Minerals and Rocks Minerals Minerals: Minerals are elements or compounds found in the earth. The elements or compounds are called minerals if they have five features. They are solids. They are formed naturally in the earth. They have the same chemical makeup throughout They are not alive or made of living things. They have definite arrangement of atoms. 3‚000 different minerals are found in the earth. Some are common but most are rare. Aluminum‚ quartz‚ feldspar
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streams down every window‚ Layers of Fear ticks the first box in the list of horror clichés straight from the off. That’s not to say this psychedelic first-person horror doesn’t offer anything unique. Starting out in a seemingly empty 19th-century mansion certainly sets an uncomfortable tone‚ and aided by the rambling narrative of an artist who has completely lost his mind - Layers of Fear consistently unsettles you. While it’s forgivable to consider the concept of Layers of Fear as unoriginal‚ it
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through the three different layers of the afterlife by Virgil. Dante is essentially getting a second chance on his life after this journey that is embraced by Dante. These different layers are started off with the Inferno which is the world’s version of Hell. After that‚ it is onto Purgatorio which is the between layer of Hell and Heaven where the souls are on the right track but still have to experience pain and suffering while on their way to the greatness. Then the final layer which is Paradiso and
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cancer‚ etc. In the year 1985‚ NASA detected the thinning out of the ozone layer leading to the formation of ‘ozone hole’ in Antarctica. Since then the scientists have been regularly monitoring the thickness of the ozone layer. They have found that the thickness of the ozone layer has been decreasing day by day at the alarming rate as a result of the environmental pollution. The main culprits of the serious depletion of ozone layer are found to be the manmade chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s). These CFC (also
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from the bottom of the plate with the aid of a 2B pencil as shown in figure 3(i). 3.next five 2-3mm lines make‚about 0.8cm is spaced apart and running perpendicularly through the lines across the bottom of the TLC plate. 4.The plate is spotted with 5 different analgesic.A separate capillary tube is used for each sample.The acetaminophen solution is first spotted‚then the caffeine‚then the unknown A‚then aspirin‚and lastly the unknow B. B.Developing the TLC plate 1.A developing chamber is prepared
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The layers of Earth How do scientists know what is in the center of the earth? How can we know what the core of the earth is made of‚ if scientists have never studied any materials from a depth below 7.5 miles? Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old‚ and over this time period‚ many things have changed inside and out. The formation of our planet is quite amazing. Earth consists of multiple layers. The three most distinct or main layers are the core‚ mantle and crust. The inner portion is
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IDENTIFICATION OF CREAMY LAYER Q1. Whether the creamy layer should be excluded from the OBC reservation or not? Q2. Whether the creamy layer should be excluded in the case of SC & ST reservations or not? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amongst the backward classes there is a creamy layer which pertains to certain segments of the backward classes which are affluent enough to compete with the forward class. And the
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Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It often uses new recording techniques and effects and draws on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music. It was pioneered by musicians including The Beatles‚ The Byrds‚ and The Yardbirds‚ emerging as a genre during the mid-1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United Kingdom and
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The ozone layer diminishes more each year. As the area of polar ozone depletion (commonly called the ozone hole) gets larger‚ additional ultraviolet rays are allowed to pass through. These rays cause cancer‚ cataracts‚ and lowered immunity to diseases.1 What causes the depletion of the ozone layer? In 1970‚ Crutzen first showed that nitrogen oxides produced by decaying nitrous oxide from soil-borne microbes react catalytically with ozone hastening its depletion. His findings started
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Every time 1% of the ozone layer is depleted‚ 2% more UV-B is able to reach the surface of the planet. So in short‚ without the ozone layer everything on earth will burn. The ozone layer is just as important to us as oxygen‚ without it the harmful UV radiation would give us server burns and destroy our delicate ecosystems. Even though there is hard evidence that proves that ozone depletion is harmful for organisms on earth‚ there are a few groups who think that the ozone layer is a “myth” aka doesn’t
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