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  • How Is Electricity Made

    9 years, 3 months ago

    There are many different ways to make electricity. Each method involves the use of a turbine to spin and convert kinetic energy into electricity. Electricity is made when a turbine moves a large magnet around a very large wire. This movement serves to electrify the wire. Electricity is then pushed away from this generator through special transformers.

    Steam, combustion gases ...

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  • Firefox, one of the leading internet browser have announced a video call application, the Firefox Hello. Same as how plugins work, if you have used them before. Firefox Hello is also an in-browser application so you will need to have Firefox installed. Firefox Hello is also free same as the Firefox browser.

    If you already have Firefox then you are ...

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  • How Does A Spider Make A Web

    9 years, 3 months ago

    The ability to secrete silk is a distinctive characteristics of nearly all spiders. Spider silk is secreted by glands located in the posterior portion of the abdomen and draw out through small nipple-like spinnerets.

    When spiders walk about they spin a dragline of silk that is attached at intervals to the surface over which they are passing. This is the ...

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  • How Are Plastics Produced

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Plastic is the most versatile and widely used synthetic material on the market today. They are polymers, that is, large molecules which consist of long repeating chains of smaller molecules known as monomers. Common monomers used in the production of plastics, such as vinyl acetate, styrene, butadiene and vinyl chloride, are extracted from crude oil or natural gas. Monomers fall ...

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  • How Do Things Glow In The Dark

    9 years, 3 months ago

    From stickers to toys, an object's ability to glow in the dark instantly adds to its appeal. Making things glow in the dark is a simple matter of chemistry.

    The most common way of making an object glow in the dark is to use chemicals called phosphors. These kind of glow-in-the-dark objects need to be exposed to light, or charged ...

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  • Since the inception of the personal computer, futurists have predicted the paperless office. Putting documents on-line rather than on paper, as the reasoning goes, would drastically reduce worldwide paper consumption and help to reverse the environmental damage caused by paper manufacturing.

    The situation, however, is seemingly unattainable, and the paper consumption has even gone from bad to worse. Almost any ...

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  • The term "black hole" was coined by American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler in 1967 to describe this awesome cosmic phenomenon, but the concept of this supermassive body was first put forward by English geologist John Michell in 1784. Albert Einstein predicted its existence in his Theory of Gravity (General Relativity) in 1915.

    Theoretically, a black hole forms when a ...

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  • How To Deal With Modem Problems

    9 years, 3 months ago

    You are scheduled to chat with a very important person; you have tons of materials to research; you need to get an urgent email from a business partner abroad; you are in the middle of an MP3 or video download; and suddenly there appear an alert box telling you that you have been disconnected from the Net. Grrrrr! What else ...

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  • How To Hold Off Email Spams

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Spam is an unsolicited message indiscriminately sent in bulk through electronic medium like the Internet. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam and junk fax transmissions ...

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  • How To Surf Safely On The Internet

    9 years, 3 months ago

    It happens quite too fast. An intriguing e-mail message with an equally intriguing attachment, such an "I love you" card or an "Anna Kournikova Naked" free pics ad, finds its way to your inbox, curiosity prods you to open it, within minutes all your important files are corrupted. Your computer then suffers a seizure. Worst of all, everyone in your PC's ...

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