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Is there a way to tell if a piece of jewelry is made from coloured glass or real amber?
The earrings have bits of stuff in them, like real amber does, but i'm not sure....
I believe it is used to make knives but do not know its composition. I always thought good quality stainless steel was not ferro-magetic but this steel is, so making me doubt its quality.
What is the 3,183,247th digit following the decimal point in the value of pi?
There might be a fair amount of money riding on it so proof would also be required....
How does a black hole evaporate? If it is not rotating and not charged then it can lose its mass by gamma ray Hawking radiation, but what if it is charged? The particle which removes the remaining...
Why are we spending £millions on looking for the Higgs Boson when there is a much simpler explanation?
http://www.higgs-boson.org/...
I was watching an episode of the above the other night , which is in respect to crab fishermen who make their living in the Baring Sea , in Alaska . When they returned to Harbour some of the crabs had...
I saw this image once showing the size of the sun. Now there is a new star found. What size is it on this scale? The scale of sun http://www.brevardast...erseScale/photo5.html New star found...
I believe that the enormous speeds that the Saturn V rockets achieved was because as each stage blasted away from the previous one the speed was vastly increased. As space is a vacuum why did this...
A friend of mine is deciphering a prescription(?) or list of ingredients for a 16th century treatment,and has happened on one that seems unlikely. Due to the poor handwriting and age of the document...
Can we do this? I mean can we not channel the electricity by using super long coils to lessen the voltage and then channel the electricity into giant batteries?
What an amazing story!
http://uk.eurosport.y...an-cricket-match.html...
http://www.dailymail....O=1708&referrer=yahoo Good news for us but not so good for our kids/grandkids if its true. 1,800 feet so roughly a third of a mile? Would this seriously destroy the earth?...
I dont know what category this question would come under - so i'll park it here . Has anyone had a dream where you are in a dangerous situation of life and death - and just before the critical moment...
like the seaside?
it's something like gas burping bug or bacteria or something, can anyone confirm this, I think they just mentioned it on coast....
Why are canals short of water, where does it go?
And what form is it when we obtain it?
Or would our bodies reject them?
The following reaction is used to convert methane gas into hydrogen which can in turn be cleanly burned in fuel cells: CH4(g) + H2O(g) → CO(g) + 3 H2(g) ΔHro (a) Use the following...
Can this be done? If so just how far can away could you pick up the internet or a mobile phone signal?
Ok - I'll get me coat....