Facts in "Plants" Category
#2689 - Plants Fact     -1  The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors. |
| #2690 - Plants Fact 0 The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm. |
| #2691 - Plants Fact 1 Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. |
| #2692 - Plants Fact 9 On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity. |
| #2693 - Plants Fact 2 Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper. |
| #2694 - Plants Fact -2 Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper. |
| #2695 - Plants Fact 1 A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass. |
| #2696 - Plants Fact 2 A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block. |
| #2697 - Plants Fact 0 An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb. |
| #2698 - Plants Fact 1 At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale. |
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