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bigfoot3000

Worlds biggest parachute

How big is it and what kind of load can it carry?
21:56 Sun 11th Apr 20109 answers, last by termpaperstop 07:38 Sat 24th Apr 2010
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gregbernard2

chemistry methane

give me the chemical formula of methane?
19:07 Wed 14th Apr 20108 answers, last by factor30 18:43 Mon 19th Apr 2010
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tinkerbell23

Labeling the heart

Anyone have any easy ways to remember ths appart from drumming this into myself every day I am losing the will to live but must know it!!! I have one "tri before u bi" as in tricuspid valve...
19:48 Tue 13th Apr 20107 answers, last by gen2 21:38 Sun 18th Apr 2010
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gregbernard2

What happens to lithium and iodine when they react to form lithium iodide?

What happens to lithium and iodine when they react to form lithium iodide?
22:18 Fri 16th Apr 20104 answers, last by bigfoot3000 22:42 Sat 17th Apr 2010
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xxmaryxx

explain the result for the mixture of vegetable oil water and an additive

21:40 Tue 13th Apr 20108 answers, last by factor30 10:38 Sat 17th Apr 2010
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gregbernard2

protons, neutrons, electrons

Protons, neutrons and electrons....what are their charges and relative masses?
19:14 Wed 14th Apr 20105 answers, last by New Judge 16:47 Fri 16th Apr 2010
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gregbernard2

fossil fuels

What is a fossil fuel?
18:58 Wed 14th Apr 20105 answers, last by factor30 15:14 Fri 16th Apr 2010
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AndiFlatland

Merging shadows

I've often noticed that when 2 shadows approach each other, just before they meet there seems to be a sort of 'reaching out' to each other. It's as if they are being gravitationally drawn to each...
17:54 Wed 07th Apr 20103 answers, last by john91 13:01 Fri 16th Apr 2010
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xxmaryxx

why is recycling copper better than extracting copper from its ores

21:38 Tue 13th Apr 20107 answers, last by factor30 07:18 Fri 16th Apr 2010
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srdjai

Why software postprocesing tool syngo circulation fails in heart isolation in some patients after multi clice ct coronary angiography?

08:13 Thu 15th Apr 20105 answers, last by factor30 19:23 Thu 15th Apr 2010
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rov1200

Nobel Prizes

Yet again another scientist has not been given the highest award when it was justly earned. I refer to the discovery of Pulsars where the true discover was not even mentioned in the Nobel Lauriates....
16:29 Mon 12th Apr 20108 answers, last by rov1200 11:33 Thu 15th Apr 2010
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gen2

What is the meaning of 100 g e ?

I have noticed that many food products on sale in the UK have changed their units of measurement. Having just got used to the switch from imperial to metric, are we now being subjected to another...
21:36 Wed 14th Apr 20107 answers, last by ABerrant 02:20 Thu 15th Apr 2010
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regulo

Stainless steel: How long would it stay bright under earth?

I just wondered, as we know stainless steel cutlery remains bright and "new" in normal use, if I buried a spoon in my garden, how would it look if it were to be dug up in say 50 years? Would...
10:43 Fri 09th Apr 201010 answers, last by regulo 10:45 Mon 12th Apr 2010
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jim4jan

what is the informal name given to bacteria resistant to antibiotics

10:40 Mon 05th Apr 20108 answers, last by factor30 07:23 Mon 12th Apr 2010
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MTbowel

PVA reaction in salt water

My son is a fan of carp fishing. There is a popular method of carp fishing which involves tying the bait in anglers PVA netting or bags and casting the bag out into the lake. The PVA dissolves in the...
21:33 Tue 06th Apr 20103 answers, last by MTbowel 13:31 Sun 11th Apr 2010
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danchc

Atoms: Why there are differnet numbers of Neutrons and Protons in stable elements.

According to the American Nuclear Society website: "a Nucleus that has more Neutrons than Protons is unstable, and such Nucleus will try to become stable by giving off particles or packets of...
02:56 Thu 08th Apr 20107 answers, last by danchc 21:12 Fri 09th Apr 2010
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Garmard

Near Earth Objects

I read an asteroid passed close by (moon's orbit) to us today, how many asteroids pass close by each year?
21:36 Thu 08th Apr 20105 answers, last by Garmard 12:33 Fri 09th Apr 2010
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Fredinappolis

Infrared detectors and transistors

Does anyone know any good websites that talk about how an infrared detector and emitter from Radioshack works? I don't understand the theory behind it. I also am wondering about how transistors work....
01:00 Tue 06th Apr 20102 answers, last by mibn2cweus 12:13 Wed 07th Apr 2010
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mollykins

jupiter, mercury, saturn, neptune size order

can you tell me the order of these four planets, in size, indicating whether its smallest to largerest or vice versa? thanks, molly...
09:53 Mon 05th Apr 201013 answers, last by Laasya 09:35 Tue 06th Apr 2010
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_sophie_

Unsaturated/Saturated Hydrocarbons

Can someone clear this up for me... Is an alkane an unsaturated hyrdrocarbon and an alkene a saturated hyrdrocarbon? If not... whats' the different between saturated and unsaturated hyrdrocarbons and...
16:52 Mon 05th Apr 20101 answer, last by dundurn 17:24 Mon 05th Apr 2010

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