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What Causes Surface Currents?

What Causes Surface Currents?

Although ocean circulation isn’t visible to the eye, it’s one of the most important climate regulators on the planet, and it’s vital for the survival of marine life. If you’re looking for a surface current definition, it is any current…

How to Create Borax Powder

How to Create Borax Powder

Borax powder is a multipurpose item that can be used in all kinds of ways from making slime for the kids to doing your laundry. Products made with borax powder are available at retailers, but it’s easy to make your…

Understanding the Coefficient of Consolidation

Understanding the Coefficient of Consolidation

The coefficient of consolidation is the parameter used to describe the rate at which saturated clay or other soil undergoes consolidation, or compaction, when subjected to an increase in pressure. It is measure in square centimeters per second or square…

Calculating Cubic Space

Calculating Cubic Space

Calculating the cubic space inside a three-dimensional object is the same process as calculating its volume. Another way to think of it is: How much liquid, air or solid could this object hold if it were hollowed out? Or, how…

What Occurs Following a Volcanic Eruption?

What Occurs Following a Volcanic Eruption?

There are approximately 169 active volcanoes in the United States, but most of them are in Alaska. Volcanic eruptions can have serious consequences. However, when a volcano releases pent-up fury, it doesn’t have to obliterate everything in sight. In fact,…

Understanding the Breathing Process of Sponges

Understanding the Breathing Process of Sponges

Sponges are animals that belong to the phylum Porifera, which means “pore-bearing.” Sponges breathe by moving water through pores, called ostia, which cover their body. Sponges respire through a process called diffusion. ​Simple diffusion​ is where chemicals, like oxygen and…

Discovering Relative Mass

Discovering Relative Mass

Relative mass is an important concept in chemistry. It exists to simplify the process of working out the mass of an atom or molecule. In absolute units, protons and neutrons have masses on the order of 10−27 kilograms, which is…