10/03/15 – Sher Bindahnee Group members: Claire Lee and Carrie Gale – Rm 53 DECOMPOSITION OF COPPER CARBONATE (CuCO3) AIM – To investigate the thermal decomposition of copper carbonate. (qualitative assessment) HYPOTHESIS – The products of the decomposition of copper carbonate will be a metal oxide (CuO) and carbon dioxide gas. APPARATUS – ITEM QUANTITY/CONCENTRATION Copper carbonate 2 g Limewater (saturated Ca(OH)2 solution) 10 mL Bunsen burner Matches Test
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cultivated and planted with summer crops. It is irrigated only during the summer. In the fall‚ there was no irrigation. Weeds were managed manually during the summer‚ and were left without management in the fall. The field had been tilled and plant residue was incorporated in the soil two weeks before soil sampling. It was managed organically‚ without pesticide applications. c. Agrocenter‚ non-tilled field: Same management as b‚ but it was still covered with dense plant growth when we sampled
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non-organic produce. The term organic simply means using no chemicals while growing crops and raising animals. Organic means no pesticides‚ and the farmers use natural fertilizers instead of hard chemicals to kill weeds so there is no left over residue on the plants as in non-organic products farmers usually use chemicals
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How much would you pay for an organic--being maintained with extra care‚ and containing very little traces of pesticides-- food source that may not have more nutritional values‚ rather than conventional food? Some experts have found that the difference regarding the nutritional values in organic and conventional food is slim to none. This gives no way for the vast differences in prices for both categories. Organic foods are not worthwhile because of the unknown truancy of the product‚ as well as
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World Journal of Applied Environmental Chemistry.1‚ 13-17. 5. Storm‚ D. (2000). Winery Utilities: Planning‚ Design and Operation. springer.com.438pgs. 6. Wien‚ imMärz. (2010). Development of a Method for the Analysis of Neonicotinoid Insecticide Residues in Honey using LC-MS/MS and Investigations of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Matrices of Importance in Apiculture. 7. European Food Safety Authority. (2010). Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance flonicamid
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caused from smoking. A. Toxic pollutants from cigarette smoke adhere to carpets‚ clothing; even furniture and hallways of hotels that allow smoking (Coleman‚ 2009). B. Residue from tobacco that remains on the skin‚ clothes‚ and furniture still impact 30% of children ’s breathing (Susman‚ 2013). C. Cancer causing toxic tobacco residues cause significant genetic damage in human cells (Couillard‚ 2013). III. Opponents of such a ban will argue that a ban will have negative impacts on business revenues
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Lab 2: Internet Resources for Protein Biochemistry Part 1-1: A) Protein Accession Number = P00939 Name of Protein: Full Name = Triosephosphate isomerase; Short Name=TIM Organism where the protein is found: Oryctolagus cuniculus = Rabbit Nuber of amino acids in the protein: AA = 248 B) * Amino Acid Sequence: >gi|136066|sp|P00939.1|TPIS_RABIT RecName: Full=Triosephosphate isomerase; Short=TIM;
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this lab was to test the biological activity of ConA by performing a hemagglutination assay. If ConA is active then agglutination will occur due to ConA’s free receptors being able to bind to the glucose residues on the sheep’s red blood cells. If ConA is not active then no agglutination will occur. To test the hemagglutination reaction‚ two types of ConA solutions were compared‚ a purchased control ConA solution in buffer as the positive control‚ and a purified
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corresponded to a storage polysaccharide located within the protoplast of the parenchymatous cells. Its structural and compositional features corresponded to the active polysaccharide known as acemannan. On the contrary‚ in the skin tissue‚ the mannosyl residues arose from a structural polysaccharide located within the cell wall matrix. Structural and compositional differences between both polymers were confirmed by methylation analysis. The fact that acemannan is a reserve polysaccharide might help to explain
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist who has been convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment in 1977. Peltier‚ a member of the American Indian movement was convicted for first degree murder in the shooting of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation conflict. In 1965‚ years before the conflict Leonard moved to Seattle Washington and became an owner of an auto body shop. While in Seattle Leonard became involved with many causes which supported
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