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    When people fear the unknown, they are unaware of the information that is present. When people take risks they have the potential to become a negative but also a positive situation, which results into fear because we never know the outcome of situations. In the reading, Apology by Plato, He created this reading because his speech defended what he believed in, which was that he is wiser than all men. This defensive system shows that he knows-that he knows nothing thus producing false wisdom as…

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    Acetone Synthesis Essay

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    The purpose of this experiment was to ascertain an unidentified substance. The substance in question was a colorless liquid with an odor resembling acetone. To start with the Tollens’ test was conducted on the unidentified substance to differentiate between an aldehyde and a ketone. The results of the test were negative. This indicated that the substance under consideration was a ketone The next step consisted of determining the melting point of the substance, which was in the range…

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    Over the Garden Wall was a Cartoon Network original miniseries that contained ten episodes that aired in November of 2014. The story follows two brothers, Wirt and Greg, as they travel through The Unknown in order to find a way back home. The Divine Comedy was a poem written by Dante Alighieri from 1308 to 1320 that follows a personification of Dante travelling through Purgatory, Hell and Paradise, or Heaven. Although the two seem unrelated at face value, the miniseries and poem share many…

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    After, then other biochemical tests were performed that were specific to the gram- negative bacteria to start the identification process of the unknown. The results of the gram negative tests lead to the identification of the bacteria Alcaligenes faecalis. The gram stain procedure was the first test performed by isolating a colony from the pure culture streak plate. The gram stain was followed orderly right from the referenced laboratory manual. The test resulted to be Gram- Negative bacteria…

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    5.1 It is always incredible to observe how a civilization can decline, usually taking down academic progress with it just as the founding of civilizations provided the stability to begin study. This case seems less clear cut than most, as the city of Alexandria itself seemed to experience a prosperous and stable period during the Pax Romana, but theoretical studies suffered because the Roman empire brought different values. It is interesting how much of a difference culture made, especially when…

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    Experiment 5: Anions and Redox Reactions Introduction (a) Objectives General: To examine the importance of potassium permanganate as an oxidising agent and the strong powers of halogens in oxidation. Part 1 Determining the colour associated with a certain halogen by adding a sample of the halogen to cyclohexane and recording the colours observed. Part 2 Identifying a halogen referring to the colours recorded in part 1, by reacting the halogen with a halide and observing the colour present.…

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    Chromatography is a chromatographic technique used to separate the components of a mixture using a thin stationary phase substance. It is operated similarly to paper chromatography. Materials Silica Plate, Tweezers & Gloves, Pencil & Ruler Unknown Dye (X), Unknown Dye (Y) & Unknown Dye (X & Y) 3 Pasteur Pipettes & UV Light (Ultra-Violet) Jar or Beaker with Lid Solvent (Ethyl Acetate-Hexane [1:1] is most…

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    Hardness Test Lab Report

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    Error Aluminum Specimen 83.8 83.8 83.1 83.566667 1.71% Unknown Specimen 102.4 101.4 101.7 101.83333 --- Analysis: The Rockwell Hardness Test B produced in very consistent results. The first sample, aluminum, gave an average hardness of 83.567 which is in the aluminum hardness range of 50-96. Matweb had an average value listed as 82.6. This gives a percent error at 1.171% which is low for the usage of an average value. The second sample, unknown, gave an average hardness of 101.833. The…

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    Goldilocks

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    the bears. She is portrayed as the “bad” character in a few instances. In my opinion, she is a very inspiring young lady and the bears scurried her away for no apparent reason. Goldilocks was a good character since she was just hungry, tired, and unknown. To start, Goldilocks was hungry and was searching for food which doesn’t make her a horrible character. Since we don’t know where she was coming from, she may have been starving for days. With a choice of three bowls of porridge, a sample was…

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    he had. This could have leaded to regret if Matt had of been severely hurt or killed. Matt’s dad should not have left him because Matt is young and inexperienced, Colonial Maine is a too uncivilized place for a young boy to be left alone for an unknown amount of time, and finally when his father returned everything worked out fine for Matt but, it could have gone very wrong and his father was uneasy about leaving. When his father returned everything had worked out well for Matt because the…

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