How the Potato Changed the World In today’s world the potato is the fifth most vital crop universal‚ it follows wheat‚ corn‚ rice and sugar cane. However in the 18th century the potato was an amazing novelty‚ part of a global environmental fit started by Christopher Columbus. Roughly 250 million years ago‚ the world consisted of a single giant landmass now known as Pangaea. Physical forces broke Pangaea separately‚ creating the continents and hemispheres well-known today. Over the eons
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Potatoes taste pretty good. Mashed‚ fried‚ baked‚ or scalloped‚ but how about taking the place of a car battery? If a potato can replace a AA battery and light up a light bulb‚ who’s to say multiple potatoes couldn’t serve the same purpose in a car? Potatoes use the acids within them to start a reaction between the copper and zinc wires on either side of it. This reaction causes the flow of electrons passing through the wires and using the positive and negatively charged electrons to power the
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The purpose of this lab is to determine the rate of reaction under different circumstances. Different variables will be manipulated to discover their effects on a particular reaction. Changes in temperature‚ pH‚ and enzyme concentration are examples of factors that have the potential to affect the initial rate of an enzyme catalyzed reaction in a controlled experiment‚ whether it be speeding the reaction up or slowing it down. Part I of the experiment establishes a baseline that can be used to compare
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How Greasy Are Your Potato Chips? Dr. Camille Passalacqua January 31‚ 2014 Potato Chips 1 Introduction When people eat a bag of potato chips they do not usually look to see how many calories are in each bag. Potato chips come in a variety of flavors‚ including: barbecue‚ sour cream and onion‚ and salt and vinegar. According to Harvard University analysis the average person eats about 6 lbs of potato chips a year. The purpose of this experiment was to inform readers
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Effects The Rate Of Reaction. Strategy A Possible Factors * Source of catalase * Concentration * Surface Area of enzyme * Concentration of enzyme * pH * Temperature Chosen Factor We chose to investigate the concentration of enzyme as we had previously investigated the optimum temperature for catalase in the preliminary investigation. Concentration of enzyme is also fairly easy to investigate‚ as you need to only increase the amount of potato that you want to investigate
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FEASIBILITY REPORT ON POTATO CHIPS MANUFACTURING UNIT In partial fulfillment of Entrepreneurship & Management of Innovations SUBMITTED TO:- Sir. A.R ZAKI SUBMITTED BY: - SEEMA BANO. 32 AMNAH ABBAS. 04 JAVERIYA HASSAN. 13 KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL(KUBS) PROJECT PROFILE The project describes setting up a Potato Chips Manufacturing Unit in any big city of Pakistan. The unit will produce a variety of flavored‚ premium quality potato chips in two standard
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The story of potato chips dates back to late 1850s‚ when a New York chef presented deep fried crisp potato chips to the railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. Although the invention was made out of curiosity‚ it became an instant hit after Vanderbilt gave it an approval. Till date‚ potato chips are one of the most favorite snacks among many Americans. To keep up with the healthy trend at present‚ many chips makers now have baked alternatives to traditional chips. Here are few choices of our top chips
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The results provide evidence that when there was an increase in the sodium chloride concentration the mass of the potato prisms declined. At the zero percent concentration there was an increase of mass by 1.75%‚ from there the 1%‚ 3%‚ 5% and 10% begun on a downward trend with the percentage change in mass declining. The graph was on a steady decline from 0% being the highest point with a change of mass of 1.75% finishing with the 10% solution on a decline of -12.28%. From observing the scatter plot
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I lived on a potato farm in Ireland during the Great Potato Famine. It was the worst famine in Europe in the 19th century. This famine started in September of 1845 and ended in 1852. During this time‚ life in Ireland was extremely difficult. We suffered from much starvation and disease. Approximately one million of us died and another million emigrated to other countries‚ especially America. The population of the country dropped 20 to 25%. The Great Famine began mysteriously. My family
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The years during the mid 1840s to 1850s in Ireland were definitely not the best for many families‚ it was a time of tragedy. These were the years during the horrific times called the Irish Famine‚ also known as the Potato Famine or Great Hunger. The Irish Famine claimed innumerable amount of lives‚ leading to a “mass emigration of famine survivors to the United States” (McCallum). There were countless of families who emigrated to America during this catastrophe in order to escape starvation‚ poverty
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