Is going to church dangerous for your health?
The atmosphere in churches are sometimes laden with smoke from candles and incense. This smoke however can contain particulate material in concentrations of PM10 (or less than 10 micrometres).
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
March 11, 2011
March 9, 2011
Gold wonder drugs
Tumours need a blood supply to grow and so it make sense to hypothesise that if the growth of blood vessels in tumors could be stopped, the tumour would effectively die.
Enter a group of antibodeis that can be used to destroy the protein (vascular endothelial growth factor or VEGF) that tells the blood vessels to divide.
March 8, 2011
Exploding trousers
In the 1930′s, the New Zealand government declared to farmers that they had discovered the best ragwort killer. Ragwort, is a weed and the scourge of farmers.
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March 7, 2011
Images of atoms
There is a great article on the BBC website – it was published back in 2009 but shows some lovely images of atoms found in carbon nanotubes. You can read more and view the articles by clicking here.
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March 4, 2011
Funny named molecules (5) – Quadratic acid
I promise you – no more after this one!!
Quadratic acid – also known as squaric acid! Has the formula C4H4O2
February 28, 2011
Moronic acid
If you have just been on your half term holiday – welcome back!
I have decided to dedicate the next few blog posting to molecules with unusual names.
February 18, 2011
February 17, 2011
Mercury rising?
If anyone eats swordfish they will know how tasty it is. Its steaks are similar to tuna steaks but maybe a little more ‘meaty’. Unfortunately, swordfish has a tendency to accumulate high levels of mercury as methyl mercury. As in humans, the fish has no way of excreting the metal once it is absorbed.
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February 15, 2011
It’s raining …. diamonds?
Diamonds.
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February 14, 2011
Gold Finger(print)
Gold forgers. A strange breed. These people do not pretend to have gold that is indeed another substance – that would be too easy to detect (how?) Instead, they have gold that they claim to be from a different age or source than it actually is.
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