The Importance of Toxicology
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This 4 page paper defines and explores toxicology. It explains how toxic substances affect people in their daily lives. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Importance of Water
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This 5 page paper looks at the properties of water and its life sustaining functions. Various benefits of water exercise are duly noted. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Risks of Malathion
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This 4 page paper discusses some of the risks associated with the use of the pesticide malathion. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Specifics of Color: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration
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A 6 page discussion of color. The author examines color and our perception of it from both a scientific and a cultural standpoint. A discussion is included on how the light spectrum relates to color and how techniques such as infrared photography can be used to more carefully explore color. Details on how color relates to our biological, chemical, and physical world as well as to own behavior is included. Information on how a chameleon changes color, how gemstones vary in color according to their chemical composition, and how color in our environment is currently believed to be capable of affecting our behavior and our performance. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Water cousins: Fluorine and Fluoride
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( 5 pp.) One of the "stories" that was associated with the Cold War, long ago and far away, was that those sneaky Communists were going to put fluoride in the water and destroy us all. I thought the issue had collapsed with the Berlin wall, but the beat goes on -this time we are also being told of the seventeenth element in the earth's crust fluorine. This discussion will look at some of the positives and negatives of those "fluoro-cousins." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Water: Its Chemistry and Biological Importance
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A 5 page description of water. The author describes the chemical phenomena that make water so critical from a biological standpoint. A brief history on temperature measurement with specifics of the distinction between the Fahrenheit scale, the Celsius scale, and the Kelvin scale is provided as well. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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World-Changing Science
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A 3 page paper discussing paradigm-changing contributors such as Max Planck, William Thomson and C.F. Mirbel, and how their scientific findings have benefited society as a whole. Planck’s quantum theory, Thomson’s thermodynamics and Mirbel’s founding of cell biology all continue to affect life and science today. The collective work of these and many others have brought us to a point where we can begin to gain an understanding of how much we still do not know, while benefiting society in the meantime. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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WRITING OF A SCIENCE PAPER
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This 3-page tutorial guides the student on how to write a science paper, more specifically, an abstract. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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