunpowder, Berthold Schwarz, a German m...
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Sulfuric Acid Nitric Acid
11,285 wordsPreparation And Mechanisms Of High And Low Preparation And Mechanisms Of High And Low Grade Explosives EXPLOSIVE FORMULAS Once again, persons reading this material should never attempt to produce any of the explosives described here. It is illegal and extremely dangerous to do so. Loss of life and limbs could easily result from a failed (or successful) attempt to produce any explosives or hazardous chemicals. These procedures are correct, however many of the methods given here are usually scaled...
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Nobel Prizes Gun Powder
1,531 wordsAlfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. (Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. Alfred's mother, Andrietta Ahlsell came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy th...
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