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Why does it seem impossible to kill midges? For years they have plaqued the Scottish countryside and now they are decimating our livestock with the arrival from the continent. There was a scheme...
My daughter has asked me to help her with her science the question is zinc + hydrochloric acid =
Why cant we manufactue gold?, after all we should know the make up of the stuff and how its created and we can make diamonds so why not gold, silver or platinum. or am i just being stupid? Dave.
if God is omnipresent, then God is in all things isn't he? Which means God is a part of all things. So is it therefore a sin to eat God with a nice vindaloo washed down with 12 pints of God? I think...
a person in a workshop invents an antigravity device, on switching it on would this device immediately fly into the top of the western wall at the speed of the earths rotation at its surface as this...
A flywheel is rotating at high speed. No energy is being supplied to it. The flywheel is used to turn a dynamo, and the energy from the dynamo is used to light a bulb. The bulb is left connected until...
Anyone interested ? for your area type in SPACEWEATHER.COM and get links from there times for space shuttle take off and landings.Here are the times for midlands england uk sightings this coming...
How is it that every so called "anomoly" has been explained to death. http://www.clavius.org/ there are still idiots who believe all the "Capricorn one" sh1te?...
how to describe the earth to an alien
Hi Does anyone know how I can calculate the number of receptors present on a cell for a particular substrate, having been given the rate of uptake for that substrate in pmol/hr? Thanks C xx
I have been feeling mild nausea for a couple of months and have felt better in the last two days, which co-incides with me running out of my vitamin B tablets - could these be the cause? Thanks in...
ONce water has been heated to its boiling point additional heating will not raise its temperature. What happens to htis additional energy?
In a group of these metals and nonmetals Bromine, Cardon, Chlorine, Copper, Iron, Mercury, Nickel, Selenium and Sulphur which substances would be ''difficult to group''. I was thinking mercury being a...
Imagine two adjacent playing fields one with a wet and the other with a dry surface. If you simultaneously measured air temp above each surface on a summy afternoon where would you expect to find the...
What proportion of the speed of light has mankind managed to accelerate something to, be it a particle or a pea?
If a particle such as a photon has zero mass why does gravity still have an effect on it? Eg. gravity bending light
how fast a fluid runs
inference is a way of learning about the natural world
transformation of a physical state of a substance into a different physical state
Hi, I'm not a mathematician, or into gyroscopes in any way, but i just got thinking about what the effect would be of adding another axis of rotation to a gyroscope (basically allowing, what would...