saltwater. Both can drown you but in completely difference ways. Drowning in saltwater is not as dangerous as it counterpart due to how easily you can recover from it. When you breathe in saltwater it goes in the lungs and sits there. Because the salt concentration of saltwater is really high compared to the cells in the lungs the water does not pass through and into the cells. The water is hypertonic so for the body to reach equilibrium with saltwater‚ water from the blood cells are sent out into
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hydrated salt in order to determine the percentage of water inside of this hydrated salt. We heated up the salt in order to boil off the water‚ which allowed us to find the weight of the CuSO4 by itself. By comparing this final weight with the original weight and subtracting the difference‚ we were able to compile data about how much the weight of the hydrated salt decreased as the water gradually boiled away. In doing so‚ we were able to find the total weight of the water in the hydrated salt by subtracting
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also known as salt‚ common salt‚ table salt or halite‚ is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl‚ representing equal proportions of sodium and chlorine. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt‚ it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative. /Salt is currently mass-produced by evaporation of seawater or brine from brine wells and salt lakes. Mining of
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Salt and Ice; Minnesotas Battle Abstract Salt is applied in the thousands of tons every year to reduce ice and‚ in turn‚ reduce accidents on Minnesota roads. When the ice and snow melt each spring‚ the majority of this solution is relieved into rivers and lakes through storm drains on Minnesota roads. The salt negatively affects fish and aquatic plants by dehydrating them and altering fertilization. The damaging effects of sodium chloride are long term and not easily repaired. The Minnesota
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2 Part 1: In favor of: • Strengths- There is enough conclusive evidence that a reduced salt diet will help decrease future health risks. This shows that over time people that they studied that had a diet that contained less salt showed a decrease risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The fact that they have a few large companies on their side somewhat trying to reduce the amount of salt in their food works well to try and get others to follow. This shows that the companies that will
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Heat of vaporisation. f. . Melting point g. Boiling point 4. Why do gases diffuse rapidly? 5. Write the relationship between Celsius scale and Kelvin scale of temperature. 6. Why does the level of water not change when salt is dissolved in water? 7. How can matter change its state? 8. Define boiling. Why boiling is considered as bulk phenomenon? 9. Why does the temperature of a substance remain constant during melting and boiling even when heat is being supplied
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Cleaning up after the Apollo Sea Introduction The species Spheniscus demersus‚ more commonly known as South African penguins‚ also called Jackass penguins‚ have fallen victim to the negligence of oil carriers. The population of South African penguins has decreased from 3 million to less than 150‚000 in the past century (Singer 2000). The cause of this unfortunate decrease in population are the many oil spills near southern Africa‚ with the first oil spill occurring in 1948 (Whittington 1999).
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example the presence of salt greatly enhances the rusting of metals. This is due to the fact that the dissolved salt increases the conductivity of the aqueous solution formed at the surface of the metal and enhances the rate of electrochemical corrosion. This is one reason why iron or steel tend to corrode much more quickly when exposed to salt (such as that used to melt snow or ice on roads) or moist salty air near the ocean. [pic] salt will speed up rusting. The more salt you
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Love Across the Salt Desert K N Daruwla The story "Love Across the Salt Desert" is set in the village of Khavda‚ located in the Desert of Kutch‚ Gujarat‚ India. The author has used this backdrop to effectively symbolize the thirst that the two protagonists feel for one another--so the scorching sun of the desert becomes a metaphor for their parched lives which were looking for satiation. He also extends the drought prevailing in the land to be an expression of the same deprivation and with the
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thirty-four‚ I became the matriarch of my family. The losses I encountered at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge as Great Salt Lake was rising helped me to face the losses within my family. (pp. 3-4). The book tells of the time before the death of the author’s‚ Terry William’s mother who was struggling with cancer. It also tells her story of the flooding of the Great Salt Lake‚ which coincided with that time‚ focusing in especially on its effects on the birds of the region. Together these stories
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