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Xylitol and Your Chewing Gum -
Christian Heine (240)   So if you’ve happened to be at a convenience store or you local gum retailer lately, you may have noticed that Trident Gum now boasts a wonderful new additive, xylitol. What is xylitol and where did it come from? And why is it in our gum? Xylitol is a sugar alcohol or polyol... ( added 3 years 23 days ago.) |
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How I Was Overtaken By Evil Eye Envy! -
John Anagnostou (88) You are about to embark on a journey that only a percentage of the world’s population has made. Throughout the journey, you will gain insight that will expand your horizons in the evil eye phenomenon. My name is Aphrodite and I was 15 years old when mother and I took a vacation to Greece more... ( added 3 years 26 days ago.) |
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Deaths From Indonesian Earhtquake Could Have Been Avoided -
SWEET PEA (80)  DEATHS FROM INDONESIAN EARHTQUAKE COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED On Monday March 28 th at around 11:09 am GMT time, ( added 3 years 32 days ago.) |
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Igneouse Rock, info and formation -
Joey Lewitin (96) Igneous is a word that refers to formation from flame. An igneous rock is a rock that has formed from the cooling of liquid magma. If this cooling occurs above the surface of the earth it is called an extrusive igneous rock. It the cooling occurs slowly beneath the surface of earth then it is an... ( added 3 years 42 days ago.) |
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Sophus’ choice: Redefining the role of Ancient Greek scholars in modern society -
altspace (328)  It is known by most high school students that Ancient Greek scholars were very adept in philosophy (from ‘ philos ’ and ‘ sophos ’), math (geometry), debates, and music. They depicted the universe as a set of harmonious arrangement of circles (the most idealistic shape in their mind). ( added 3 years 142 days ago.) |
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Origins of Frogs -
Steven Dickinson (208)   Steven Dickinson   Frogs come in many varieties and colors. Frogs and toads are part of the class called amphibians. The difference between frogs and toads is that frogs have long legs and smooth skin while toads will have short legs and rough skin. Look at pictures of the tree frogs and you will see that... ( added 3 years 155 days ago.) |
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Birth of Babies and Enzymes -
Steven Dickinson (208) Steven Dickinson "For You formed my inward parts You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well." Psalm 139:13-14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I... ( added 3 years 155 days ago.) |
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Marble Information -
joey Lewitin (4,003) Marble – Stone of Elegance Information and Facts Marble is one of the most sophisticated of stones. It is generally smooth and polished, although it can come in a rough texture. Its use historically is very widespread in both art and architecture. Formation Marble is a kind of... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Transducers -
Thomas Yoon (4,590)    Thomas Yoon Complex control systems all make use of signals that can be easily measured and altered remotely. Automatically operated machines or actuators need to be powered either by electrical motors, pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders. The most common signals sent out from a transducer are electrical... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Chemicals for Cooling Towers -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon Cooling towers are used to cool down hot condenser water taken from chillers of air conditioning systems. The cooling effect of cooling towers are attributed to the evaporation of the water when it is blown through by air from the fans. After some time of circulating through the cooling towers... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Centrifugal Chillers -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon Centrifugal chillers are used for cooling large buildings in a centralized air conditioning system. There are other types of chillers using screw compressors and reciprocating compressors. These are usually smaller in size. Today's topic is about centrifugal chillers - the ultimate choice for any... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Cooling Towers - Workhorses of Industries -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon Industrial Processes usually produces a lot of heat. Air-conditioning also removes heat from the indoor areas through heat exchangers. Where does all the heat go? All these heat has to be removed. If you are not near the sea, you have to use cooling towers to cool down your warm water. ... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Boiler Water Chemical Treatment -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon A boiler is used for generating steam. It does this by heating water to its boiling point, after which steam will evaporate from it. When you boil a kettle of water, you will shut off the fire or electric power when the water comes to a boil. No so with a steam boiler. Generation of steam... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Boiler Manhole Safety -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon Boiler inspections are necessary in order to find out the effectiveness of the boiler water chemical treatment. It is also useful to detect any faults or potential weakness in the steel structures, plates and shells so that accidents can be avoided. However, even entering the boiler for... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Boiler Inspection -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon A steam boiler is a pressure vessel with a difference. The vessel is subjected to heat stress of expansion and contraction, internal and external corrosion, as well as intense heating on some of its surfaces. If we are not careful, the steam pressure can rise up very high, and it can become a... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Air Handling Units -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon How do big shopping complexes, offices and commercial buildings cool their indoor space? For big buildings, we need big cooling capacities. Central air-conditioning systems using chillers are used. Chilled water is the most convenient way to collect the heat from the indoor spaces. We just... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Expansion Valve -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon In the refrigeration cycle, the refrigerant must undergo a change in state in order for the heat to be absorbed from the environment. The refrigerant has the property of changing its state from liquid to vapor at normal room temperatures. Have you ever felt your skin becoming cool whenever... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Evaporator -
Thomas Yoon (4,590) Thomas Yoon Evaporator coils of air conditioning systems are sometimes called cooling coils. But cooling coils are also used in air-handling units. These contain chilled water. These are completely different from those used in direct expansion air cond units. So cooling coils is not an accurate word to... ( added 3 years 165 days ago.) |
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Limestone information and facts -
joey Lewitin (4,003) Limestone Limestone is one of the most versatile stones available. In its pure form it is hard enough to be used in almost any application, however it is relatively soft compared to other building stones such as marble. Limestone Variations Forms of limestone include chalk (a much softer... ( added 3 years 166 days ago.) |
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Flashover! Saving Firefighter Ryan -
Louis Angeli (220) Wilmington, DE -- July 21, 2004 -- Flashover! Even though firefighters are beginning to understand it, this fatal phenomenon is still shrouded in a veil of mystery. Experts in the fire training arena have differing opinions and descriptions of Flashover, but they all seem to agree on one thing.... ( added 3 years 300 days ago.) |
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What Can Body Acceptance Get You? Plenty! -
Karin Kratina (40) If being told to lose weight actually helped people to lose weight, there would be no fat people. If being told they "will die if they do not lose weight" by a medical doctor (as was told to one of my clients only 40 pounds above "ideal") or that they "are unsightly" (as Ann Landers has done)... ( added 3 years 318 days ago.) |
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Red Sky at Morning – Forecasting the Weather with Weathervanes and Old Weather Wisdom -
 - Mike Milliman (305) Red sky at morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor's delight Old proverbs such as this were the earliest weather forecasts. Passed down from generation to generation, these rhymes helped our ancestors recognize when a storm was brewing or a cold snap was on the way. ... ( added 21 days 19 hours ago.) |
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In the beginning -
Ben Morrish (696)   Ben Morrish In the Beginning there was the Universe. Before that time didn't exist so "before that" doesn't have any meaning. The universe consisted of simple rules, and energy which obeyed them (indeed the rules and the energy are the same thing in a sense, each can only exist with the other and each is... ( added 35 days 22 hours ago.) |
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Transplants: Heart and Soul? -
Ben Morrish (696) Ben Morrish More pseudoscience in the papers today, alas. Will this tide of ignorance ever end? The title of the article is a question...a question that has a very obvious answer, but they ask it anyway: Can we really transplant a human soul? No, of course we can't. One key reason being that there is no such... ( added 37 days 12 hours ago.) |
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Run Your Car With Water-- Yes, You Read It Right! -
Leo Ponder (239)  Leo Ponder It's an amazing new (but maybe not so new) technology and there are already hundreds of cars running plain tap water in their cars! But it may not be so new as I mentioned, so I should start with a story my stepfather used to tell. Being a veteran of World War 2, when I was small, I used to beg... ( added 45 days 10 hours ago.) |
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