Home-Repair Tool Basics
31 Mar 2008Making repairs to your house means having the right tools and materials on hand so you can get right at the job and on with your life. Knowing about the basics will help you in the long run. So, wh...
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How To Grow A Specialty Garden
31 Mar 2008A flourish of nothing but glorious roses, the soothing quiet of trickling water: These are all possibly if you decide to design your own specialty garden. It's up to you to decide how special a garden...
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How Compact Disks Work
23 Feb 2008A CD can store up to 74 minutes of music, so the total amount of digital data that must be stored on a CD is: 44,100 samples/channel/second x 2 bytes/sample x 2 channels x 74 minutes x 60 seconds/m...
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How Radio Works
09 Feb 2008"Radio waves" transmit music, conversations, pictures and data invisibly through the air, often over millions of miles -- it happens every day in thousands of different ways! Even though radio waves a...
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Why Humans Can't Breath Underwater
06 Feb 2008One thing about chemicals is that, once they react in certain ways, they form compounds that are nothing like the original elements. For example, if you react carbon, hydrogen and oxygen together one ...
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How Your Lung Works
06 Feb 2008You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute without even thinking about it. When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up -- again, without you thinking about it. You breathe so re...
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