pH In chemistry‚ pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution. Solutions with a pH less than 7 are said to be acidic and solutions with a pH greater than 7 are basic or alkaline. Pure water has a pH very close to 7. pH is defined as the decimal logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion activity‚ aH+‚ in a solution. Universal indicator consists of a mixture of indicators such that there is a continuous color change from about pH 2 to pH 10. Universal indicator paper
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Audra McFarland Mr. Bergmann Sophomore Honors P6 28th September 2016 Conservation What if I were to tell you that your way of life is at stake? If I told you that your casual cruising around town or your habit of just tossing your drink in the trash without dumping it out was causing major harm to our earth‚ would you be concerned? Today‚ our carbon emissions are skyrocketing so alarmingly fast‚ the atmosphere has not been this warm in 66 million years. The excess carbon has caused a five degree
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Water politics is politics affected by water and water resources. For this reason‚ water is a strategic resource in the globe and an important element in many political conflicts. It causes health impacts and damage to biodiversity. 1.6 billion people have gained access to a safe water source since 1990.[63]The proportion of people in developing countries with access to safe water is calculated to have improved from 30% in 1970[64] to 71% in 1990‚ 79% in 2000 and 84% in 2004. This trend is projected
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Should NASA continue to be funded by the U.S government? Remember the “Space Race” against Russia? What would have happened if we had shut down NASA before that? Getting a man to the moon was a Cold War victory! Shutting down funding for space exploration would be utterly devastating. Did you know that we can do research in space that we can’t do on earth? In space‚ we can understand more about gravity‚ and how machines work in different conditions‚ special medical research can be done in space
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The Everglades: A Food Web Diagram Name BIO/101 Date Dr. Doreen Sterling The Everglades: A Food Web Diagram The Everglades is a two million acre wetland ecosystem. The Everglades reaches from central Florida‚ near Orlando‚ all the way south to Florida Bay (National Wildlife Federation‚ 1996-2013). During the wet season‚ Lake Okeechobee overflows‚ releasing water into a slow moving‚ shallow river. The river is mostly saw-grass marsh. The Everglades is an ecosystem that hosts a large diversity
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Country at a Glance Maldives has deep blue seas‚ turquoise reefs‚ white sandy beaches and palm trees. It is also a place full of character‚ where its people have long spent their days languishing in the very essence of idyll living. While it is the perfect place to sit on a beach and watch a sunset with a cocktail balanced on your hand‚ it is also a geographical marvel‚ knowing that there are thousands of fish swimming around the vivid corals just a few feet away from where you sit. Time:
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streets and pollute the environment in which they live in. Furthermore‚ food is very scarce in New York in the film and they eat a resource which is made from dead bodies called soylent green. This soylent green wafer proclaims to contain high energy plankton and many more nutrients from the ocean which it doesn’t. This pseudoscientific
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Asian carp populations are continuing to grow and this means that they are consuming more native fish and plankton. According to Irons et al.‚ the Asian carp population is not declining. Irons and the rest of his team went out and caught fish in La Grange Reach‚ Illinois River and saw how many Asian carps they had collected. They then compared it to annual totals
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The Black Sea is located between East European massif in the north and Asia Minor in the south; Caucasia in the east and the Balkan Peninsula in the west. This sea is extremely important to Russia because of many reasons. The sea gives Russia many natural resources‚ including fish and many different types of nutrients. The sea also is very important in Russian history because many arguments‚ battles‚ and disputes have occurred because of the uncertainty of who owns the Black Sea and its resources
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Chapter One: ‘‘Heaven and Earth in Jest’’ The opening of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is one of the most famous passages from the book. ‘‘I used to have a cat‚’’ the book begins. The narrator reports that she was in the habit of sleeping naked in front of an open window‚ and the cat would use that window to return to the house at night after hunting. In the morning‚ the narrator would awaken to find her body ‘‘covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I’d been painted with roses.’’ This opening
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