FC024 10th Jun 2013 Monday 2-4 pm Scientific Principles and Enquiry (Working in Pairs) Experiment 1 – pH Titrations Introduction In quantitative chemical analysis‚ acid - base reactions are often used to provide a basis for various titration techniques. The equivalence points of acid - base titrations can be estimated from the colour change of chemical indicators‚ such as phenolphthalein‚ methyl red‚ methyl orange and so on. The choice of an indicator
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Sickle Cell Anemia first came into the view of the world around 1910 when Dr. James Herrick; a cardiologist‚ had a patient who complained of pain and described symptoms that sounded like anemia. He handed the case down to his assistant who‚ after taking a blood sample‚ discovered that the patient’s blood cells were not shaped like normal blood cells. When the patient’s blood cells were compared to normal blood cells‚ they appeared to be “sickle shaped”. After seeing this for himself Dr. Herrick took
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Female circumcision is a practice not uncommon in Muslim society. Although this practice does not only occur within Muslim society‚ this paper will focus on the practices that do occur within Islamic society. The Islamic countries with the most prevalence in practicing this form of genital mutilation are Sudan (98%)‚ Somalia (98%)‚ and Egypt (75%) (El Saadawi 34). Other Islamic countries that practice this are Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ Pakistan‚ and India‚ which practice this under the name of sunnah
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skies. Lofting safely in a small town—more than likely‚ Wheeling‚ Virginia—Rebecca Harding Davis writes a depressing‚ eye-opening novella centering around the life of poor workers slaving away to keep their bosses happy and rich titled‚ Life in the Iron Mills. When it was published in 1861‚ the country was more focused on slavery and the economy‚ as the Civil War was beginning to brew in the border states. Funnily enough‚ this story takes place in a border state. Contrary to popular belief‚ the story
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Margaret Thatcher‚ otherwise known as The Iron Lady‚ was known for her role in saving Britain. The economy of Britain was facing tremendous troubles in the nineteen hundreds (Blundell 92). If the economy of Britain continued down the road it was going‚ Britain would have faced many great economic hardships that Margaret Thatcher prevented during her time in office. Margaret Thatcher‚ the first female prime minister in British history‚ exceptionally reformed Britain in a time of need while leaving
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time where men dictated the majority of everything constitutional. Before August 18‚ 1920‚ women had no rights to contribute in the uprisings of our country. After years of extreme dedication and perseverance women finally recieved the right to vote. Iron Jawed Angels was the infamous movie that portrayed Alice Paul‚ the young suffragette and Carrie Chapman Catt‚ the well-known suffragist. This film depicted all the important dilemmas women faced throughout the years before receiving the rights they
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DEFICIENCIES OF THE PREVAILING LABOUR LAW SYSTEM IN SRI LANKA BACKGROUND FOR THE STUDY 1.1. Employment Employment is a An act of employing State of being employed The work in which one is engaged; occupation. An activity to which one devotes time The percentage or number of people gainfully employed: "a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment" (William Henry Beveridge). 1.2. Definition of Employee and Employer “A person who is hired to provide services
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while an example of a fungal pathogenic disease is candidiasis. Deficiency diseases A deficiency disease is caused by a deficiency of vital nutrients in the diet‚ especially a mineral or vitamin. The disease could be as a result of an insufficient intake of nutrients‚ their digestion‚ their absorption or their utilization within the body. A nutritional disease is normally connected to chronic malnutrition. Examples of deficiency diseases are scurvy and rickets. Acute poisoning can also result
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Software metrics are meant to be measures in the scientific sense of the term‚ with the goal of giving objective views on software related objects and phenomena. The well known problem of software development is that there is very little scientific foundation to the subject. Electrical engineers can use physics as the foundation of their activities. As a result the measures they use in their daily work‚ such as Volt and Ampere‚ correspond to well defined phenomena (electric potential‚ electric
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a type of corrosion but the term is restricted to iron or products made from it. Iron is easily prone to rusting making its surface rough. Chemically‚ rust is a hydrated ferric oxide. Rusting‚ an electrochemical mechanism: Rusting may be explained by an electrochemical mechanism. In the presence of moist air containing dissolved oxygen or carbon dioxide‚ the commercial iron behaves as if composed of small electrical cells. At anode of cell‚ iron passes into solution as
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