ENC1102-0000 October 7‚ 2013 Breed Specific Discrimination Every day in the United States‚ there are innocent bystanders and cherubic children that are being ripped to shreds by pit bulls. Or at least that is what the media would have you believe. On average‚ it is believed that pit bulls kill 19 Americans per year. The real question that should be considered‚ but that usually is not‚ is exactly what is a “pit bull”? Generally speaking‚ when someone utters those two little words‚ the breed that
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Preparation of an Ionic Compound from Aluminum Metal October 6‚ 2010 The purpose of this laboratory project was threefold‚ in that it presented three main objectives. The first objective was to prepare the ionic compound alum from aluminum powder. The alum was produced from the reduction-oxidation reaction of aluminum with potassium hydroxide and sulfuric acid in water. The second objective was to then analyze the alum product for water crystallization; that is‚ to determine the value of x in
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speed of a metal carbonate breaking down depends on where the metal is in the reactivity series. The more reactive a metal is the slower it takes for it to breakdown. The less reactive a metal is it breaks down faster. Explain the hypothesis using scientific ideas: The metal carbonate which is lower in the reactivity series such as copper can thermally decompose much faster because it is the least reactive metal so its an unstable carbonate and the bonds are much weaker. So the metal that is
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Brains vs Metal For entertainment‚ humans often draw themselves to movies about huge robots looming over the whole city‚ trampling over skyscrapers and squashing puny humans underneath their cold‚ metal feet. Movies like this depict artificial intelligence to be “the end of the world.” While this someday towards the future might be true‚ robots do help us with some activities throughout the day. On the other hand‚ these robots do have many downsides to them. Ray Bradbury captures these downsides
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Case 2-1: Spartan Heat Exchangers Inc _________________________________________________________________________________________ Situation: 1. SPARTAN HEAT EXCHANGERS IS FACING INCREASED COMPETITION FROM EUROPEAN & KOREAN COMPANIES. KOREAN COMPANIES OFFERED LOW COST AND EUROPEAN COMPANIES HAD LESS LEAD TIME & COST. 2. Spartan Heat Exchangers have formulated new business strategy to reduce customization of products‚ reduce lead time from 14 weeks to 6 weeks‚ and lower production
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JAMES. Development of the Metal Foam Electrical Resistance Heater. (Under the Direction of Dr. Albert Shih.) This thesis presents a novel concept using a radial heating element made from porous Fe-Cr-Al metal foam in an air heater. Electrical resistance heating has been used extensively to convert the electrical energy into thermal energy. An analytic heat transfer model is first developed to estimate dimensions of the heating element. Four prototype Fe-Cr-Al metal foam electrical heaters with
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Plutonium Essay I would like to work on the metal plutonium because the discovery of plutonium has a great impact on the world. Plutonium’s symbol is Pu and its atomic number is 94. This element has 150 neutrons and 94 protons and its standard atomic weigh is 244. Plutonium is located in the 7th period and it is a silvery white metal. One of its main uses is to act as the fuel of nuclear fission Plutonium does not exist naturally‚ although some say that small
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Heat by Mike Lupica Question number 11 asks me if the book Heat has helped me in any way. This book has helped me in a way because it taught me a lesson. Heat showed me that even though a situation may seem impossible for you to overcome‚ but if you keep your head up anything is possible. Michael Arroyo‚ a 12-year-old pitching phenom from Cuba‚ is an illegal immigrant as well as an orphan living with his brother. If the Social Services heard of the situation‚ Michael and his brother‚ Carlos
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Heat engine lab Intro: when an engine runs‚ it pumps pistons that move up and down and provide energy to the engine to it to go. These pistons move because of pressure and heat. This work done on the system is not only mechanical but its also thermodynamic. When a piston undergoes one full cycle its displacement is zero because it comes back to its resting place. This means that its net thermodynamic work to be done should also be zero‚ as well as its total internal energy. In order to test this
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Techniques of Waste Heat Recovery Waste heat recovery is being more used more and more often today as it is becoming more effective‚ due to increasing energy prices‚ technological developments and a decrease in equipment costs. Heat recovery can be classified into three main strategies: recycling energy back into the process‚ recovering the energy for other onsite use and using it to generate electricity in combined heat and power systems. Once the system has been made as efficient as possible before
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