“We used six Helzine [sic] soleirolii, commonly known as Baby’s Tears, plants to conduct our experiment. The plants were divided into two groups, A and B. Both groups were placed in the same amount of sunlight and given the same soil. The plants were fed according to florist instructions. However instead of plain tap water, […]
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A novel source of ultrahigh surface area carbons – fizzy drinks (study)
“Ultrahigh surface area carbons (USACs, e.g., >2000 m2/g) are attracting tremendous attention due to their outstanding performance in energy-related applications.” Observations such as this have lead to the search for an easy and cheap method of producing these materials – which find uses like supercapacitor electrodes, catalyst supports, and gas sorbents etc etc. A research […]
Mining Uranium: Coca Cola® makes U accessible
Coca Cola® may not be much use as a contraceptive, but it may well be effective in assessing the environmental impact of bioaccessible Uranium (U). Particularly contamination around mines, nuclear reprocessing plants and waste disposal facilities. Authors Bernd Lottermoser, Ewald Schnug and Silvia Haneklaus explain the concept in the 2011 book The New Uranium Mining […]
Bubbles: Straight, zigzag, or spiral?
Do small air bubbles zigzag or spiral when they rise in clean water? This was the question asked by Mingming Wu, Adjunct Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Biofluidics Lab (and colleagues) at Cornell back in 2002. As anyone who has poured a fizzy drink will have observed, although some small bubbles rise straight […]