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What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?

What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?


What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 07:39 PM PST

I'd imagine there are many factors- CO2, PAH, soot and carbon, others?

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Does distributed generation (e.g. rooftop solar) on a power grid reduce transmission demand?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 08:22 AM PST

How do ants breathe?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 09:26 PM PST

A friend of mine randomly decided to tell me that ants don't and/or can't sleep but then said even more interestingly that they do not have lungs, so my question was, how do they breathe? She said though their movements but how does that work??

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If a radio antenna broadcasted a signal at a frequency of 430 Terahertz (a frequency of visible light) would you be able to see light emitting from the antenna itself?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 11:28 PM PST

Are all planet's cores made out of iron?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 08:04 AM PST

What makes a soap a "germicidal" soap?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:09 AM PST

I mean, since all soaps are meant to rid surfaces of organic, non-polar molecules, shouldn't they work equally since all bacteria and viruses are made of organic, non-polar molecules?

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If you turn an electromagnet on, does the magnetic field get created instantly, or does it get created gradually?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 08:29 PM PST

Follow up question: if it gets created gradually, how fast is it?

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Why do some substances like soap foam while others do not? What exactly causes it to foam?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 07:59 AM PST

When we say a species is older than dinosaurs what do we mean by that?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:45 PM PST

I saw a post today about the lamprey fish, and how it's older than dinosaurs.

What does this mean, it's not that this species has remained genetically the same millions of years that one could reproduce with an individual from that long ago, surely it's evolved so much by now that it would be considered a different species even if it looks similar.

So really all species are older than dinosaurs as they all stem from before dinosaurs?

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If the solar sytem is revolving around the Milky way, is our galaxy revolving around something?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:24 PM PST

Can an asteroid (iron or rock) be so old it can't be dated with our current testing methods?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:28 PM PST

If an asteroid had been traveling across the Milkyway galaxy from when it first formed and passed through our solar system and we were able to get samples from it, is it possible that it can be so old we can not date it? Oumuamua comes to mind.

What would the oldest date we could determine with current testing methods?

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Why can feathers come in pretty much every color, but fur is always black, gray, white, brown, orange, or yellow?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 02:37 PM PST

Why are the centres of galaxys always so bright in pictures?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 10:19 PM PST

How do auto manufactures avoid RF interference with adaptive cruise control systems?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 06:02 AM PST

Do other radar systems interfere with each other in the allotted band? For example, could Tesla's adaptive cruise system interfere with another car that has a similar system in the same vicinity?

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Why do some people think cilantro tastes like soap?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 09:13 AM PST

According to articles I've found, up to 14% of the population is repulsed by cilantro, claiming it tastes like soap. This apparently has a genetic component, although the specific genes involved seem to be complicated.

My question is about how these genes affect taste receptors or the brain to make the subjective experience of tasting cilantro differ so much between two different groups.

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Do phonons have any meaningful or measurable interaction with photons?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 12:16 PM PST

How do high voltage power lines simultaneously have high voltage and low current?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 12:07 PM PST

It is pretty straight forward that decreasing the current flowing through a transmission line also decreases the loss of power from transmitting through that line due to:

P = I^2*R

P: Power Lost

I: Current

R: Resistance

Every source that I have found states that current is decreased in long distance power transmission by using increasing the voltage. Why doesn't this idea conflict with ohms law?

V = I*R

V: Voltage

If the voltage is increased shouldn't the current also increase, not decrease?

Thanks!

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Why is it that we salivate when thinking about or seeing food we like?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:03 PM PST

Without an alarm or other external source for waking us up, what prevents our brains from being asleep forever?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:21 PM PST

Do humans sneeze in their sleep? What state or consciousness is required for a sneeze to be triggered?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 02:22 AM PST

Why doesn't the bottom of the ocean freeze? No light reaches it so surely it would be below freezing, right?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:13 AM PST

When animals/insects are in their respective mating seasons and find a mate, do they always produce offspring?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 10:45 AM PST

Not like always... but is it more often than not or is it still a random process?

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