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Reforestation
<view this essay>.... are cut down. One is to benefit economically,
with furniture and home building. But there is also another reason. Arguments
say "the United States could help slow the atmospheric accumulation of carbon
dioxide by replacing old-growth forests with faster-growing young trees". A new
study of young and old forests says how this is in fact not true. Loggers have
said that new trees pull the carbon dioxide better than old trees, and this may
seem true, but it is not. There is one point being overlooked from all of this.
The older, larger trees can store much, much more carbon dioxide than a new tree
could. By cutting and burning these magnificent season .....
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Mars 2
<view this essay>.... more like Earth’s surface than any other planet in our solar system.
Much of the Martian surface is rough and cratered, but expansive flat plains and smooth hills can also be found. Unlike any other planet, there is a striking difference between the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars; one is extremely rough and old while the other is young and relatively smooth. The southern hemisphere is strewn with ancient craters of all sizes and is also elevated by a several kilometers creating a visible boundary. On the opposite end the northern hemisphere consists of a wider variety of geological features, but is obviously smoother and much younger. Ther .....
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Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
<view this essay>.... have observed interesting results, including that it causes structural changes in the brain, depresses male sperm counts, causes chromosome damage, lowers testosterone levels, and damages the lungs. Most of these claims, however, have been unreplicated in humans or have been contradicted by other work. This section will address each of these reported negative side-effects. Various studies have claimed that cannabis destroys brain cells. However, several other studies found no structural or neurochemical atrophy in the brain at all. Furthermore, it should be noted that Heath's work was sharply criticized for avoiding safeguards of bias and reporting "chang .....
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Acid Rain Legislation
<view this essay>.... the most efficient
biogeochemical cycles on earth, the Hydrologic Cycle. This allows acid rain to
distribute itself further away from it's source causing more than local problems.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is released by fossil fuels when they undergo combustion.
Power plants and other fossil fuel burning industrial areas release various
forms of nitrous oxides (Nox). These two chemical compounds combine with the
water in the atmosphere to form what is known as acid rain.
The main reason that has prompted legislation of industrial emissions
from governments is because of the negative effects they can have on the
environment. Acid rain is harmful to the envi .....
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Computer Viruses
<view this essay>.... infected boot program executes, the virus is loaded into the computers memory. Once the Virus is in memory, it can spread to any floppy disk inserted into the computer. A file virus inserts virus codes into program files
The virus then spreads to any program that accesses the infected file. A Trogan horse virus (named after the Greek myth) hides within or is designed to look like s legitimate program.
Some viruses interrupt processing by freezing a computer system temporarily and then displaying sounds or messages. Other viruses contain time bombs or logic bombs. A time bomb is a program that performs an activity on a particular date. A logic bomb i .....
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Aluminum: The Element
<view this essay>.... improved the process by using
metallic potassium. He was the first to measure the specific gravity of
aluminum and show it'd lightness. In 1854, Henri Sainte-Claire Deville
obtained the metal by reducing aluminum chloride, with sodium. Deville
displayed pure aluminum at the Paris exposition of 1855. Aluminum the most
abundant metallic constituent in the crust of the Earth. It is never found
as a non-metal. It occurs most commonly as aluminum silicate or as a
silicate of aluminum mixed with other metals such as sodium, potassium,
iron, calcium, and magnesium. Charles M. Hall and Paul L. T. Heroult,
independently and almost simultaneously found out that a .....
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The Cambrian Period
<view this essay>.... Itıs very important because it corresponds with the firs t appearance of
abundant fossils especially Trilobites, which characterizes a succeeding point
in time. During the Cambrian Period the lapetus Ocean appeared, the
predecessor of the Atlantic Ocean, which separated the young North American and
Eurasian continents. Also Gondwanaland was in the final stages of development.
Gondwanaland was a very large continent made up of what is now South America,
Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica. Large shelled
organisms first emerged during the Cambrian. Also Earthıs atmosphere contained
the same amount of oxygen as it does now, eno .....
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Lasers 4
<view this essay>.... a particle as well as a wave. In beams of light whether they are ordinary natural or artificial the photon waves will not be traveling together because they are not being emitted at exactly the same moment but instead at random short bursts. Even if the light is of a single frequency that statement would also be true. A laser is useful because it produces light that is not only of essentially a single frequency but also coherent, with the light waves all moving along in unison.
Lasers consist of several components. A few of the many things that the so-called active medium might consist of are, atoms of a gas, molecules in a liquid, and ions in a crystal. Anot .....
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