Essays Tagged: "small quantities"

Chromium

its chromite.Chromium is added to other metals to make them harder andmore resistant to chemicals. Small quantities mixed with steel make the metalstainless. Stainless steel is used to make cutlery a ... s about 13 percent chromium and 0.3 percent carbon.The hardness of steel can be increased by adding smallquantities of chromium to it. Chromium steel alloys (mixtures containing oneor more metals) are ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

"How is helium produced"

e most common elements in theuniverse it is a rare gas on earth. It exists in the atmosphere in suchsmall quantities (less than five parts per million) that recovering itfrom the air is uneconomical. ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

"Drugs" and Australian laws

s in our society.[2.] AlcoholAlcohol is a depressant drug and not a stimulant as many people think. Small quantities of alcohol cause people to become relaxed and lower their inhibitions. They feel mo ... 'high'. Traces of Cannabis can remain detectable in urine samples for days, even weeks, after use. Small quantities of cannabis can have effects that last 2 to 3 hours after smoking. Cannabis can mak ...

(6 pages) 75 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Formaldehyde and all about it.

rated formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is very flammable when in high concentrations. It is also found in small quantities within the human body. 400 liters of Formaldehyde are water soluble to 1 liter of w ...

(2 pages) 99 5 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Standard Analytical Method; Fiber Distribution.

s fibre reinforced compounds: Determination of the fibre length distribution.SAFETY:THE METHOD USES SMALL QUANTITIES OF FIBRE GLASS: CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO AVOID SKIN CONTACT AND INHALATION TO PREVEN ... se fibres, granules, moulding pieces or extruder lace. If a large moulded piece is to be analysed a small sample may be cut from it measuring 3 - 6 mm square. The risk of fibre damage in the cutting p ...

(7 pages) 60 1 3.7 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

This is a project for my Intro to Pyschology class on anorexia nervosa.

d meals, carefully weighing and portioning food, and selecting a few foods and eating only those in small quantities (i.e. lettuce, crackers, and fruit).Affected Population- Anorexia has been consider ...

(5 pages) 96 1 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

This essay is about retail theft and the concequences.

rime! The defination according to Dictionary.com states "retail-the sale of goods or commodities in small quantities directly to consumers" and "theft-The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious ...

(2 pages) 58 1 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Radioactivity

utside assistance. An example of these natural substances are Uranium and radium, they are found in small quantities throughout the interior of the earth.Soon after the discovery of the X-ray, Henry B ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Batch Production, Mass Production, Continuous Production and One-off Production

ms in bulk. In batch production, general-purpose equipment and methods are commonly used to produce small quantities of items that will be made and sold for a limited time only. Usually a similar desi ... ge amounts of goods are expected in Continuous production and often workers will each be assigned a small part of one item. In continuous production one item is made and then re-produced hundreds, som ...

(1 pages) 15020 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Minerals: Vanadates.

are a source of vanadium (V) which is a common element in the earths crust but it is only found in small quantities. Vanadium is used in industry to strengthen steel, it is used in making an iron all ...

(7 pages) 18 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Analysis of the mass of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) in an Aspirin Tablet.

4. The solution was poured into a 250cm3 volumetric flask.5. The beaker was washed out with further small quantities of water.6. All the washings were poured into the 250cm3 volumetric flask to ensure ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The purpose was to evaluate the sporting goods retail industry.

y, the retailing process is the final step in the distribution of merchandise. Products are sold in small quantities to the general public, which occurs either directly from a store location or indire ... of competitive rivalry is mainly regional; this depends on the business though. If the business is small it can even be local but even small businesses can compete on a regional level. On the other h ...

(22 pages) 101 0 3.8 Apr/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Carbon dioxide

Carbon Dioxide is an unreactive, colourless, odourless gas that occurs in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere naturally. The earth's ocean, soil, plants and animals re ...

(3 pages) 19 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Prison Overcrowding

dmitted to prisons for drug offences. Most of these drug offenders are drug addicts possessing very small quantities. The ?Three Strikes? law states that if an offender commits a felon three times, he ...

(6 pages) 165 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The History of Nylon

urrency.After the war, the conversion of nylon production to civilian uses began and when the first small quantities of nylon stockings were advertised, thousands of frantic women lined up at New York ...

(1 pages) 3748 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Book report about Marie Curie's life.

e activity, superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence in the ore of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity. Pierre Curie then joined her in the ...

(3 pages) 15 0 5.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Pragmatic Drug Policy of the Netherlands

the Office of the Public Prosecutor in 1996 state that arresting and criminalising users possessing small quantities of any drug for personal use is not looked upon as a priority according to the Dutc ... minishment of public nuisance.� This is based on the argument that if law does not prosecute small-scale cannabis dealing and use under certain conditions, the users - who are mainly young peop ...

(13 pages) 27 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Water resource challenge

capacity for absorbing our nations waste. Recently, we have come to realize that our waste, even in small quantities, have huge effects on ocean communities and species.Some of the pollutants that are ... eak down easily it may persist for many years' even decades. When it does break down, it turns into small pieces which are easily eaten by marine animals. These small pieces of plastic may make an ani ...

(7 pages) 52 0 5.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences