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Celebrate Chinese New Year with Fireworks
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Chinese New Year starts tomorrow, which makes today New Year's Eve. Legend has it fireworks were first created by the Chinese in the 800s. These early fireworks were bamboo shoots filled with gunpowder, to be exploded at the commencement of the new year to scare away evil spirits. The Chinese story ... (original story)
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Phase Diagram Quiz - Test Yourself!
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A phase diagram is a graphical representation of the state of matter of a substance. How well can you read a phase diagram? Take the Phase Diagram Quiz and find out! If you need to study up a bit first, try reading Phases of Matter and Phase Diagrams. Good Luck!Phase Diagram Quiz - Test Yourself! ... (original story)
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This Day in Science History - January 23 - CFCs and Ozone
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On January 23, 1978, Sweden became the first country to ban the use of aerosol sprays which use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as their propellants. The ban came after research done by Frank Rowland and Mario Molina demonstrated CFCs interacted with ultraviolet light in the upper atmosphere to break the... (original story)
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What Does Red Mercury Look Like?
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Here is a stunning example of red mercury in the form of cinnabar in quartz. Cinnabar or vermilion is natural red mercury(II) sulfide. Although there has been speculation that red mercury may be a nuclear material, this form of red mercury is not radioactive. Encased in quartz, it is one of the safe... (original story)
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Domino reactions in water: diastereoselective synthesis of densely functionalized indolyldihydrofuran derivatives
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Green Chem., 2012, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/C2GC16517A, PaperPethaiah Gunasekaran, Kamaraj Balamurugan, Sathiyamoorthi Sivakumar, Subbu Perumal, J. Carlos Menendez, Abdulrahman I. AlmansourA library of trans-5-aroyl-2-(indol-3-yl)-4-aryl-4,5-dihydrofuran-3-carbonitriles was diastereoselectively s... (original story)
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This Day in Science History - January 24 - Project ZETA
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On January 24, 1958, English nuclear scientists announced the success of Project ZETA to ignite the first man-made fustion reaction. The project began in 1954 and was named after the design of the device involved in the process. ZETA stands for Zero Energy Toroidal Assembly which was expected to hea... (original story)
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Revealing the Patterns of Lichtenberg Figures
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Unless you have a particle accelerator, the type of Lichtenberg figure that you would make yourself probably would be a two-dimensional surface pattern rather than a three-dimensional pattern you would see illuminated by LEDs or sometimes forming a dark tree inside the plastic. An LED can illuminate... (original story)
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The Difference Between Fluorine and Fluoride
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First off, yes, it's fluorine and fluoride and not flourine and flouride. The mis-spelling is common, but the 'u' comes before the 'o'. Fluorine is a chemical element. Its anion, F-, or any of the compounds containing the anion are termed fluorides. When you hear about fluoride in drinking water, it... (original story)
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This Day in Science History - January 22 - Lev Landau
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January 22nd is Lev Davidovich Landau's birthday. Landau was the main leader of Soviet theoretical physics and a central figure in the development of quantum electrodynamics. In the few years before World War II, he studied extensively in other European scientific centers and met with many of the pi... (original story)
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Bending Water
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Here's a science project that works especially well in cold weather when relative humidity is very low: bend a stream of water using static electricity. All you need is a stream of water and a source of static electricity. One easy way to collect a nice static charge is to comb dry hair or fur with ... (original story)
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