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…against nuclear testing after WW II. Linus presented a petition to the U.N signed by 11,000 scientists. This led to the U.S.-Soviet test-ban treaty. This led to Linus winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Later on in his career he looked into medical issues like…

…it is a nuclear reaction. One example is a cold fusion cell which used .04 grams of metal hydride. It produced 86 megajoules over a two month period. A similar chemical reaction would have required 2,000 grams of chemicals to produce the same amount of energy…

…Air Pollution Air, is the most essential element for all living organisms and yet, most humans play a big role on polluting this essential resource. Air pollution may not be as dangerous in its direct outcome as nuclear or water pollution can…

…medically for its astringent and antiseptic properties. Boron carbide is used as an abrasive and alloying agent. Boron is used in instruments designed to detect and count slow neutrons, it is employed as a control absorber in nuclear reactors…

…In October 1962 USA discovered Soviet nuclear bases on Cuba. This was only seventy miles away from the US coastline. It was literally in America’s “back-yard”. It came as a shock to the Americans because Cuba and the US had such close ties so recently…

…against nuclear testing after WW II. Linus presented a petition to the U.N signed by 11,000 scientists. This led to the U.S.-Soviet test-ban treaty. This led to Linus winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Later on in his career he looked into medical issues like…

…Early the morning of April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor at the fourth unit of the U.I.Lenin power station at Chernobyl exploded. This blast made history. The nuclear accident in Chernobyl was the worst in the world. Knowing how the accident happened…

…to negotiations on arms control and reduction of nuclear stockpiles. The most visible symbol of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, a barricade begun in 1961 to discourage defections from the East to West Germany. In 1962 there was something…

…of atomic structures. According to Microsoft Encarta His work drew on Rutherford’s nuclear model of the atom, in which the atom is seen as a compact nucleus surrounded by a swarm of much lighter electrons. He thought that electrons are arranged in definite…

…into flattened sacs called thylakoids. The thylakoids are piled up like stacks of coins, and each stack is called a granum. The fluid-filled space about the grana is called the stroma. The nucleus is a large organelle that has a nuclear envelope, chromatin…