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    The Analysis of “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum The Analysis of “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum Austin Shufflebarger Pickens Academy Introduction “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum is a detailed biography about murder and the birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age of New York City, along with going over various poisons and toxins it also delivers interesting biographies as well as an in-depth look into the court cases and scientific discoveries…

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    Radon Research Paper

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    paints, and building materials like gypsum board, concrete block, wood paneling, and most insulations. Radon was discovered by Ernest Rutherford and Robert B. Owens in 1899. Friedrich Ernst Dorn, who was a recognized German chemist, discovered that radium was releasing a gas in 1900 while studying radium’s decay chain. Radon has been known as radon since 1923, however, it used to be originally named “niton” which means “shining”…

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    In the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot first presents us with various descriptions about HeLa cells, such as “immortal” and “never dies”. Thus, these distinct attributes that tremendously prolonged the life of of HeLa cells make the cells become one of the most significant tools in medical fields, such as cancer treatment, vaccine development, etc. As a person who learned biology in the past, Skloot knew the facts about HeLa cells, and they conduce to the whole world;…

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    In a world full of critics, stereotypes, and sexists, women have struggled for many centuries in the depths of a dark cavern that has deprived them from freely being whom they are. However, similar to Shakur’s “Rose that grew from the concrete”, women have recently blossomed in a compressed environment cracking open all the oppressions that kept them in the dark. The roots of these unique roses have been extended through the worlds of the arts, the fields of sports, the labs of science, and the…

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    Marie Curie did all sorts of things from helping in World War I to making prodigious discoveries, she had many different accomplishments, many of which helped technology advance just a little bit further. Marie Curie was a very inspirational woman to many, and still is today. She is still recognized for many of her discoveries and deeds she volunteered, all for science. Marie Curie gave her all to science with knowledge, inspiration, hard work, and patience. Marie Curie’s early life was very…

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    Have you ever made a mistake before? Of course you have! Everyone makes mistakes, but sometimes those errors can be big. Mistakes have caused the ancient city of Troy to be destroyed, and they tend to cause more damage than they do progress, additionally even when there is a big discovery made by mistake, the very same people who made the discovery have to keep working for years for it to actually be of any use to anybody. Troy. The grand city spoken of by the great poet Homer. Once complete,…

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    not only impacted the world of medicine ,but also impacted chemistry by finding two new elements: radium and polonium. Curie not only discovered the radioactive elements ,but also proved her theory on the structure of an atom. According to the biography, Marie Curie chemistry, physics and radioactivity by Michelle Feder it states, “She suggested that the powerful rays, or energy, the polonium and radium gave off were actually particles from tiny atoms that were disintegrating inside the…

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    particles (γ) are the most known types of radioactive decay despite the fact that there are some more. Alpha decay, α, composes of two neutrons and two protons making alpha particles similar the nucleus of helium. Large components, for example, uranium, radium, and thorium have a greater number of neutrons than they have protons which aids alpha decay to happen. At the point when another atom is made the mass number decreases by four and its atomic number by two after the core discharges an…

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    Page 15 of 18 Forever Unintelligible Gardner allows that humans have wonderful brains, that we can invent thinking machines, microscopes and any number of intelligence-enhancers, but he says there are still limits, hard limits. Just as "there is no way to teach calculus to a chimp, or even make it understand the square root of 2," he writes, "surely there are truths as far beyond our grasp as our grasp is beyond that of a cow." He concedes that once upon a time humans were chimp-like and over…

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    Tritium Research Paper

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    production named Mark Oliphant and Paul Harteck. He also needed some help with being able to isolate Tritium, so he also needed help from Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog. Tritium is a waste product from nuclear power plants and is less dangerous than radium. Radium was used for illuminating light, but scientists found out that it can cause cancer. Now, Tritium is used for producing…

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