introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Electric vehicles had many advantages over their competitors in the early 1900s. They did not have the vibration‚ smell‚ and noise associated with gasoline cars. Changing gears on gasoline cars was the most difficult part of driving‚ while electric vehicles did not
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The polarity of water Polarity means that the molecule has both a positively and negatively charged end. More important‚ the polarity of water is responsible for effectively dissolving other polar molecules‚ such as sugars and ionic compounds such as salt. Ionic compounds dissolve in water to form ions. This is important to remember because for most biological reactions to occur‚ the reactants must be dissolved in water. Because water is able to dissolve so many common substances‚ it is known as
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as outlined above‚ then as a last step add one electron per negative charge to fill octets. Carbonate ion has a 2- charge‚ so we have two electrons available to fill octets. Using the procedure above‚ we arrive a this structure: The two singly-bonded oxygen atoms each have an open octet‚ so we add one electron to each so as to fill these octets. The added electrons are shown with arrows. Don ’t forget to assign formal charges as well! The final Lewis structure for carbonate ion is: Procedure
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continues to build up more positive charges‚ until the membrane potential reaches a potential of about +40 mV compared with the outside. At this point‚ the sodium channels are temporary close and are inactivated‚ so the sodium ions stop diffusing into the axon. At the same time‚ the voltage-gated potassium channels open. Potassium ions therefore diffuse out of the axon‚ down their concentration gradient. The outward movement of potassium ions removes positive charge from inside the axon to the
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inhumanity of the death penalty‚ including the barbaric methods and public spectacle of the act prior to William Kemmler‚ and most importantly‚ the safety and efficacy of direct current versus alternating current in the eventually preferred method of the electric chair. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse‚ along with a few others‚ were the players who manipulated how the public‚ and therefore the lawmakers‚ felt about this social policy. As it is today‚ the death penalty was a big debate issue in the
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impact for most agricultural soils. AEC occurs on the edges on minerals where positive charges are found.AEC is found particularly in highly weathered soils of the tropics and subtropics. Most agricultural soils have too high a pH for AEC to occur‚ which increases as pH in soils decreases‚ especially in the US and Canada. But the AEC in agricultural soil are smaller than CEC so they are repelled by the positive charge on soil. Ultisols have a lower pH than mollisols so AEC occurs more frequently in the
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resulting in a water molecule having a positive charge on the side where the hydrogen atoms are and a negative charge on the other side‚ where the oxygen atom is. This uneven distribution of charge is called polarity. Since opposite electrical charges attract‚ water molecules tend to attract each other‚ making water kind of "sticky." As the right-side diagram shows‚ the side with the hydrogen atoms (positive charge) attracts the oxygen side (negative charge) of a different water molecule. (If the water
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General Electric is an American conglomerate currently ranked #9 on the Fortune 500 list. The firm operates in four primary business segments; Energy‚ Technology Infrastructure‚ Capital Finance and Consumer / Industrial. Headquartered in Fairfield‚ CT‚ General Electric has grown over the past 122 years into a financial behemoth realizing revenue in excess of $146 billion in 2013. Throughout its existence‚ General Electric has demonstrated an inconsistent record in terms of ethical governance and
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the atom as a positively charged entity that contains randomly dispersed (negative) electrons within it. It is called the plum pudding model because the electrons in the positively charge cloud resemble raisins in a pudding. Thomson realized that all atoms must contain electrons‚ and since the atoms had a neutral charge‚ they must also include protons. This led him and other to think of the atom as a positively charged cloud with electrons randomly scattered in it. Rutherford later found this model
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ion n will attract together because they have the opposite charges. Then an ionic bond is formed. How do covalent bonds form? A covalent bond is for sharing of electrons. I remember it like co-existing electrons to share (Eg H20). It is usually between two non-metals. Which compound‚ sugar or salt‚ is a better conductor of electricity? Explain your answer. Salt‚ because it’s an ionic compound (there isn’t a real bond‚ but a charge separation e.g. NaCl in reality is Na+ Cl-) Part One:
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