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Fish have a what? How does it work?
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A natural anti-freeze. By lowering the freezing point of its blood and other body fluids
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What would happen if a fish's blood froze inside its body?
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Sharp ice crystals would break the cell membranes and damage would be done
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How do the supercooled lake bottom waters remain unfrozen, even at temperatures below 0°C?
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Flowing water currents prevent ice crystals from from forming
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In car anti-freeze, what is an active ingredient, how about in a fishes natural anti-freeze
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Car is in the Ethylene glycol. Fishes are glycol protein.
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What is distillation?
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When freshwater is made out of saltwater
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What are three benefits of air conditioning
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Comfort, and more business centers in very hot states. Also, the ozone layer of the air is damaged, but it is a benefit because it protects us from sun rays that are intense
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What are some problems with air conditioning?
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More sickness, radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
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What could make a reflecting telescope provide a better image?
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The curved glass mirrors could be replaced by spinning dishes of mercury
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Mercury is highly reflective. What had to happen to smooth out the bumps?
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Air bearings were used
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How does the toxic mercury vapor not kill scientists
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A layer of mercury oxide forms and contains the toxic mercury vapor
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Long ago, what was the long and slow process of sugar refining? By doing this, what did the sugar come out like?
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Boiled sugarcane juice would be poured from one cattle to another. Then, this was heated to crystalization. By doing this, the sugar came out caramalized and dark
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Why did the sugar come out like this?
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Because you couldn't control the temperature in the kettles
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What did Norbert Rilliex do?
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He produced a better sugar using only half of the fuel!
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