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surface water

(Science: ecology) water present above the substrate or soil surface.


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sterilization in microwave oven

... lenses are probably not sterile. - Microwave can and do superheat water above 100ÂșC, but this is neither reliable nor safe. Not reliable because ... nor reliable for sterilization (destroying all living organisms on the surface).

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by canalon
Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:14 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: sterilization in microwave oven
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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News

... loses all function after a part is removed must be designed. On the surface, P1 looks pretty solid; however, within it lies an assumption that ... This makes P2 not only illogical, but irrelevant. As P2 fails to hold water, the conclusion is similarly invalidated. I know I will be accused ...

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by AstusAleator
Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bird-Dinosaur News
Replies: 44
Views: 1045

Unit conversion

A litre is a volume. A square metre is a surface. There are 1000 Litres in a cubic meter. If you want to know how many daphnia there are below 1 square meter of surface of sea/fish bowl/lake water you first have to calculate the volume under that surface by multiplying it by ...

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by canalon
Fri May 08, 2009 7:43 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Unit conversion
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Views: 317

Absorption Spectra of Aquatic Plants

... absorbing blue light, since it tends to penetrate the deepest into the water. It would depend on how deep the plant lives, though, and whether or not it has leaves that project to or above the surface.

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by alextemplet
Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:55 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Absorption Spectra of Aquatic Plants
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Views: 1304

Re: How much CO2 in the early earth's atmosphere?

... so saturated with H2O that there would be huge amounts of condensated water on the earths surface. Think of it like this if you bunged a test tube (hard enough so that it wouldn't pop ...

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by futurezoologist
Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:34 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: How much CO2 in the early earth's atmosphere?
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