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nuclear fission is, the origins of the project, the procedures, and what the resulting product was used for.
Nuclear fission is the splitting of heavy nuclei to release energy. Elements such as uranium and plutonium have heavy nuclei. To produce nuclear
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at a velocity of 100 miles per second. The X-ray light from these nebulae is brighter than the brightest supernova remnants known. After Wang calculated the energy needed to produce these remnants, he concluded they were most likely a result from a hypernova
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and constantly competed with Fred Jr. for their fathers attention. Donalds over exuberance was too much for his father to handle. Donald although very bright would be in constant trouble in school. His father admired his sons energy but still felt he needed
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics has several variations. One version says that
some heat is always wasted when converting heat into mechanical energy. In other words
all heat can not be completely converted
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to reduce gases(which contain sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) from power plants. The first and probably best way is energy conservation. This means using less energy. Less energy means less coal burned in power plants. Burning less coal means less acid
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in your life.
Repeated and/or long-term stress leads to exhaustion of
mental and physical energies and increased susceptibility
of disease.
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concentrated source of energy than had been known before. The Curies measured the heat associated with the decay of radium and established that 1 g (0.035 oz) of radium gives off about 100 cal of energy every hour. This heating effect continues hour after hour
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Although volcanoes have the reputation of being very dangerous, there are advantages of living near a volcano. Volcanoes provide resources for energy extraction, also called geothermal resources. Heat from the earth's crust is being converted to energy
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The idea for the laser started as long ago as 1905 when Albert Einstein suggested the simulated emission of light. Light sources ie. candles, florescent substances, torches, and light bulbs give of packets of energy, called photons, when their atoms
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understanding that man would eventually be able to map the brain, understand it's workings while looking at a model of it called the computer.
I understood that man would eventually be able to take the memory and energy of the mind and interact it with computers. I
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