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Chlorofluorocarbons Cfcs Nitrogen Oxides
1,336 words
Dramatic loss of ozone in the lower stratosphere
over Antarctica was first noticed in the 1970 's
by a research group from the British Antarctic
Survey (BAS) who were monitoring the atmosphere
above Antarctica from a research station. The
Halley Research Station BAS research stations in
the Antarctic Rumor has it that when the first
measurements were taken in 1985, the drop in ozone
levels in the stratosphere were so dramatic that
at first the scientists thought their instruments
were defective....
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Sao Paulo Raw Sewage
735 words
Water is polluted when any harmful substance is
released into the water thus contaminating or
making it unsuitable for marine life to survive.
3) Pesticides 7) Litter Take a look at a picture
of a polluted river in Sao Caetano do Sul in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. -- -- Factory waste is made out of
a wide range of of impurities including poisonous
substances such as memory, cyanide and lead; and
corrosive, acidic or alkaline solutions. Toxic
wastes when discharged into rivers and seas
pollutes and poison...
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Effects Of Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide And Nitrogen
3,730 words
What is acid rain? Acid rain is the term for
pollution caused when sulfur and nitrogen dioxides
combine with atmospheric moisture. The term 'acid
rain' is slightly misleading, and would be more
accurate if deemed 'enhanced acid rain', as rain
occurs acidic naturally. Acidity is measured on
what is know as the pH scale. Fourteen is the most
basic, seven is the most neutral, and zero is the
most acidic. Pure rain has a pH level of 7, which
is exactly neutral. The acidity of rain is
determined by t...
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Catalytic Converter Carbon Monoxide
705 words
Introduction There are millions of cars on the
road in the United States, and each one is a
source of air pollution. Especially in large
cities, the amount of pollution cars produce
everyday is a lot. To solve those problems, many
laws have been enacted restricting the amount of
pollution that cars can produce. To make their
cars as pollution-free as possible, automakers
have made many refinements to car engines and fuel
systems and have developed the catalytic
converter. The catalytic converter...
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Piece Of Paper Oxygen Molecules
1,524 words
In 1839, a German scientist Christian Schonbein
was a professor of chemistry at the University of
Basel in Switzerland. In addition to his teaching
duties, he regularly performed secret experiments
in hopes of finding out which substances make up
the Earth's atmosphere. So Schonbein combined and
separated a number of liquids and gases. During
one of these experiments, Schonbein passed an
electric charge thought a glass beaker of water,
be noticed a very familiar odor. He first thought
it was the...
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White Blood Cells Parts Of The Body
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Circulatory System is the combined function of the
heart, blood, and blood vessels to transport
oxygen and nutrients to organs and tissues
throughout the body and carry away waste products.
The circulatory system increases the flow of blood
to meet increased energy demands during exercise
and regulates body temperature. Also, when foreign
substances or organisms invade the body, the
circulatory system quickly sends disease-fighting
elements of the immune system, such as white blood
cells and ant...
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Symptoms Of Gas Gangrene Symptoms Of Gas Oxygen
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Gas gangrene is a form of gangrene (tissue death)
usually caused by a bacterium known as clostridium
porringers, but many other bacteria can cause the
same effects. It is caused by an infection of
clostridium bacteria that, under low oxygen
conditions, produce toxins that cause the tissue
death and associated symptoms. Gas gangrene is
rare, with only 1, 000 to 3, 000 cases occurring
in the United States annually. Gas gangrene
usually occurs at the site of trauma or a recent
surgical wound. About...
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Al 2000 P Oxygen Molecules
2,956 words
Membrane Processes Human exposure to pollutants in
the air, water, soil and food-whether in the form
of short-term, high-level, or long-term, low-level
exposure-is a main cause of increased morbidity
and death. However, the disease burden
attributable to these exposures is not known with
any degree of certainty because levels of general
environmental pollution fluctuate greatly, methods
for analyzing the relationships are incompletely
developed, and the quality of available data is
generally poo...
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Amount Of Energy Oxygen Atoms
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Planning In this investigation I will be burning
alcohols to heat up a beaker of water. I will be
burning five alcohols, methanol, ethanol,
propanol, butanol and pentanol. The aim is to find
out how much energy is produced when burning these
alcohols. An alcohol is a series of organic
homologous compounds, with the general formula Cn
H n + 1 OH´ . Alcohols react with oxygen in
the air to form water and carbon dioxide. The
reaction that is involved in burning alcohols is
exothermic because ...
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Fatty Acids Petri Dish
4,956 words
Plan The initial variable to be considered will be
the effect that caffeine and temperature has on
the heart beat and if it has a direct or indirect
effect on the daphnia's lifespan. If there is
enough time to consider a second variable however,
the effects of a temperature or alcohol on the
daphnia's body system will also be considered
alongside the initial variable of caffeine. These
will then be slotted into the same graph which
will show us how the figure correspond to the
results. In order ...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease
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INTRODUCTION In todays society, people are gaining
medical knowledge at quite a fast pace.
Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various
diseases and disorders are being developed
constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease
remains the number one killer in the world. The
media today concentrates intensely on drug and
alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a
lot of people are not realizing is that coronary
heart disease actually accounts for about 80 % of
all sudden deaths. In fact, the num...
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Red Blood Cells Carbon Dioxide
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Effect Of Photosyntheses And Respiration On The
Effect Of Photosyntheses And Respiration On The
Environment Introduction: The environment can be
defined as the surroundings in which as organism
lives, including the climate, the physical and
chemical conditions of its habitat and its
relationship with other living things. Given the
above understanding, it is therefore important
that the right environment factors are in
existence for some chemical reactions to take
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Carbon Dioxide Measuring Cylinder
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Aim 1 To find Fermentation Aims Aim 1 To find out
what factors affect how quickly bread dough rises.
There are a number of factors that affect how
quickly bread dough rises. These are: ·
Amount of sugar-if the amount of sugar is
increased, the rate of reaction will increase.
Adding a higher concentration of sugar will
increase the sugar particles in a given space. As
the mixture is heated, the sugar particles will
begin to move. Due to a lack of space, this would
result in collisions. Thu...
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Epithelial Cells Blood Flow
571 words
Not all animals have lungs. Many animals live in
environments where lungs would be efficient enough
for survival. Gills are another type of
respiratory system, which are very efficient at
removing oxygen from water: there is only 1 / 20
the amount of oxygen present in water as in the
same volume of air. Gills greatly increase the
surface area for gas exchange and they occur in a
variety of animal groups including arthropods
(including some terrestrial crustaceans),
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Pulmonary Artery Vena Cava
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Heartthe human heart is a specialized,
four-chambered muscle that maintains BLOOD flow in
the CIRCULATORYSYSTEM. Located in the thorax, it
lies left of the bodys midline, above and in
contact with the diaphragm. It is situated
immediately behind the breastbone, or sternum, and
between the lungs, with its apex tilted to the
body cavity's left side. In most people the apex
can be felt during each heart contraction. At
rest, the heart pumps about 59 cc (2 oz) of blood
per beat and 5 l (5 qt) per mi...
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Ancient Greeks Living Organism
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The Gaia Hypothesis The Gaia Hypothesis is a
hypothesis that was developed by James Lovelock
and Lynn Margulis in the late 1970 s. James
Lovelock is a British scientist, an atmospheric
chemist, and also an inventor with an education in
human physiology. Lynn Margulis was a
microbiologist during the 1970 s at Boston
University. She also originated the theory of the
eukaryotic cell arising as a result of endo
symbiotic cell capture. This theory is the one
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Oxygen Was First Earths Crust Found
275 words
Oxygen was first Oxygen Discovery Oxygen was first
discovered by two scientists. One was a British
Chemist Joseph Priestly who was given credit for
the discovery in 1774. The other was a Swedish
Chemist Carl Wilhelm Schedule who had also
discovered it around the same time as Priestly.
Yet Priestly was given credit because his work,
and results were published. Priestly had first
found this new element when he observed that
mercuric oxide, on heating. Yielded a gas that
caused a flame to burn fast...
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Plants And Animals Million Acres
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Preservation of Wetlands Wetlands are in danger.
We must try to help them because they are very
important to us. They provide habitat and food for
a variety of animals. They also provide the unique
growing conditions needed to grow certain kinds of
plants. The survival of many species depends on
wetlands. A wetland is an ecosystem in which land
meets water or a piece of land that is covered
with a thin layer of water at least part of the
year (Lisowski 1). Most wetlands in the
Continental U. S. ...
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Solid Waste Clean Water
1,105 words
The printing business is rather hard to get into
because of the high prices of the equipment and
the need to have a large floor room for all the
machinery. Also there is usually stiff competition
within a small area. The government imposes many
regulations on printing companies in the hope that
it will help keep the environment clean from
wastes. For protecting from water pollution the
Clean Water Act is in effect for the printing
industry. Businesses must give information on the
locations of wh...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Hiv Aids
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Sex Stds Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex is a
popular subject; it is on television, in
advertisements, in magazines, and practically
everywhere. One very serious side effect of an
increase of sexual activity is the risk of
contracting sexually transmitted diseases. They
affect more than twelve million Americans each
year. Sexually transmitted diseases are becoming
common and widely spread throughout Americans
because of unprotected sex, promiscuity, and
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