Channel View School for Research 100-00 Beach channel drive Rockaway Park‚ 11694 12/3/2013 FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION 888 First Street‚ NE Washington‚ DC 20426 Dear FERC‚ Hello Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)‚ I am a concerned citizen of the Rockaway peninsula and I attend channel view school for research high school in the rockaway peninsula. My home is not in addition‚ far from where this radon gas will travel and go through‚ and I want everyone
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Metalloids have properties of both metals and non-metals. Some are semi-conductors and can carry an electrical charge making them useful in calculators and computers The Metalloids are: Boron Silicon Germanium Arsenic Antimony Tellurium Polonium Elements classified as Alkali Metals The 6 elements classified as "Alkali Metals" are located in Group 1 elements of the Periodic Table. Elements classified as Alkali Metals are very reactive metals that do not occur freely in nature. Alkali
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Oceanography Test 1 Study Guide Chapter 1: Knowing the Ocean World An Ocean World • Ocean creatures provide 2% of humanity’s food • 1/3 of the world’s petroleum and natural gas are pumped from beneath the ocean floor • ~ 71% world is covered by water • Ocean – vast body of saline water that occupies the depressions of the earth’s surface • 97% of the water on or near the earth’s surface is contained in the ocean; less than 3% is held in land ice‚ groundwater‚ and freshwater
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and nicotine. Chewing tobacco is sold loose in foil pouches or as plugs or twists‚” says a reporter from mylastdip.com. Chewing tobacco includes the following ingredients: Nicotine — addictive drug‚ insecticide Formaldehyde — embalming fluid Polonium 210 — nuclear waste Lead — nerve poison Hydrocarbons — car exhaust Cadmium — battery chemical Coumarin — a rat poison These all are harmful to the human body and There are two types of chewing tobacco‚ snuff and snus. Snuff is a finely
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The History of the Discovery of Radiation and Radioactivity Introduction: Radiation can be defined as the propagation of energy through matter or space. It can be in the form of electromagnetic waves or energetic particles. Ionizing radiation has the ability to knock an electron from an atom‚ i.e. to ionize. Examples of ionizing radiation include: • alpha particles • beta particles • neutrons • gamma rays • x-rays Non-ionizing radiation does not have enough energy to ionize atoms in the material
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Science CET Reviewer Science – scientia (Latin) which means knowledge. * A systematized body of knowledge that seeks to answer questions about the natural environment; study of organized facts‚ which have been discovered about the environment. * Look at it‚ think‚ guess‚ and try it out. Technology – also known as applied science. * A consequence of science and engineering. * Deals with man’s usage and knowledge of tools and crafts and how it influences man’s ability to control
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Antoine Lavoisier was born in the year 1743 to a wealthy family and inherited a huge fortune at the age of five after the demise of his mother. A noble man by profession has contributed a lot in both chemical and biological science. Antoine Lavoisier is the first person to term Oxygen and Hydrogen and also was the first one to establish that sulphur is not a compound but an element. He was the first person to determine that air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen. His other contribution includes
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radioactive waves. Pierre Curie later proved that these waves could damage flesh‚ but could also be a way to treat cancer and other ailments. Marie‚ as well as her husband‚ went on to discover two new elements recently unknown to man‚ those being polonium and radium. Marie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her scientific achievements‚ but the awards did not stop there. She later became the first person ever to win a second Nobel Prize. Although Marie Curie’s life was brought to an
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Did you know that for every cigarette you smoke you can lose eleven minutes off your life? Smoking can not only leave you with long term affects you may not be able to get rid of but it will leave you poor and maybe dead. Mankind first came in touch with tobacco approximately eighteen thousand years ago‚ when migrant Asiatic people first intersected the Bering Strait and extended across the continents today known as the Americas‚ where tobacco is native (Gately ‚2001). Mayan Indians of Mexico
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declared “The International Year of Chemistry” t o commemorate the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to mankind. It is so fitting that 2011 is the centenary year for the award of Nobel Prize to Marie Curie for her discovery of Radium and Polonium. Also this is the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. P .C Roy. All living things in this beautiful world are nothing but chemical industries. Variety of chemical reactions and out and out chemicals involve in them. So life is nothing
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