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Camels do not store water in their humps. Instead, camels use the humps to store energy-rich fat deposits. Many animals, including humans, use body fat as an energy storage. Unique to a camel, however, is the fact that it stores ...
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On its own, ice is not slippery. When you step onto an icy sidewalk, you do indeed feel a slippery surface. But the slipperiness is caused by a thin layer of liquid water and not directly by the solid ice ...
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Gold can be created from other elements. But the process requires nuclear reactions, and is so expensive that you currently cannot make money by selling the gold that you create from other elements. All regular matter is made out of atoms. ...
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A virus is made up of a core of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, surrounded by a protective coat called a capsid which is made up of protein. Sometimes the capsid is surrounded by an additional spikey coat called ...
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It's mostly due to a process called nucleation, where the carbon dioxide in the soda is attracted to the Mentos (they are awfully cute). ... After a lot of debate, scientists are now saying that the primary cause of Coke ...
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SONAR stands for SOund NAvigation Ranging. Sound travels through fresh water at a speed approximately 4920 feet per second. What a sonar device (depth finder / fish finder) does is to measure the amount of time for a burst of ...
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Amblyopia in adults can be treated, often through a combination of prescription lenses, vision therapy and sometimes patching. Amblyopia can be treated because the brain has “plasticity.” The circuitry of the brain can actually change at any age. We ...
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The commonly known method of sterilizing hyaluronic acid is by filtration. Common filtration processes are used in industrial processes for preparing purified hyaluronic acid salts in a concentrated form, usually in the form of dried powder, whereby an aqueous solution ...
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