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Comparing Your Options For Replacement Windows If you're looking into replacement windows for your home, you can choose from wood, aluminum, or vinyl. You'll want to consider the appearance of the frame and how well it insulates against heat loss. Here's a look at how these windows compare. Wood Frames Are Traditional If you have an older, historic home, then wood frames are probably the best type because they have a more traditional appearance. Wood is the original material for window frames…

Discussion: In sample, B there was 16% salt, which is unnaturally higher than the global average of 3.5%. When I asked about the reason of this, I found that the water was artificially created. This was also the case of Sample, A which had 9% of salt. That is about 3x the amount of salt from the global average. All though this is not an experiment with data, that we can apply to real life, it was still great fun to do the experiment and the lessons I learnt will stick with me for a long time.…

chemicals is often hydrogen peroxide and the other active ingredient is a harmless chemical named phenyl oxalate ester. The chemical reaction between these two substances produces enough energy to make light, but it doesn't create enough energy to make heat or explosions. There also need to be dye in a glow stick. The glow stick gets color when the energy created by the chemical reaction gets the molecules of the dye moving. There are two internal capsules that separate the chemicals. One is…

Over 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage and industrial waste are dumped into US water each year. Because of this, about 40% lakes are too contaminated for aquatic life, fishing or even for swimming in America. It’s disappointing how every eight seconds a child dies from drinking contaminated water. Also, it hurts how thousands of marine creatures die by swallowing plastic bags thinking they are jellyfishes. Terry Swearingen once said, “We are living on the planet as if we have another one…

"Lead author Jenna R. Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, and her colleagues estimated that, altogether, these 192 countries produce some 275 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Of that volume, about 4.8-12.7 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste is thought to have entered the ocean in 2010" (Tibbetts). Not enough people know the amount of plastic that enters the ocean each year and how dangerous it actually is. "In 2012 the United States…

Weather and season together are used as a metaphor to reflect characters’ inner feelings and set the tone of the crucial point in the development of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. The rain and sunshine when Gatsby and Daisy first meet after five years reflect Gatsby’s nervousness at first and set the emotional tone of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy from embarrassment to comfort in chapter 5. As a very crucial point in the novel, the setting of Gatsby and Daisy’s first…

Thermodynamics highlights the stream of science attentive to heat and conversions to different forms of energy and work. Not only does the thermodynamic state define volume, temperate and pressure, it will contain heat sources giving a capacity, and change state. The idea of thermodynamics is for the system to adjust itself back into its original state of an equilibrium. Through expressing the laws of thermodynamics, it is apparent that heat energy is important in the world in order to achieve…

The binding factor in nearly all kinds of power plants is how the power is actually produced: something heats water, turning it into steam, which then turns a turbine that generates electricity. The differentiating factor in the differents forms of power plants is how that water is heated. Nuclear plants fancy splitting atoms, coal plants burn coal, and geothermal plants skip the middle man, let Earth do the heating, and simply reap the benefits. Below the surface of Earth is a layer of rock so…

specific heat capacity of a substance? It is the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of one gram of a body by one Kelvin unit, expressed as J/K/g. The specific heat capacity also can be measured in J/K/Kg and J/K/mol. Substance Specific heat Capacity (J/K/g) Water 4.18 acetone 2.17 hexane 2.26 Compare the specific heat capacity of water with a range of other solvents. The table compares the heat capacities of water and two other solvents. Compare the specific heat capacity…

life. Whether they know or not, everyone is constantly using some form of energy. Everything from walking, eating, and sleeping are all utilizing energy in different ways. Even applying ice to keep a glass of water cold is exerting a form of energy (“Heat Transfer”). Just like everything else, even ice releases a form of energy when put in water. This type of energy is a mix of convection and conduction. Convection is when thermal energy is transferred from one hot…