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Is silicone plastic safe enough to tell the difference between good and bad in one action?
Today, let's decrypt the silicone with everyone! Q1: Is silicone plastic? Silicone, also known as siloxane, is a hybrid between synthetic rubber and synthetic plastic polymers, which may be made in different forms and used to make malleable rubber-like goods, hard plastic resins, and thick liquids that can be applied.
By test4 years ago in Earth
On courage
Courage is not entirely a state of rational calm, it always carries some passion, which is one of its inevitable conditions. Courage is not fearless, there must be more or less fear behind the courage behavior, but fear is overcome by passion.
By test4 years ago in Earth
On Human Reliability and unreliability
Everyone is an open book, some easy to understand, some difficult to understand, but it takes a certain amount of time, after many times of cooperation, we can get enough information to know a person. Therefore, people who are connected by all kinds of things have a cognitive scale of others.
By test4 years ago in Earth
Antarctic Ice Core reveals changes in CO2 concentration over the past thousand years
On April 27th, Natural Geoscience (Nature Geoscience) magazine published an article entitled "links between atmospheric CO2, terrestrial carbon banks and climate in the past millennia" (Links between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, the Land Carbon Reservoir and Climateover the Past Millennium). According to the reconstruction data of CO2 concentrations over the past millennium, the main reason for CO2 concentration fluctuations on a time scale from decades to centuries is the feedback mechanism between climate and terrestrial carbon banks.
By test4 years ago in Earth
70 years after the founding of the United Nations, the coordinated development of economy, environment and society is still a great challenge.
On 13 April 2015, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ESC) discussed and signed the outcome document of the High-level statement of the Economic Commission for Europe Regional Development agenda and expected Sustainable Development goals (High-level statement on the post-2015 development agenda and expected sustainable development goals in the ECE region).
By test4 years ago in Earth
OECD: strengthen urban water management to ensure sustainable utilization of urban water resources
In April 2015, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report entitled "Water and cities: ensuring a sustainable future" (Water and cities: Ensuring Sustainable Futures), which aims to promote urban development and coordinated use of water resources and sustainable development in its member countries. OECD member countries are basically at a high level in terms of urban water management measures, and most residents have access to safe and reliable water supply services. The main risks faced by its member countries are to withstand floods, droughts, deterioration of water quality caused by urban growth, competition for water resources, water pollution caused by agriculture and climate change. There are also problems caused by aging infrastructure. Most OECD member cities need to solve their problems from the current situation of existing infrastructure and environment.
By test4 years ago in Earth
There is no news in the scientific community today. Maybe this is the biggest news.
If a scientific study brings new discoveries, then its value is self-evident. However, behind these glamorous studies, many studies that have not found significant results are slightly lonely and do not even get the opportunity to be published, although they are also of great value to the development of science. With the joint efforts of scientists and the academic publishing community, this situation is changing.
By gaisndm Hawkshaw4 years ago in Earth
Even if Lucky didn't cut the American leek, I wouldn't bury it.
However, in retrospect, Ruixing is already a company that makes people have countless question marks. The online takeout coffee model launched by coupons and ultra-low coffee prices has also been controversial, including, of course, exclusion from the environmental community.
By test4 years ago in Earth
The fastest speed and the slowest speed are related to it.
. Scientific research trends and comprehensive news of the Institute of Physics; frontiers of physics and science communication.
By gaisndm Hawkshaw4 years ago in Earth
The Odyssey of the Mobro 4000
On March 22, 1987, the Mobro 4000 set out on one of the more idiotic quests in human history. This story of real-life futility illustrates how little we understand ourselves and how that ignorance can lead to costly decisions.
By Jordan J Hall4 years ago in Earth
Why Do Bats Hang Upside Down?
Bats are strange creatures. Though they're often associated with images of Dracula and other spooky things, most people don't know much about these animals.
By Heather Whitney4 years ago in Earth
American Anthropological Association releases Anthropology and Climate change report
On March 4, 2015, the American Anthropological Association (American Anthropological Association, AAA) released a report entitled "changing atmosphere: anthropology and Climate change" (Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change), which provides a guide to anthropological climate change research. It focuses on the promotion of human activities to climate change, the experience of human adaptation to climate change, the evaluation of "global-regional-local-community" spatial scales to study the adaptability and vulnerability of climate change, and the importance of community research. the necessity of interdisciplinary research and so on. From the point of view of anthropology, eight viewpoints are put forward to understand the impact of climate change:
By test4 years ago in Earth