In‚ “Meditation on the Moon”‚ Aldous Huxley emphasizes the importance of viewing the world through multiple perspectives. In the first paragraph‚ Huxley makes it quite evident he does not like the phrase‚”nothing‚ but‚” He believes a better phrase would be‚” not only‚ but also”‚ and uses it throughout the passage. Huxley states in the second paragraph that the night is‚ “struggling to wake”‚ and ‚” the blinded garden dreams so vividly of its lost colours.” The use of personification throughout the
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Too much can increase your risk for skin cancer. A small amount of radio radiation is enough to pick up a distant station on your radio‚ but too much in a microwave oven will cook you in seconds! A small amount of particle radiation in‚ say‚ the radium dial of a watch‚ is enough to make it glow in the dark harmlessly‚ but too much can destroy DNA in your cells and lead to mutations…even death! Neutron radiation is also encountered in nuclear power plants and high-altitude flight and emitted from
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mass for which a star will ultimately collapse into a neutron star to black hole following a supernova. . It is of-course the famous Nobel Laureate Chandrasekhar Subrmaniam . Friends‚ there was a great scientific lady who is known for discovering Radium. She won not one‚ but two Nobel Prizes‚ one for physics and another for chemistry. Who is she? She is Madam Curie. Madam
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Have you ever wondered how Christopher Columbus and Marie Curie died? Well in the two different stories we read‚ the authors go through and talk about each person’s life from when they were younger to when they died. Throughout the both of the stories‚ you can see that Christopher Columbus and Marie were very much the same. But also the two people are very different. Marie and christopher both died of various types of diseases that slowly made them ill and later killed them. Both tried to accomplish
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There is a phantom killer lurking in our homes‚ office buildings‚ and schools. We cannot see it‚ taste it‚ or smell it. In fact‚ according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)‚ it is estimated to cause between 15‚000 and 22‚000 lung cancer deaths per year making it the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths following cigarette smoking (EPA). This phantom is the radioactive gas called Radon. Interestingly radon is a form of radiation that is a natural part of our environment. Radiation
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wave 7. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Germany) - Generation of electromagnetic waves 8. J.C.Bose (India) - Ultra short radio waves 9. W.K.Roentgen (Germany) - X-rays 10. J.J.Thomson (U.K) - Electron 11. Marie Sklodowska Curie (Poland) - Discovery of radium & Polonium; studies on natural radio activity 12. Albert Einstein (Germany) - Explanation of photoelectric effect; Theory of relativity 13. Victor Francis Hess (Austria) - Cosmic Radiation 14. R.A.Millikan(USA) Measurement of electronic charge
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“For me‚ it’s writing a book and telling people about this story.” Freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine‚ Rebecca Skloot‚ started her writing career with her first book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book took Rebecca more than a decade to research and write. It instantly hit the New York Times best-seller list where it has remained for more than four years since its publication in 2010. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was about an African-American woman
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light bulb filamets. Uranium A metal used in some nuclear reactions. Zinc A metal that prevents rust and is used in dry cell batteries. Lithium High temperature lubricants Magnesium Powder Lithium High temperature lubricants Magnesium Powder Radium Self-luminous plants Titanium Alloys with aluminum Zirconium Nucleur industry for cladding fuel
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transmitting electric arcs between two ends of cathode ray tubes. Some physicists discovered some substances that spontaneously emitted invisible rays regardless of electricity or any other type of energy. An example of these substances are: uranium and radium‚ which are named radioactive materials. X-rays were a portion of the emitted rays that had the ability to penetrate dense objects. Beta rays were labeled as rays that displayed high levels of energy. They had the ability to‚ when covered with a saucer-shaped
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negatively charged particle‚ and thus is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron Marie and Pierre Curie (April 1898) - Did considerable work in the investigations of radioactivity. They discovered two new elements: Polonium and Radium - the latter named for the radioactive glow visible in the dark. Ernest Rutherford (1899) - a New Zealand-born physicist and chemist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He is credited with the discovery of the Nucleus. Max
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