We come across pentagons every day. Take a close look at a house. The outline of the house when viewed from the side has five sides and five angles. This makes it a pentagon. Pentagons are shapes with five angles and five straight sides. Penta is a prefix that means five. Gon is a suffix …
When we go out to eat, how often do we worry about food poisoning? You probably shouldn’t worry because HACCP may have you covered. This is a system designed to keep everybody safe so that they can enjoy their dinner out without worrying about falling ill from bad food. But is your favorite restaurant following …
In many synthetic chemical processes, reality often doesn’t line up with theory. Real-world chemical reactions tend to throw up results that differ somewhat from what our nicely written chemical reactions expect. For example, impurities get in the way to mess up things. Or the reaction may not run to completion. This leaves stuff behind that …
Cars get their energy from gasoline stored in engines. Solar-powered households get their electrical energy from solar batteries packed with chemical fuel stores captured from sunlight. But how is energy stored in your body for its later convenient use? This is where cellular respiration comes in. Cellular respiration is a collection of reactions through which …
The short answer is: No. There are only five platonic solids in nature and no hope of inventing the sixth. Platonic solids are geometric shapes where all the faces are identical. All the faces also meet at the same three-dimensional angles. The five platonic solids include: Icosahedron (twenty faces) The dodecahedron (twelve faces) The octahedron …
Animal Farm is an allegory written by George Orwell in 1945. It is a story about farm animals that rebelled and expelled their human owner, hoping to create an environment where all animals were free, happy, and equal. In their new life, the animals decided to abide by Animalism principles in the form of seven …
In literature, symbolism is the use of objects for the purpose of portraying a different and deeper meaning of the story. Volpe (101) argues that symbols are representative of the qualities or ideas that the writer includes in their story to depict the underlying layers of meaning. As evident in A Rose for Emily, stories …