Chemistry of Bath Bombs Date: 16th May 2014 Introduction – When sodium bicarbonate and citric acid mix in water they dissolve‚ the sodium bicarbonate reacts with the citric acid to form sodium citrate and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide then bubbles out as a gas‚ which makes the bath bomb break up‚ in this experiment 3 tests will be conducted in order to find the correct ratio of bicarbonate soda and citric acid to create the
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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath’s poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe‚ the address to something that is intangible‚ and personification‚ the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However‚ they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects‚ however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West
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announced his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb‚ a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. He approved of the funding for the nuclear weapon because of several events prior to his public announcement. One of the reasons was the fact that the United States had lost its nuclear supremacy when the Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb at their test site in Kazakhstan in 1949. Another reason why
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everything they had. It was estimated that invading Japan with a normal attack would cost 1.2 million casualties (Source #2‚ see annotation). This was one of the most prevalent factors in President Truman’s decision to authorize the use of the atomic bomb. The other leading influence on the atomic bomb’s justification was the Japanese
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you’re bound to see updates on some war happening in some country. One thing that everyone on this planet seems to have in common is that no matter where one lives or who they are we all cannot escape the impact of war. The poem The Diameter of the Bomb brings this idea to light by talking about how the impact of violence doesn’t stop within the area it happened. “At the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t mention the howl of orphans
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Experiment B2‚ Heats of Combustion – The Bomb Calorimeter. Objectives: To calibrate a bomb calorimeter by the combustion of benzoic acid. Then to use the calibrated calorimeter to measure the heat of combustion of naphthalene and calculate the heat of formation of naphthalene. Theory: q = C.ΔTBA C = q / ΔTBA Moles = mass / Mr ΔŪ = ΔU / moles ΔHoc‚298 = ΔŪoc‚298 + PDV = ΔŪoc‚298 + RTΔn C10H8 (s) + 12O2 (g) 10CO2 (g) + 4H2O (l) ΔHoc‚298 = - 1
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Queen or Victim‚ the Duality of Female Authority and Oppression. Plath’s first poem in her venerable bee sequence‚ The Bee Meeting‚ offers fertile insight into the speaker of the poem’s struggle to adopt a voice in society and begs the ultimate question about women’s capacity to successfully break the chains of conformity. Plath’s multi-pronged approach addresses the poem’s persona’s confrontation with many social dichotomies. The most basic example of this duality is the fact that the speaker
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Terrorism or Bomb Blasts Outline: 1. Introduction—Terrorism is the use of violence to get political demands. 2. Who is involved in the acts of terrorism and why? 3. The disadvantages of terrorism 4. How can we do away with terrorism? 5. Conclusion—Sincere and combined efforts are needed at international level to do away with terrorism without any discrimination. Essay: Terrorism is the use of violent actions in order to achieve political aims or to force a government to act. Today the world is very
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Sylvie Plath’s “Daddy” explores the power imbalance of gender relations and the negative effects of oppression on women in a male-dominated society. The speaker’s portrayal of the patriarchal system as her “daddy” describes the infinite power enforced through hegemony on women and how women are “chuffed up as Jews” into slavery‚ suppression and loss of self-identity. The use of child discourse with words like “achoo” and “gobbledygoo” portrays the speaker as having a child-like innocence which ironically
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! ! The texts in this elective reflect the ways in which composers experiment with ideas and form to question human beliefs and values. ! Texts studied in ‘After the Bomb’ reflect a skepticism of conventional ideologies prevalent in the Cold War (1945-1990) era. These shifting social‚ political and cultural values caused an ideological warfare that influenced many to reevaluate their beliefs and alter their perception on the nature of humanity. The texts in this elective undoubtedly reflects the
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