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When we take footage of the ocean floor that isn't reached by sunlight, are the lights used for filming harmful to the ocean life?

When we take footage of the ocean floor that isn't reached by sunlight, are the lights used for filming harmful to the ocean life?


When we take footage of the ocean floor that isn't reached by sunlight, are the lights used for filming harmful to the ocean life?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:50 PM PDT

Why are batteries arrays made with cylindrical batteries rather than square prisms so they can pack even better?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:38 AM PDT

When does cancer become terminal?

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 02:27 AM PDT

People with cancer survive with an operation or some sort of medical treatment but when the doctor says it's terminal, when exactly does that happen and what does it mean? Is it possible to survive after the cancer has been termed as terminal?

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Do male Lions hunt differently than female Lions?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 10:52 PM PDT

Why do shots tend to make the area around the puncture site sore?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:38 PM PDT

Why does pulling on the skin at the corners of your eyes blur your vision even though nothing is obstructing your field of vision?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:48 PM PDT

Does it have to do with thingies behind your eyes?

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Is -5 minimal possible reduction state for an atom or a molecule?

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 12:43 AM PDT

As far as I understand, it is possible to strip a nucleus from all of its electrons and ionize it as far as to its proton number (+6 for C, +7 for N etc). My understanding is that nothing terrible will happen to the nucleus and it won't break apart or "generate" missing electrons from nothing.

But how far can you go in the opposite direction? I know it is possible to fill the outer electron shell of a nucleus, i.e. reduce boron to -5 or carbon to -4, but is it possible to go further, i.e. "wrap" an extra electron shell around a nucleus? Or at least go up to -6 or -7. Would extra electrons "fly away"? What exactly keeps electrons from leaving an anion with a full outer shell?

Edit: I guess the title should have been "for an ion"?..

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When understanding whether a molecule is Polar or Nonpolar, does the Electronegativity value or net dipole take precedence in determining its polarity?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:53 PM PDT

For example BeCl2 is Nonpolar in terms of net dipole forces but its DeltaEN is 1.5 which would catagorize it as a Polar covalent bond. So is BeCl2 Polar or Nonpolar?

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Roasting coffee - does it change caffeine levels?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 10:15 AM PDT

I understand that caffeine has a melting point of 455 degrees, (F) and as a coffee roaster I know that roasts don't go that far. To my mind this would mean that there should be no discernible difference in caffeine content between a light, medium or dark roast. I have also read this short paper by Juliet Han, which appears to confirm this (with a few outliers).

However! Is there any other method by which caffeine could be released from the coffee beans during the roasting process? In such a way that would make any appreciable difference between a light and a dark roast? I was thinking of things like evaporation and sublimation, but I don't know if they would apply to the roasting process.

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Does the ionisation of an atom via the decay of a radioactive element result in an atom of a separate element becoming unstable or radioactive itself?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 10:03 AM PDT

As above: For example- Would a gamma ray released from decaying radium result in a nearby carbon atom becoming radioactive itself due to it's ionisation?

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Two balls are tied together with rope, and separated by 1 billion lightyears. What is the tension in the rope?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:02 AM PDT

At 1 billion ly apart, the balls would ordinarily be receding from each other at about 160,000 km/s due to cosmological expansion. If the rope is keeping them at the same distance, is it possible to calculate the rope's tension?

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Do people with Situs Inversus need similarly flipped organs for transplants?

Posted: 05 Aug 2019 09:14 PM PDT

In the recent Hitman game a plot point is made about the fact that a character has Situs Inversus and has to resort to fishy activities to get a desperately needed heart transplant from another person with Situs Inversus, under the logic that a regular heart has the wrong orientation and would be useless for transplant.

My question is, do people who actually suffer from Situs Inversus in real life need organs for transplant like hearts to match the orientation of their organs? As such would they then need to get these organs from other people with Situs Inversus? Or does it matter all that much and are there ways of 'Jerryrigging' the body to accept a regularly orientated heart in this circumstance without major side effects?

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