Carbon steel

necessary to accomplish our goals. But now we know how to use energy more efficiently, how to do more, with less. Which means getting dramatically more work out of less energy with better technology. If we take this initial step, in addition to reducing carbon pollution, we would also have the very welcome dividend, in the form of economic stimulus because we would be reducing energy bills. We know how to capture energy cleanly through sun light, wind, tides and the heat of the earth’s core. We…

Once a living thing dies, the carbon dating process begins. As long as an organism is alive it will continue to take in 14C or radio carbon; however, when it dies, it will stop. Since 14C is radioactive (decays into 14N), the amount of 14C in a dead organism gets less and less over time. Therefore, part of the dating process involves measuring the amount of 14C that remains after some has decayed. Scientists now use a device called AMS (don't know what it stands for) to figure out the ratio of…

Can you breathe? Inhale deeply; do you feel the oxygen filling your lungs with every breath? As you sit there, a small child sits in another room breathing in the same oxygen that expands and contracts from their tiny lungs, but not long ago those tiny lungs were at an even more miniscule scale of size and the small child was in the arms of a loving mother, wife to a dear husband. Their love is blatant, yet no amount of care and happiness can shield them from the air around them, for all need…

In his article, A Carbon Tax Beats a Vacuum Ban, Slavov suggests an alternative to the problematic uncontrolled and hazardous release of carbon emissions that pollute the atmosphere, a tax on carbon emissions. He exclusively focuses on the contention around vacuum cleaners and the possible ban of vacuum cleaners using more than 1,600 watts of power, “with the limit slated to be lowered to 900 watts by 2017”. Though seemingly a reasonable ban, Slavov uses logical reasoning, convincing evidence,…

The role of sodium citrate is to reduce silver nitrate to silver (1). The role of D-glucose was to reduce silver nitrate into just silver, while soluble starch stabilizes the nanoparticles by surrounding them to prevent aggregation (1, 2, 3). The 1 M NaOH, 1 M HCl, and 1 M NaCl caused Batch A to aggregate. The nanoparticles aggregated with these reagents because these are all strong bases or strong acids, which dissociates completely and interacts with the oxidized citrate that separate the…

I looked at the carbon cycle and discovered that I did affect this cycle in ways that I had not imagined. Of course I was aware that I do produce carbon just by breathing and perspiring. There are other ways that I did produce carbon that were subtle and did affect the carbon cycle too. The carbon cycle is very important in maintaining a balance in our planet. It helps to sustain life on the planet as we know it. This cycle happens on its own, but we have somehow altered it in many ways.…

1. Which one of the following would make the most suitable catalyst in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)? A. Carbon dioxide (CO2) B. Sodium chloride (NaCl) C. Magnesium oxide (MgO) D. Manganese dioxide (MnO2) 2. If the temperature of a reaction is decreased, what effect will this have on the rate of reaction? A. It will have no effect. B. The reaction will stop. C. The rate of reaction will increase. D. The rate of reaction will decrease. 3. Given the equilibrium reaction in a closed…

Incomplete Carbon Glucose Preparation for sulfonated solid acid catalyst must undergo a process which is called carbonization or pyrolysis. Glucose is natural organic compounds had been used as starting raw material because it is cheap and less toxic. Carbonization is an important step before the sulfonation process because it will form amorphous carbon composed of small carbon sheets [B] and produced sites for sulfonic group to be attached or inserted into the small of non-graphitic carbon…

INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background The phrase "carbon sequestration" refers to efforts to capture excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, condense it, and store it in some benign way (Kirschbaum, 2003). In the same note, carbon sequestration is the removal of the CO2 from the atmosphere by storing it in the biosphere. Forests are known as standing stores of sequestered atmospheric carbon. Given the increased importance of a forest ecosystem as valuable carbon pool, it draws significant…

Ocean acidification is negatively affecting our oceans and its marine inhabitants. Ocean acidification is a naturally occurring process where ocean water absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The chemical process of water molecules binding to carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid and frees hydrogen ions causing an increase in acidity. Marine animals can’t survive in water that is too acidic. Marine ecosystems are detrimentally affected by this chemical reaction. The long-term consequences…