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Larger Water Bottle
1,192 wordsThe Gravity Bong was introduced to the gravity bong by a friend. He told me the full name as described to him was the 'Afghanistan Gravity Bong'. We were sitting around one night and decided to try one out. While I could go into detail concerning the mechanics of the bong " so peration, I don't think that is really necessary. The reason it is called a'gravity bong' and not something else is this is what someone called it, that is how they described it to their friends, and now it is an accepted ...
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Scuba Diving And The Search
3,108 wordsThe underwater world has always fascinated me. This is why I decided to become a certified scuba diver for my Senior Project. Because scuba diving is something I had never experienced before, this gave me the opportunity to challenge myself and broaden my horizons. I was placed in an unusual and scary environment and I attempted skills that I had just learned moments before. Not only did I obtain skills in an activity I may pursue in the future, but I also learned a lot about myself and how I re...
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Pressure Outside The Air Space
4,720 wordsThe Physics Of Scuba Diving: Swimming with the Fish Have you ever wondered what it would be like to swim with the fish and explore the underwater jungle that covers two-thirds of the earth's surface I have always been interested in water activities; swimming, diving and skiing, and I felt that scuba was for me. My first dive took place while on a family vacation. I came across a dive shop offering introductory dives, which immediately caught my interest. After much convincing (my parents), with ...
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Air Swirls Around A Tornado Center
638 wordsHurricanes get their start over the warm tropical waters of the North Atlantic Ocean near the equator. Most hurricanes appear in late summer or early fall, when sea temperatures are at their highest. The warm waters heats the air above it, and the updrafts of warm, moist air begin to rise. Day after day the fluffy cumuli form atop the updrafts. But the cloud tops rarely rise higher than about 6,000 feet. At that height in the tropics, there is usually a layer of warm, dry air that acts like an i...
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Dive Knife In Case The Diver
2,027 wordsMany people think of scuba diving as just a swim in the water, but in reality it is a very exciting, dangerous, and potentially fatal sport and activity. There are many types of scuba diving, ranging from recreational to sport to career diving. Scuba Diving is just not a swim in the water, scuba requires certification, uses technical equipment, and there is a lot of risk involved with scuba diving. Scuba, which is actually an acronym for "self-contained breathing apparatus", Allows divers to div...
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Causes For Water Pollution
481 wordsEnvironmental Problem sIn today's environment Palm Beach County alone faces many environmental problems, which can turn disastrous if not taken care of. Included in these problems are air pollution, water contamination, and urban explosion. Air pollution is a major factor threatening our health and our environment. Due to the pollutants that circulate in the air, many people can come into contact with cancer causing gases. Atmospheric contaminants are derived from human practices, such as gas fr...
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Water Treatment
651 words"Water treatment " My topic for this paper is on water treatment and in this paper the places where i will be getting my info is web and I'm getting info from and encyclopedia an a book. In a modern society, water is one of the things in life we often take for granted. When we turn on the tap, we expect water that is clean, safe and suitable for all household tasks. But in recent years, there has been a growing concern about contamination of our water supplies. We hear unsettling news accounts t...
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Air Water Temperature Experiment
2,638 wordsINTRODUCTION - Since its introduction to the New Jersey shore in 1988, the western Pacific shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus has spread to inhabit rocky intertidal locations along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina (McDermott 1998). Many reasons have been proposed to explain the rapid spread of this non-indiginous species. For example, it has been shown that H. sanguineus has longer spawning periods along the mid-Atlantic coast than it does in its natural habitat in the west...
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Water Nears The Boiling Point
363 wordsI went online and found out a lot of information about boiling water. If you cover the tin and allow the water and air to cool down, the air will cool and contract, lowering the pressure in the tin. If it lowers enough, the partial vacuum will collapse the walls of the can! The boiling point definitely reduces with air pressure. There is a famous demonstration where boiling water or coffee is drunk, the trick is it was in a vacuum chamber where it boiled at room temperature. The actual definitio...
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Oxygen Content Of Air
543 wordsOxygen content of air Objective: To measure the percent of oxygen in air and the percent of oxygen in an exhale of a breath Hypothesis: Air has more oxygen content in it rather than the exhale of a human breath. Procedure: Wash hands to remove oils Obtain 2 samples of steel wool (. 7 g each) Expose one sample of the wool to 35 mL of vinegar solution for 1 minute Remove the wool from the solution and shake it to remove the vinegar Place the steel wool in a syringe. Put the plunger in the syringe ...
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Air Pollution Like Water Pollution
1,809 wordsAir, like water is essential for life. Air pollution, like water pollution is a problem that threatens us all. We are all aware that air and water are the most precious of all our natural resources. We need clean air and accessible water to carry on normal life functions. In past generations, the amounts of fuels burned in home and industry have greatly increased. This increased burning has also increased the amount of impurities discharged into the air. And since a pollutant is an impurity, we ...
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One Dolphin
608 wordsDolphins are playful and cleverness make them fascinating to watch. Dolphins are not fish they are mammals that live in the sea. They have to come to the top of the water every half minute, so they can breathe. But dolphins can stay under the water for six or seven minutes, if he holds his breath. The dolphin breathes in his head because he has a blow hole in his head that allows him to breathe. Dolphins have a lot of teeth to help them eat. Each dolphin has almost one hundred teeth in his mouth...
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Your Partners Air During A Dive
2,700 wordsThe Underwater World "There you are, totally weightless, quietly soaring just above the sea floor with only the smallest amount of physical exertion. Small fish come out of their holes to look at you. How about that You are the curiosity. You are the thing that does not belong. Perhaps this is why you dive. You are taking part in exploring man's last ecological frontier. The very thought would excite anyone whose blood still flows in his veins. The diver is the observer, he looks at everything h...
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Air Water Mixtures The Wet Bulb Temperature
4,541 wordsExperiment #1 Pre lab Proposal Wednesday, September 15 COOLING TOWER PERFORMANCE Jonathan Metres and Shal in Sanjanwala Submitted to Professor Muthanna Al-Dahhan Teaching Assistant Novica Radios Chemical Engineering Laboratory - I ChE 374 Fall 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Table of Contents i Notation ii List of Figures Introduction 1 Objectives 2 Experimental Set-Up 2 Experimental Procedure and Data Collection 3 Theory and Calculation Procedure 6 References 15 NOTATION Letter Symbols a Contact ar...
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Water Move
792 wordsEverything is made up of elements Modern elements are less evocative but more numerous, they make up just over one hundred basic substances All things consist of particles called atoms The way molecules behave governs the workings of many machines, such as ships, airplanes, pumps, refrigerators, and combustion engines. Molecules of gases are so hyperactive that they will fill any space open to them In liquids, the molecules are less energetic and go haphazardly around in small groups In a solid,...
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Hot Water
531 wordsLegionnaire's Disease Case study: Legionnaire's Disease and Saunas. Causative organism: Legionella pneumophila Acquired name: First recognized in 1976 when an outbreak of a respiratory disease occurred among many delegates of the American Legion members attending a convention in Philadelphia. 182 people contracted pulmonary disease and 29 died. Characteristics: Small, thin microbe (2-10 micrometers in length). Cell wall-high lipopolysaccharide content. Gram negative aerobic rod (bacillus). Facul...
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Pressure Changes In Air Pressure
1,232 wordsBeing that we are the third rock from the sun, we constantly are interacting with its' atmosphere and weather. Meteorology plays a constant role in our everyday lifestyle. It affects us as individuals also businesses such as agriculture as well as travel. It is important to understand the fundamentals of how this meteorology system works. First of we all know that the sun gives out heat. Along with the heat the sun also sends out energy in the form as solar radiation. Solar radiation can pass th...
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Harmful Gases Into The Air
990 wordsOur planet is in danger. Humans have been living on this planet for two million years and in the last two hundred years humans have made a mess of the planet: chopped trees, killed animals, polluted air, water and soil, etc. That is why now we have a lot of ecological problems like the greenhouse effect, extinct and endangered animals and plants, water, air and soil pollution, holes in the ozone layer, problems of burying different kinds of waste and garbage, acid rains and others. The Earth has...
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Lightning And Hail Thunderstorms
1,727 wordsFormation of Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hail and Blizzards Thunderstorms Thunderstorms are formed when temperature imbalances are present in the atmosphere. They are a violent example of convection. The warming of the air near the earth and / or the cooling of the air above puts the warmer lighter layers below the colder denser layers. This causes instability and convection overturns the layers. The colder, denser air sinks below the warmer lighter air which is rising rapidly. The same conditions...
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Present For A Nail To Rust
310 wordsAn Investigation Of The Factors Affecting Rusting An Investigation Of The Factors Affecting Rusting Of Iron PLAN Background Information Only Iron and steel rust. Other metals corrode. Rusting is an oxidation process. Rust is a flaky red-brown solid which is largely hydrated iron. Prediction I think that the nail in the test tube with air and water in it will be the only one to rust. The other nails will not rust that much. Apparatus 4 test tubes, 4 nails, cooking oil, water, silica gel, boiled w...
