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basic). Rain can get even more acidic than that, especially when pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides come into contact with it (Acids…). Other natural sources like lightning and volcanic ash can reduce the pH of the water as well. Furthermore, man-made pollutants can do its number on the pH. Industrial plants that mine and smelt high-sulfur ores or combust fossil fuels pollute the sky with high amounts of sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which lead to acid rain (Acids…). These…

Many people around the world are wondering what is happening with the changes in weather patterns. A scientist argues that human activity has affected the climate and this has led to a change. The issue of climate change is causing many counties, companies and people to focus on this issue. There are many reasons why global warming exists. The first has to do with the idea that humans are primarily responsible for global warming. Scientist think that human is the caused of global warming. Human…

When fossil fuels are burned and bonds are broken, they can release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and water vapor (H2O). Greenhouse gases contribute to the Greenhouse Gas Effect (main cause of global warming) which traps heat in the atmosphere. With fossil fuels being burned in the last 150 years, there has been a 25% increase in…

common bacterial strains can decompose the thiosulfate solution into sulfite, sulfate, and elemental sulfur. In addition, NaCO3 was also added to create a slightly basic solution, protecting it from rapid decomposition into sulfite and sulfur. The thiosulfate standard was then wrapped and stored in the dark since light can catalyze the decomposition of thiosulfate into sulfite and elemental sulfur. In order to standardize the titrant, KIO3 is dried for 1 hour. The purpose of this step is to…

it up. There is many other volcanic gases. They are destroyed and the ozone layer. There is more they are magma rising in the coal beds. Did you know that greenhouse gas was in there. So there is so many gases. I told you about some of them. Like sulfur,volcanic, greenhouses ,and magma coal beds. There was saltwater in the gases to. The animal species was a great natural disaster in the earth. 250 million years ago the permian period something killed 90 % of the animals.…

Dennise Hernandez Mount Tambora Planet Earth has several types of volcanoes. Some are simply asleep, others are definitely extinct, and many volcanoes have some activity going on, waiting to go into eruption every so often. Among these volcanoes, one is known for its catastrophic damage that caused climate change. Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, had been showing activity since 1812, when it began to rumble and generate a black cloud. In those times, unfortunately, the…

Cells in the human body require many compounds to survive. The main substances found in all living organisms are a mix of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Each of these substances has a different niche as a part of the body, and all of them must either come from the diet or be created using other chemicals in the body. Functions of Carbs Carbohydrates are the preferred source of energy for most of the tissues in the body, including the nervous system and the heart.…

One, developed by the Germans during World War I, involves treating dihydroxyethyl sulfide with HCl gas. The other way was developed earlier and that involved treating ethylene with sulfur chloride and is known as the Levinstein process (Walton, 1996). Both make an oily, liquid like substance that has a distinctive odor described as being like mustard, horseradish, or garlic (Palermo, 2013). It has an LD50, or the concentration of…

particles, floating in the air, is called dry deposition. However, wet deposition is in the form of precipitation. As a result of chemicals being released from human productions, great amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are respired into the atmosphere, where rain and gas matter is polluted. Once both sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide come in contact with water or oxygen, acids are formed. Devastation extremes are directly related to the acidic concentration within deposition. High…

be coccus, in other words circles. They also seemed to be arranged in clusters. I performed the same tests on bacteria two, that I had performed on bacteria one. The first one was the SIM test, my results showed that this bacteria was negative for sulfur reduction, due to the lack of black precipitate. As well as negative for indole, there was no color change. Lastly, it was negative for motility because there was no growth outside of the initial stab. I next performed the phenol red broth…