... the single most polluting thing that most of us do." This is not a new problem. In the 1950's the Los Angeles smog made headline news. Car exhaust causes health problems. There are many solutions to the problem. Laws were enacted as long as twenty years ago to control pollution caused by cars. Since then laws have ... health of the people who live in the United States. Some solutions to the problem are: cutting down on the number of cars, traveling at steady speeds, and keeping your car in good shape. You should never over fill your gas tank. You should always use clean gas. People sho...

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... it is likely that the resource will become non-renewable or even non-existent. The major causes of environmental degradation include deforestation, pollution, desertification and natural causes. Deforestation Overview Forests cover approximately 31% of the Earth's surface and produce vital oxygen and provide shelter for animals. It provides us with many benefits, including producing goods such as timber ... the clearing of deep peatlands in the Sumatra (western Indonesia) has contributing to increased greenhouse gas emission in Indonesia, which leads to the decreased availability of food...

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... benefit the owners. Air pollution due to cars affects the air we breathe, the ozone layer, water, and soil. Driving a gas run car involves combustion of fossil fuels where gases are emitted that affect the environment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than half of ... air pollution in the USA is caused by mobile sources, mainly automobiles (EPA). When a car's engine is on, gases are emitted into the air such as carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas, hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ... cars differ from gasoline cars in many ways. Standard...

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... oxidants and water vapor in the atmosphere, and convert into nitric and sulfuric acids. Then as they fall towards the earth they mix with rain, fog, snow, or other things. Car coatings are damaged from all sorts of acid rain, but mostly when dry acidic deposition is mixed with dew or rain. Some ways to minimize the occurrence are to wash ... your car often and hand dry it, cover your car with a hood, and use protective coatings that can protect the original coatings or finish. Industries that do automobile coatings know about the damage from acid rain ... to damage your automobile. Aci...

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... could never harm the Earth, if there was a car where you would never have to pay for gas, would you buy it? These cars are Electric Vehicles or EVs. Electric Vehicles have many benefits. They are environmentally friendly, not ... about $130/week! So if you don't want to pay for parking, buying an Electric Vehicle would be just right for you. EVs are well built so that means the car doesn't break down and you won't have to replace them. EVs also cost low to operate. It is estimated 2 cents/1.6km. Not only are EVs eco-friendly and inexpensive, they ... start when driving, then EVs are t...

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... day. Another filtration option, is the use of activated charcoal filters, which can also be described as activated carbon filters because of the main component of carbon in charcoal. An overview provided by the University of Nebraska on the website ianrpubs.unl.edu, states that this filtration process is useful when it comes removing impurities such as chlorine and organic compounds ... ...

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Have you ever seen a spaceship before launch? If you so I"m sure you have noticed the two cylindrical objects with the cone tops mounted on the side of the space shuttle. Those are Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs). SRBs are very useful to do many tasks. Not only does NASA use the technology of SRBs, they are used every where, even a long time ago. Did you know that SRBs were the first engines created by man? They were invented hundreds of years ago in China and have been used ever since. Even in the National Anthem the line about "the rocket's red glare" is talking about small military SRBs. Let's...

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The Global Carbon Cycle USGCRP Program Element The Global Carbon Cycle Overview Recent Accomplishments Near-Term Plans New Postings Archived Postings Related Sites Calls for Proposals For long term plans, see Carbon Cycle chapter of the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change ... ...

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... for our own good. The only other know portable energy we have that keeps its surroundings clean is the battery. There are some large disadvantages to using an electric car opposed to a gas car. The cost of batteries is much higher than gas, and you can't get very far even on a full batter (40 or more miles). But: Technology is always advancing ... , but worldwide. Some scientists say that the pollution we cause is killing the planet quite literally. According to a recent survey, about 90% of people would travel 300-500 miles in a car rather than a plane. This shows that people in general...

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Car accidents can prove to be fatal. However, with the proper safety measures, fatality can be avoided. Seatbelts can save your life, as well as airbags. An airbag is a big that ... . Airbags are complex, and a necessity to life. When two or more cars collide, force is exerted. This force is measured in an electronic sensor in the tunnel of the car. If the car decelerates at more than twenty-eight kilometers per hour, then the ignitor will trigger the gas generator, which will start a chemical reaction in the airbag. The airbag is connected ... very complex. They have different reactions and...

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... 12 days. Also in the article they explained the specifications of the automobile on the outside, as well as what exactly a methanol fuel cell is and how it makes the car move. There were a couple of things I already had prior knowledge of. What I've already known is how the hydrogen is separated from the methanol by the system's onboard reformer. It ... is the hydrogen that is the actual "fuel" of the fuel cell, allowing the cell to create electricity, which in turn powers the electric motor that moves the car. What I didn't know, and to me was extremely interesting was the hydrogen, co...

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... is powered by the pressure made from the air and fuel mixture. In order to create this pressure, the engine only requires 10 milligrams of gasoline per one combustion stroke. A car uses a fuel mixture of 12:1 ratio of air and fuel under normal operations (Halderman Automotive 195). Sometimes the fuel/air mixture can be lean or rich. When the mixture is ... lean, the fuel ratio is considered lower than what is required. Rich mixtures have more fuel than the combustion process requires. With a rich fuel mixture, the car runs very smokily, or poorly. During any of these conditions, vehicle...

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... bed. "I I I can't breathe" I whispered while desperately gasping for oxygen. My mother had instantly noticed the reading on the volumeter and called my local doctor. It was not long until the car started to travel towards the man who was supposively meant to help ease my breathing. After a round of testing and searching for the problem, the doctor came to a conclusion that ... to the Royal Children's Hospital ER. Due to the financial restriction my mother declined to use the phone to call an ambulance. It was to be a long journey in the car and soon after my eyelids became heavy. I was ...

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... Folker Your walking alone in the woods one day and you realize it is about to rain soon. So you hurry as you try to make it back to your car before the rain comes, but as you are running you hear the little thumps on the leaves in the trees above you. Then you feel a sharp burning sensation on your ... our part to the fight. We must make more awareness of the problem and as citizens, to reduce sulfur and nitrogen emission we must reduce the use of fossil fuels. Car pools, public transportation, or walking can reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Acid rain is a big problem. Not only does it ...

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... me and always cared for me. One memory that will never change in my mind is a memory from a little over a year ago. On the night of November 12, 2002, I had a car wreck on a corner of the JJ highway, just outside of Marceline. In this wreck, my head went through the side window, and bent out the door. This put the dent ... I now have in my head and, of course, gave me a concussion. In this wreck, I completely totaled my car. As I was coming to, I remember feeling as if I was awaking from a sleep, to hand a phone to a highway patrolman and lay down on a stretcher. I then remember them gi...

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... caused death in many animal species and changed the life of many peoples. Now, thousands of years later, the earth is starting to heat up again. This may be from car exhaust, factory fumes and the cutting down of rain forests. This might cause many problems for our planet such as higher water levels that might eventually cover entire islands. Other ... of a tree. Trees take in CO2 and give out oxygen into the air. When people start cutting down and killing trees, the more we should worry about factory fumes, and car exhaust. When people cut down trees, they arent just stopping the produ...

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... less deformed and rounded-(Miller). Some manufacturers of motor vehicles have had top paint their cars with acid resistant paint which can protect the car against the corrosive affects of acid rain, at an average cost of 5 per car produced in the Scandinavian countries which is a total of £61 million per year on top of all new cars sold in the ... ...

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... secondary school students, which questioned their modes of transport travelling to and from school. Of the people questioned it showed that just 1 in 4 students caught the bus and for both car pooling and walking, it was just one in 12. As for the people who were driven to school (over 50%) six in every seven had the option of catching a bus ... concerning pollutants produced by cars can, and will pose enormous threats to the future of our environment. It has been predicted from past recordings, that within the next thirty years car usage will double resulting in an increase of pollutio...

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... take for granted or just haven't noticed it was there, The usage of copper is in increasing, in the 1970s a car was made up of 35 pounds of copper and today it has increased to about 50 - 90 pounds of copper in 1 car. The Gold Industry is also a big industry today, golds main uses are in coinage, jewellery, electronics, dentistry and decorative ... ...

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... less deformed and rounded. Some manufacturers of motor vehicles have had top paint their cars with acid resistant paint which can protect the car against the corrosive affects of acid rain, at an average cost of £5 per car produced in the Scandinavian countries which is a total of £61 million per year on top of all new cars sold in the ... ...

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... . This planet is called the morning star and the evening star. Long ago, the morning star was called Phosphorus or Lucifer and the evening star was called Hesperus. Venus is named after the goddess of love in ancient Rome. Its rocky surface traps the suns heat, making Venus the hottest planet. The approximent temperature is about 900 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmosphere ... the sun. The planet Mars orbits the sun at a distance of about 228 million miles or 141 million miles. It is only half the size of the Earth. Mars is named for the Roman god of war. This planet always looks fiery red in...

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... of Paris, and designing the new method for saltpeter. Saltpeter is potassium or sodium nitrate. He married the daughter of a tax farmer. She was a young, beautiful thirteen-year-old girl named Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze. She prepared herself to be her husband's scientific collaborator by learning English to translate the work of British chemists like Joseph Priestley and by studying art ... the "air- responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity. He disproved phlogiston theory by demonstrating that oxygen is required for combustion, rusting, and respiration. The next year h...

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... closest to the double bond. Then use the prefix stem to indicate the number of carbons in the chain and add the suffix v/s ene to the end. Ex. H H H H | | | | H v/s C ===C --- C --- C v/s H | | | | H H H H is named 1-butene H H H H | | | | H v/s C -----C == C --- C v/s H | | | | H H H H is named 2-butene For chains that contain two double bonds, list the location of the two double bonds and use the suffix v/s diene at the end. Æ'o Alkynes v/s hydrocarbons in which there ... ...

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... reactions as combinations of elements to form new materials, or products. He concluded that combustion results from the rapid chemical union of a flammable material with a newly discovered gas, which he named oxygen, previously known as "dephilogisticated air."" The word "oxygen- means acid producer. Lavoisier and others had found that oxygen is a part of several acids. Lavoisier incorrectly reasoned that oxygen is ... as biochemistry. Lavoisier also helped to develop a system for naming chemical substances based on their composition. This system is still in use. He made the very first ...

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... for water-maker and from the Greek words hudar meaning water and gennen meaning generate was first recognized as a distinct substance in 1776 by Henry Cavendish. The gas was named hydrogen by a man named Antoine Lavoisier. In nature hydrogen is found in water. It is combined with oxygen particles to create h2o (water). Hydrogen is also found is most forms of organic ... ...

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