Anaconda Copper

You think summer is hot, think again. Although copper is a common metal known to man, there may be a few interesting details that you did not know about the element. Such as how hot you must heat copper before it melts into liquid form, or how the smallest dose of copper could make a major impact on your health. The uses of this metal could open up new opportunities and inspire new innovations that may have not been thought of before. Copper dates back almost ten thousand years and has been a…

Copper, also known as red metal, is one of the basic chemical elements. It was the first metal used by Neolithic humankind to supplement for stone tools dating back more than 10,000 years. Copper comes from copper ore, which is dug from the earth is melted and shaped into desired shape. Hydrothermal, heated water deep in earth’s crust seeps through cracks and fissures and dissolves certain minerals in the rocks, is the process that form copper. The mineral is carried along with hot water…

Theophrastus is a Greek philosopher who lived during 371-287 B.C. Pliny the Elder during AD 23-79 was a Roman author, naturalist and naturalist philosopher. During this period there were 86 known metals.The first discovery of metals were Gold (Au) and Copper (Cu). Then four other metals were discovered. They were called Arsenic (As), Antimony( Sb),Bismuth (Bi) and Zinc (Zn).While the metals where discovered naturalists…

I am Kylee Skutar, but you may know me as Professor Calleta. I have always had an interest in bugs especially caterpillars. Then one day there was a terrible tornado. I had been in my car and one second I was on the ground, the next in the center of the tornado, then back down. I awoke in the hospital around midnight and they said they gave me a medicine made of Calleta silkmoth. That night I had a hard time falling asleep, I knew that I was no longer a human. I felt different, like if I moved…

On 02 March 2002, Operation Anaconda launched. The primary objective was total destruction of the Taliban an al Qaeda that have bedded into the Shah-i-Kot Valley in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. US Special Operation Forces (SOF) had been closely monitoring for over a month that a large population of Taliban fighters where bedded in the valley. In February, the order came down to the Afghanistan ground force commander MG Hagenback to clear out the evident…

“Silent Professional” is a term used often when referencing the Special Operations community. It means do not brag about what you have done or where you have been, because secrecy is your only true ally. Every night since the World Trade Center towers fell, there have been Soldiers overseas taking the fight to those responsible. Night after night, these nameless warriors have been planning and conducting covert operations in hostile areas all over the world without fail. The only time the…

long less Zinc became visible at the bottom of the beaker. Copper became visible at the bottom of the beaker all at the same time. The bottom of the beaker released bubbles, or hydrogen gas, from the reaction. The reaction for this particular experiment is a single replacement reaction. This means that a single element replaces a second element in a compound. The reaction is shown…

documentary Stealing Africa. Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s intention of this film was to show the world of Zambia’s extinct copper mining tax return. He is informing us that Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, which owns Mopani Copper Mines, is cheating the government of Zambia and not supplying that country with the tax funds they rightfully deserve. Zambia is known to have the third largest copper reserve in the world, but somehow the citizens of Zambia live on less than one dollar a day and eighty…

When I signed up to take Stained Glass, I did not know what to expect. I had a vague idea that maybe we would make some glass and solder it together to create a window. I thought it would be an simplistic quick process, but I soon learned that my assumptions were wrong. After finishing my heart, I started to realize that Stained Glass is a very serious and complex artform. However, I did not fully realize the amount of dedication and hard work required to create this art until finishing my first…

There was a store on the corner of Benson and Terrace Ave. Most who walked past pay little attention, for it was old and beaten down. The brick structure was covered in old faded graffiti with cracked windows and no sign to say it was open. Teenagers would dare each other to go in at night but none of them ever came back. So the store on the corner of Zwing and Terrance Avenue stayed where it was with police tape surrounding the cracked brick. However, to the people inside it was beautiful. The…