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    Flame Lab

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    Flame Lab Objective: How an electron absorbs energy and re-emits it as light and why different elements have different spectra. Also to learn how to use flame tests to determine the identity of unknown mixtures. Hypothesis: We know that certain compounds will burn certain flame colors because they emit different wave lengths. Introduction: Neils Bohr made the “Bohr’s Model” in 1922‚ he found that electron travel in specified fields – which‚ when excited‚ will jump to different rings

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    Sixteen Candles Sociology

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    In the film “Sixteen Candles” shows the power of social groups and cliques during adolescence. The image of women and the standards and stereotypes they are held to play a big role. It depicts the power cliques and social groups have during teenage years. This film allows many to rethink how their high school experience‚ even those who have recently graduated can relate to this high school experience in 1984. The high school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker has a hard time getting through the day of

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    At the Candle Light

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    At the candle light I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of a thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own‚ I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen‚ Pride and Prejudice In a world that believes ignorance is bliss‚ true knowledge can only be earned by reading. The more you read the more lives you live. Discovering the diverse palette of culture‚ gaining an insight into what matters in the real‚

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    Chemistry Candle Lab

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    Chemistry Chapter 4 The Candle Lab | | ------------------------------------------------- Before You Start – ------------------------------------------------- The scientific process is a systematic way of explaining how events are related to each other in the natural world. Careful observations are the first step in this process. An observation is a fact obtained with the senses. ------------------------------------------------- You might think that a burning candle is pretty simple. But‚

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    Candle in the Darkness

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    Candle in the Darkness By Lynn Austin In the Refiner’s Book series‚ Book One: Candle in the Darkness takes place in Richmond‚ Virginia‚ the time being right before the Civil War. A white girl named Caroline Fletcher‚ only twelve years old‚ is faced with many struggles and whether she can keep her faith in God. The story starts out with her best friend‚ a 9 year old slave boy being sold from Caroline’s family. She is affected greatly as a young girl‚ and her world starts slowly changing around

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    Miles Halter (the main character of this novel ) his moving away from his public school to his future private school (Culver Creek Boarding School ).Miles arrives at Culver Creek where is Ideas of the school are destroyed by the look of the school and with his new roommate half naked.His name is Chip Martin he is the new roommate of Miles.After talking a lot with Martin‚He tells Miles his nickname the Colonel and give also a nickname to Miles Pudge (because he his skinny) and introduces Pudge to

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    Flame Test

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    Title: Flame Test Aim: To determine the cation in each of the unknown substance X‚ Y and Z by observing the flame colour of different metal compounds. Introduction: A distinctive feature of many s-block metals is their ability to produce flame colours. At temperature of a Bunsen flame‚ a compound will decompose to give gaseous atoms of its constituent elements. When an electron in the gaseous atom absorbs energy from the flame‚ it will move from an orbital with lower energy to

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    children‚ we are afraid of the unknown under our bed that darkness brings‚ which‚ in turn‚ makes our imaginations run wild‚ creating monsters‚ ghosts‚ and of course‚ the occasional boogeyman. Even as adults‚ we still have an antipathy to drive at night or go walking alone in the darkness. So it only makes sense that darkness is used in all forms of art to symbolize some kind of fear‚ unknown thing or place‚ or a mournful state. Within the world of poetry‚ the contrast of light and dark can be seen

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    Short essay on the meaning of If winter comes can spring be far behind The quotation referred to is the last line of shelley’s famous poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind". In the poem‚ the poet identifies himself with West Wind‚ which‚ to him‚ is both the destroyer and the preserver. The poet has dead thoughts which he would like to be scattered by the West Wind like dead leaves. In place of these dead thoughts‚ he wants new and fresh thoughts to be born in him. As from an extinguished hearth‚ ashes and

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    Daniel Speech 10 My research topic focuses on how people who work in the field of law enforcement detect deception. Whether it be through interrogations or consensual encounters. I have a really strong interest in this topic because I am currently working towards a degree in Administration of Justice. I want to work as a police officer and eventually work my way into the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). I also have a couple of family members working in law enforcement

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