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  • Zinc and Hydrochloric Acid

    Zinc and Hydrochloric Acid

    Zinc and Hydrochloric-Acid Written By Kahlil Zione Date:02/02/05 Abstract: We observed the reaction between zinc and hydrochloric acid and recorded it in a table and learned wether the percentage of zinc is effected by the amounts of both substances added to the solution. Introduction The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the amount of zinc and hydrochloric acid will effect the percentage of the zinc in the out coming solution. We are reacting

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    Essay Length: 422 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mike
  • There Will Come Soft Rains Essay

    There Will Come Soft Rains Essay

    "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury. The story is about a high-technology smart house in a post-human world. Due to a nuclear war, the inhabitants of the home have perished; only their silhouettes are left, etched into the burned outer walls. The intelligent house, unaware of their deaths, continues to serve the absent people. Throughout the story, which spans a day, the house makes breakfast, disposes

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    Essay Length: 303 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Anna
  • Dna or Deoxyribosenucleic Acid

    Dna or Deoxyribosenucleic Acid

    The use of ?DNA? in police investigations The issue whether DNA should be used in police investigations is widely debated in the community. It is an important issue because it brings to attention the moral and ethical implications of using DNA as an investigative tool. A variety of different options have been put forward about the issue. DNA or deoxyribosenucleic acid is the genetic material in cells specific to the individual (James & Nordy, 2002).

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    Essay Length: 900 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Investigating the Reaction Between Hydrochloric Acid and Calcium Carbonate

    Investigating the Reaction Between Hydrochloric Acid and Calcium Carbonate

    Calcium Carbonate + Hydrochloric Acid Calcium Carbonate + Water + + Carbon Dioxide CaCO3(s) + 2HC(aq) CaCl(aq) + H2O(l) + CO2(g) The reaction between Hydrochloric Acid and Calcium Carbonate is being investigated because it produces a gas called Carbon Dioxide. This gas can be collected and is therefore a reliable result to base the investigation on. Variable Why will this variable affect the rate of gas production? Volume of HCl The more HCl used in

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    Essay Length: 475 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Victor
  • Mary Austin the Land of Little Rain

    Mary Austin the Land of Little Rain

    Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain The Basket Maker Mary Austin’s The Basket Maker is, like all her other stories in the book, a very detailed description of the western landscape and its inhabitants. But this time she focused more on a single inhabitant, an Indian woman named Seyavi. It is rather difficult to really define the plot of the story. Though the story seems to focus on Seyavi’s life and experiences she is

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    Essay Length: 1,248 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Rain as a Symbol

    Rain as a Symbol

    In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, rain is used to symbolize and represent, principally, war, death, and love. After establishing the significance of rain in the first chapter, the reader instantly takes note. At the mention of rain in other scenes, the reader is wrought with strong feelings, usually of war, death, or love. Throughout the novel, Hemingway places rain in with many of the most important scenes, which the reader then connects

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Analysis on the Man to Send Rain Clouds

    Analysis on the Man to Send Rain Clouds

    The Man to Send Rain Clouds Readers Reaction This was quite an interesting story. There were three sections to the story which broke the story in three different times in one day. The characters were all very nonchalant except for the priest who showed some emotion when he found out that old Teofilo died. The story kept our interest, however, it did not lead a very clear trail to the end, and there was no

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    Essay Length: 1,507 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Analysis of Singin in the Rain

    Analysis of Singin in the Rain

    Released in 1951, Singin in the Rain was one of the last films to be produced during the profitable golden age of the studio system. It evokes the typical characteristics of the popular MGM Hollywood musical by relying on superstar names and infectious dance numbers. However, Singin in the Rain incorporates an additional level of parody into its nostalgic plot that focuses on the disruptive shift from silent movies to "talkies." The film showcases classical

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    Essay Length: 500 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Tommy
  • An Investigation into the Factors Affecting the Rate of the Reaction Between Calcium Carbonate and Hydrochloric Acid

    An Investigation into the Factors Affecting the Rate of the Reaction Between Calcium Carbonate and Hydrochloric Acid

    An Investigation into the Factors Affecting the Rate of the Reaction between Calcium Carbonate and Hydrochloric Acid A chemical reaction is the process by which atoms or groups of atoms are redistributed, resulting in a change in the molecular composition of substances. The reaction rate is how quickly a reaction occurs and this can be affected by four different factors: Ў¤ changing the surface area of any solids involved Ў¤ changing the concentration of reactants

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    Essay Length: 2,505 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cat in the Rain

    Cat in the Rain

    CAT IN THE RAIN In the short story ,writen by E. Hemingway, “CAT IN THE RAIN” , the main character George’ s wife sees a cat in the rain from the window of the room. She wants to bring the cat to the room but his husband is indifferent to her request and continues to read his newspaper. Although it seems as an ordinary event, there lies an important point under these lines which

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    Essay Length: 591 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Janna
  • Finding out How Much Acid Is in a Solution

    Finding out How Much Acid Is in a Solution

    Aim To discover the accurate concentration of a sample of sulphuric (VI) Acid. It is thought to have a concentration between 0.05 and 0.15 mol dm-3. This is to be done by neutralising the acid with sodium carbonate using a titration. Theoretical Background The reaction between Sulphuric Acid and Sodium Carbonate is a neutralisation. Sulphuric acid is a strong acid(1) . This means that it is a powerful proton, H+ donor and that it is

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    Essay Length: 798 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

    Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

    Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Imagine seeing radiant colors, rippling surfaces, and inanimate objects come to life. One of the most controversial, well known, and most used hallucinogens is lysergic acid diethylamide- LSD. It has influenced hundreds of thousands including The Beatles, famous chemist Laureate Kary Mullis; even the founder of Microsoft has admitted, “Computers would not have advanced as quickly as they have without it” (Hunt). Hallucinogenic drugs alter a person's perceptions of reality as well

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cat in the Rain Research Paper

    Cat in the Rain Research Paper

    Ernest Hemingway Bio,The Time Peculiarities and The Conditions He Lived in and Affected by * Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o'clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century. In doing so, he also created a mythological hero in himself that captivated (and at times confounded) not only

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    Essay Length: 9,543 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Acid

    Acid

    Screaming at the Perception of Death I definitely will always remember this cold and rainy night as if I was just waking from the night before. We were young then and had no idea what this life had to offer us. It was careless and at the time I could have cared less...my whole world could have come crashing down at this one moment with one smash, one swerve or one scream and I could

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    Essay Length: 2,264 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Raymond Carver's Cathedral Vs. Tess Gallagher's Rain Flooding Your Campfire

    Raymond Carver's Cathedral Vs. Tess Gallagher's Rain Flooding Your Campfire

    Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Tess Gallagher’s “Rain Flooding your Campfire” are good examples of intertextual dialogue between two writers. These two stories show us how two writers can grow and develop short stories differently from the same experience. There are similarities between the stories, such as the use of a first person narrator, the plot, setting, and also there is an interchange between the narrator and the blind man in both stories. But within these

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    Essay Length: 1,574 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: David
  • Fountains in the Rain

    Fountains in the Rain

    AKIO’S JOURNEY The short story of “Fountains in the Rain” written by Yukio Mishima is about a young boy who is trying to break up with his girlfriend. In the story the young couple finds them selves by a fountain, a key place of setting. Fountain shows a lot of importance in the story. ��Mishima Yukio is arguably still the most famous writer modern Japan has produced’’ (Enotes 1). Akio, the main character, starts off

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    Essay Length: 1,794 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ascorbic Acid

    Ascorbic Acid

    In the following experiment, the amount of vitamin C content in Sunny D will be compared to regular Prairie Farms® orange juice, as well as a standard sample. This will determine the amount of each of these juices that should be consumed daily to achieve the recommended daily allowance to prevent a disease known as scurvy. PROCEDURE: First a buret was set up in a clamp and filled with 2,6-dichloroindophenol dye solution. Record the initial

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    Essay Length: 802 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Separation of Acid, Base and Neutral Compounds from a Solid Mixture by Liquid-Liquid Extraction

    Separation of Acid, Base and Neutral Compounds from a Solid Mixture by Liquid-Liquid Extraction

    Experiment #1: Separation of Acid, Base, and Neutral Compounds from a Solid Mixture by Liquid-Liquid Extraction Introduction Liquid-liquid extraction is a technique used to separate chemical substances in order to purify or identify the various components of a mixture. Flavors, spices, perfumes, and medicines are just some of the everyday things that are extracted from plants and other natural sources [1]. The basic principle used to carry out this separation is the mixing of two

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    Essay Length: 765 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Wintergreen Oil

    Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Wintergreen Oil

    Introduction This lab's purpose was to determine whether Salicylic Acid made from methyl salicylate is the same as Salicylic Acid made from benzene. This information can be found by comparing the difference in melting points of the two samples of Salicylic Acid. Here are the physical properties of Salicylic Acid and the mechanism of reactions that occurred in this lab. How Salicylic Acid is derived: Procedure/Results First, .26mL of 2.0mmol methyl Salicylate was measured and

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Max
  • Acid Spunk Documentation

    Acid Spunk Documentation

    ---------------------------------- Acidspunk installation instruction ---------------------------------- Acidspunk requires an MMX processor and DirectX Place the .dll in winamp's plugin directory. Start winamp and press "ctrl-k" Choose acidspunk and press "configure" (or "alt-k") Set the screen resolution Start the plugin "ctrl-shift-k" Check the framerate by pressing F2 while the plugin is running. The plugin should run between 20-30 frames per second to look good. If not adjust the screen resolution. Party on! Sшren Holstebroe - soren@rhk.dk Acidspunk

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    Essay Length: 691 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Vika
  • Rain Forest

    Rain Forest

    Long ago, the Earth had a green belt of rain forests around its middle that covered almost twelve percent of the earth's land surface. Today, the rain forest covers two percent of the earth's land surface and it is declining rapidly. The following will be a description of the rain forest, factors in its destruction, and if there are any answers to slow or halt the process. "Today, as we enter the last decade of

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Jack
  • Amino Acids and How They Relate to Athletics

    Amino Acids and How They Relate to Athletics

    After a paper published by the American Dietetic Association in 1987, high protein intakes or excessive amino acids supplements have not been demonstrated to increase athletic performance. After nutritionist, the plain old answer of "eat balanced, eat normal" still remains the best known method: 0.8 grams of protein for an adult for each kilogram of body weight (recommended dietary allowance). On the other hand, more studies on athletes doing intensive training have suggested that as

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    Essay Length: 284 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 (lsd)

    D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 (lsd)

    LSD The psychedelic effects of d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 (LSD) were discovered by Dr. Albert Hoffman by accident in 1938. In the 1950s and 1960s, LSD was used by psychiatrists for analytic psychotherapy. It was thought that the administration of LSD could aid the patient in releasing repressed material. It was also suggested that psychiatrists themselves might develop more insight into the pathology of a diseased mind through self experimentation. 1,2 During the late 60s, LSD

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: regina
  • Rain Man

    Rain Man

    Often in life the greatest thing you have is that which you have yet to even know existed. In Rain Main, Charlie Babbage(Tom Cruise) discovers he has a brother Raymond (Dustin Huffman). At first Charlie sees Raymond as an obstacle to inheriting his father's fortune but with time learns to love Raymond his mentally challenged savant brother. Charlie has run into financial difficulties and is about to lose his exotic car dealership. As he attempts

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Shikimic Acid Fermentation

    Shikimic Acid Fermentation

    In the Name of God Biotechnology MSc. Seminar: Current issues in production of Shikimic Acid, intermediate for the production of Oseltamivir, the Avian Flu drug Supervised by: Dr. Reza Yegani Dr. Mohammad Hossein Sarrafzadeh Mr. Habibollah Ramezanzade by: Kaveh Yazdifard Presented on: 1385/10/3 Contents Acknowledgement Introduction Shikimic Acid & its Natural Properties Derivatives of Shikimic Acid Avian Flu Sickness, Medications Oseltamivir and Shikimic Acid's Role in Synthesis Production of Shikimic Acid Extracting Shikimic Acid

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    Essay Length: 442 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Artur

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