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    Molecular Properties: PL and Acid Dissociation Constant

    what is the pl of a molecule? What is the acid dissociation constant? Thanks in advance for any replies
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    What is a linear salt gradient?

    Can anyone tell me what a linear salt gradient is?
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    Solve the Lightbulb Puzzle with One Trip

    You're in a room with three switches that open three lightbulbs in a separate room. You don't know which switch turns on which lightbulb. How do you find out which switch goes to which lightbulb by entering the other room only once? You don't have any help, you can't see the other room while you...
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    Can a monkey outrun a bullet and still save her litter?

    For question 2, i would say door two. The question says he's a murderer, which could mean he's an assassin. Going into that room, he could be greeted with open arms.
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    News So what exactly was discussed during the House of Reps secret session?

    I don't think that the secret house session wouldn't be much more than about FISA because they debated the nuances of a proposed secret session for an hour because the Republicans say they have some valuable and secret information about a secret wiretapping program that has been debated in...
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    Can dark matter be just a cloud of protons?

    Plus, it's impossible to attain zero K because you would be violating the third law of thermodynamics. There's cold dark matter and hot dark matter. I'm wondering if someone could explain to me what the WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) and MACHO (Massive Compact Halo Object) are. They...
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    News Does Offshore Drilling Impact Gas Prices as Claimed by McCain?

    Ok...what person wouldn't believe anything that McCain said had an aspect of fallacy in it? McCain supports offshore drilling and among his campaign promises is to develop domestic natural gas resources and promote oil exploration. Yeah, he's probably going to go through with that, but all of...
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    News Does Offshore Drilling Impact Gas Prices as Claimed by McCain?

    I wouldn't think supply development is that important right now. There are 98 countries that produce oil. 60 are in terminal decline in production and 64 are thought to have surpassed their production peak (geologically imposed one). Any new supplies probably couldn't be extracted quickly enough...
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    How does the Clapp oscillator work?

    I'm not sure if I am correct because I'm not entirely familiar with Clapp oscillators, but here's my best guess. The pnp transistor in the Colpitts is used as an amplification device, but I'm not so sure. Or, it could help with providing the output signal. That's my best answer. The...
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    New Ideas for shelding:manned deep space Missions

    sorry, meant to say comets
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    New Ideas for shelding:manned deep space Missions

    I would have to agree with drag. Armour is the best for stopping micrometeorites, and it has been tested before in the Deep Impact mission impactor. The armor used in that case were simply sheets of copper that prevented small debris from interfering with the instruments. It was copper, because...
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    What steps need to be taken for successful human colonization of Mars?

    There are just simply too many unknowns at the current time. We still need to conduct tests after we have developed the technology, just as the Apollo program did before it sent man to the moon. And if we do send a space station to Mars, we need to make it self sustainable, before it becomes...
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    Manned Mars mission to Mars before 2020?

    12 years seems to be a bit too short considering the insufficient public or political interest in a visit to Mars in the next two decades. Mars' atmospheric pressure is less than 1% of Earth's, or what it would be like, 30 kilometers above sea level here. So, I don't even think engineers would...
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    News Was George W. Bush's Response to 9/11 Justified?

    It might not all be because of all the international mistakes that Bush has made, but also from domestic failures. He certainly expanded the gap between the rich and the poor with his "faith based initiatives" and I don't remember him doing anything for those without any healthcare...except...
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    News Feasibility of Nuclear Energy with Recycling (Pu) as Energy Solution in US

    I was talking about the United States fuel supply... Instead of fear of nuclear proliferation, we could persuade the countries that do use plutonium to use pyrometallurgical methods instead of PUREX. That way, the resulting products won't be of weapons grade quality. Either way though...
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