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Sylvia Rose
4 hours ago4 min read
Aluminum (Al): Metal to the Stars
Aluminum is lightweight, strong and resistant to corrosion. The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, it's used in spacecraft,...
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Sylvia Rose
2 days ago3 min read
Rare Earth Elements (REEs): Science & Environment
Rare earth elements (REEs) are scattered through the Earth's crust. Coveted by many, they're bargaining chips in world politics. REES are...
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Sylvia Rose
2 days ago7 min read
Fossil Fuels: Ecology & Economy
Fossil fuels, including oil, natural gas and coal, are formed by the buried remains of ancient organisms, under heat and pressure. Fossil...
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Sylvia Rose
3 days ago5 min read
Mineral Oil: Technology & Ecology
Mineral oil is a petroleum product with vast uses in health and cosmetics, robotics, food and industry. In 1859 Edwin Drake successfully...
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Sylvia Rose
3 days ago5 min read
Robot Lubrication: Grease the Machine
Lubrication is integral to keep mechanical parts moving smoothly. Robot lube increases performance and lifespan. From mineral oils to...
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Sylvia Rose
4 days ago5 min read
Silver (Ag): Ancient Trade to Modern Tech
Silver is a lustrous versatile transition metal used from Neolithic times to create ornaments. It's known for antibacterial powers, and...
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Sylvia Rose
6 days ago5 min read
Carbon Sequestration: Environmental Health
Carbon sequestration capture and store carbon either through biological means or in geological formations. This process, currently used...
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Sylvia Rose
6 days ago5 min read
Air Pollution: Science, Health & Economy
Air pollution is an accelerating global crisis affecting millions of lives and ecosystems. Air pollution is contamination of the...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 73 min read
Robot Manufacture & Environmental Health
Industries use automation and robotics to promote productivity. Along with robot manufacturing advances come environmental concerns....
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 14 min read
Lithium (Li): Science, Health & Uses
Lithium (Li) is a soft, silvery-white metal. Famous for rechargeable batteries, lithium is important to sectors like health and...
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Sylvia Rose
Mar 19 min read
Russo-Ukrainian War: Motives, Propaganda & Technology
The Russo-Ukrainian War begins in 2014. Conflict goes back much further. The war has profound political, social, and economic...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 274 min read
Titanium (Ti): From Space to Earth & Back
Titanium (Ti) is a metallic element. From celestial origins titanium has widespread appeal as the metal of choice for robots,...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 255 min read
Ancient Salt & Health: Physician Dioscorides
Dioscorides is a physician of Rome in the first century AD. He serves as a doctor in Nero's army and later writes De Materia Medici ,...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 245 min read
Magnesium (Mg): Ecology & Human Health
Magnesium is an element and electrolyte crucial to life on Earth. As the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body, magnesium is...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 248 min read
Natural Anti-Spasmodic Treatments for Muscle Spasms & Pain
Muscle spasms are involuntary, often painful contractions. They happen for many reasons including stress, body imbalance or dehydration....
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 25, 20244 min read
Pyrococcus furiosus: Extremophile of Vulcano
Pyrococcus furiosus is an extremophile first discovered in the boiling hot, anaerobic conditions of the volcanic island Vulcano. This...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 24, 20245 min read
Vulcano: Child Miners, Gods & Extremophiles
Vulcano is part of the Aeolian Island archipelago of Italy. Named for Vulcan, Roman god of fire and metalworking, Vulcano is a unique...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 18, 20244 min read
First Life on Earth: Microbes & Stromatolites
Ancient microbes in harsh conditions are the earliest life forms. Fossil records appear in rock formations up to 3.7 billion years old....
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 13, 20245 min read
Chalk (CaCO3): Bounty of the Primal Seas
Chalk is fundamentally calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and takes hundreds of millions of years to form. This seemingly mundane mineral has a...
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Sylvia Rose
Dec 12, 20244 min read
Silica, Silicon & Silicone: Differences & Similarities
Silica, silicon, and silicone refer to related but distinct substances with specific properties, applications, and origins. Silica is...
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