Potato Batteries: Veggie power! Data and Analysis Background The battery was invented around 1800 by Alessandro Volta in Italy. It has become an indispensable part of modern life. Why are batteries so useful? Because they convert chemical energy into electrical energy. You can use this electrical energy to light a flashlight‚ to start a car‚ or to listen to your favorite music. We made a simple battery out of a potato by placing in it a zinc strip and a copper strip. At the zinc strip‚ the
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I A. The autumn of 1856 was a time of great starvation for Ireland. B. Many people were affected by the Potato Famine because the potato was their staple crop. C. The population during the famine dropped from 8.1 million to 6.8 million. D. Why was the famine so severe even though it was during the modern age? Thesis: The impact of the Irish Potato Famine would not have been as devastating if England hadn’t controlled Ireland by foreclosing thriving industries‚ passing
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Securing long hair in a ponytail. Materials: Marshmallows. Tortilla chips. Potato chips. Barbeque lighter. Thermometer. Stirring rod. Ring stand. Data: Food Weight Before Burning Food Weight After Burning Tortilla chip‚ 3.2g Tortilla Chip‚ 1.15g Marsh Mallows‚ 8.4g Marsh Mallows‚ 6.1g Potato Chips‚ 7.7g Potato Chips‚ 1.5g Water Temp. Before Burning Water used for tortilla chips‚ 25
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The Growth in Potato Production and Inception of Secondary Potato Markets in India Case Study: McCain India Limited Potatoes are a staple food crop in most developed and developing nations. The original habitat of South America was discovered by Europeans when Columbus landed on Latin American soil. However‚ the potato was adapted as a field crop only during the late 16th and early 17th century1. Global
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By: Eugenia Collier Sweet Potato Pie Eugenia W. Collier is an AfricanAmerican writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds"‚ which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction Award. Born: 1928‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ United States. Books: Breeder and Other Stories. Education: University of College Park‚ Columbia Howard University. Maryland‚ University‚ Building Backgrou Sharecropping nd This was a farming system practiced in the South in years between the Civil War and
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As I’m sitting there‚ watching a hot potato – a literal hot potato‚ fly towards me‚ I’m wondering what I got myself into. Rewind a couple of days and I’m in school talking to the new girl named Jocelyn. She wore converse and had these cool long side bangs that everyone in the eighth grade was jealous of and had come from some far off place called Falls City. As the new kid with the cool hair‚ everyone was competing to lure her into their posses’. I‚ a typically quiet‚ reserved person‚ tended to stick
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Potato osmosis report Operators Introduction The purpose of the liberation Liberation is to understand what is happening with the potatoes when it is in the water. To find out how osmosis takes place and what it ’s purpose as well as other examples of osmosis. The experiment is to understand what is happening with the potatoes when they are in the water and understand the osmosis process occurs. Osmosis Background facts Osmosis comes from the Greek "[-mo: ´ s] (new latin osmo ´ sis‚ Greek
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How is the story told in this extract of ‘The Great Gatsby’? Harpreet Basra This extract is all about Gatsby giving the tour of his house to Daisy and Nick and it seems that the reoccurring theme in this extract is all about the superficiality and materialism of society at the time. Fitzgerald uses a number of different narrative techniques to show this. One of the main techniques used is the use of motifs. In the extract there is a whole narrative paragraph that just describes the shirts
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atomic mass. When a compound is made‚ these relative atomic masses are added together to calculate the relative formula mass of the substance. For example the atomic mass of Na is 23 and the atomic mass of Cl is 35.5 so the relative formula mass of NaCl is 58.5 How by using RFM is it possible to work out amounts of a substance in terms of moles? The compound I was using in my experiment was NaOH. The first thing I needed to work out was the number of moles I needed. To do this I used the formula:
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In an extract from Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love’ the main character‚ Joe‚ faces many conflicts emotionally. In Joe’s mind‚ his emotions and rational thought pull him in two different directions when all he seeks is a common answer. In order to portray Joe’s emotional distress‚ Enduring Love’ is told through first person narration. Joe searches for logical explanations but the more he looks‚ the further the truth seems to be. The day after John Logan’s death‚ Joe’s conscious makes the whole event
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