MAGIC CANDLES

Ever wondered on Birthday celebrations how the magic candle work here is the answer for that.

The wick contains an oxidiser, probably potassium nitrate, and a high energy fuel, either aluminum (aluminium to you brits) or magnesium in addition to the cellulose fibre of the wick.

After the candle is blown out, the wick continues to glow red hot, the fuel of the cellulose oxidising fast enough to produce the red glow, but not to re-ignite the petroleum fumes from the newly extinguished flame.

Then the red-hot wick ignites the metal speck, and it burns very hot, if you watch, you will see little miniature fireworks flashes.

These are hot enough to light the wax fumes, and the candle is burning "again."

Vegans and Veggies

Vegetarians do not eat meat and depending upon their morals or preferences, may or may not eat eggs or dairy. Most commonly, they do eat eggs and dairy. There are two types of vegetarians:

• Lacto-Oval Vegetarians: These don’t eat any flesh of animals but they eat eggs, milk products, any dish prepared with animal fats.
• Vegetarians: These don’t eat any flesh or byproducts but they still use soaps and lotion made with animal fats and collagen, wear leather and fur of animals.

Meanwhile Vegans do not consume, use, or buy any product derived from animals, including eggs, milk, honey, leather, wool, beeswax, and anything dyed red, in case it's an insect based dye. They also don’t ingest any animal products not even through the skin (soaps and lotion). Nutritionally, the only difference is that vegans need to take a B12 and amino acid supplement, since they have no dietary source of these nutrients.

Spectraframe

Spectraframe is used when your customer is away from your product but through its video interactive system it can provide knowledgeble sales presence and consistentmessages, right at the moment when the sale is about to happen.

Why wedding ring should put on the fourth finger???

This is from a Chinese excerpt - really interesting.


Thumb represents parents
Second finger represents brothers & sisters
Center finger represents own self
Fourth finger represents your partner
Last finger represents your children

Follow the steps below:

¨ Firstly, show your palm, center finger bend and put together back to back

¨ Secondly, the rest 4 fingers tips to tips

Games begin, follow the arrangement below, 5 fingers but only 1 pair can split.




Try to open your thumb, the thumb represents parents, it can be open because all human does go thru sick and dead. Which are our parents will leave us one day.
Please close up your thumb and then open your second finger, the finger represent brothers and sisters, they do have their own family which is why they will leave us too.
Now close up your second finger, open up your little finger, this represents your children. Sooner or later they too will leave us for they got their own living to live.
Nevertheless, close up your little finger, try to open your fourth finger which we put our wedding ring; you will be surprised to find that it cannot be opened at all. Because it represents husband and wife, this whole life you will be attached to each other. Real love will stick together ever and forever....

GLOBAL WARMING

Global warming is a natural phenomenon. But we make it worse which happens every few thousand years anyway. Did you ever know the fact that when dinosaurs were around the Earth was on average 20 degrees warmer than it is today?

Global warming is now a fact, although it is still disputed whether it is a natural cycle or man created or something in between. It’s going to have a big effect in the next 50 years for sure. We have already heard icebergs breaking off from the Arctic and Antarctic (e.g. New Zealand is seeing icebergs for the first time in 38 years); glaciers are melting; the gulf stream is said to be slowing down; animals are moving northward; the polar bear may go extinct shortly; birds are nesting earlier; species are dying off faster (e.g. 70% of a certain variety of frogs have died because of habitat warming).

The effects are already starting and will be like a snowball rolling down a hill, as time progresses, they will become more pronounced and have more effect on our day to day lives. So yes it will have a big effect. Also global warming is not the half of it, we still have overpopulation, pollution and things like overtaxing our natural resources to contend with – look at the report that commercial fishing may collapse in the next couple of decades.

Global warming is also going to do something that you may not have thought about – Venice will be underwater entirely; New York will look like Venice and most coastal cities in the world will have a fate similar to these two cities. It won't take a hurricane to sink New Orleans which already sits below sea level. The bright side is it may eliminate some of our overpopulation problem!! Ha Ha…

PLUTONIUM: The Most Dangerous of All

Nuclear power reactors produce a mixture of plutonium radio nuclides. There is no doubt that plutonium, deposited in the human lung is a powerful producer of lung cancer. Approximately five millionths of a single gram of reactor plutonium deposited in the lung will do it.

On August 6, 1945, the US government exploded a uranium bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. Over 100,000 people were killed instantly. Three days later, a plutonium bomb destroyed Nagasaki, immediately killing 70,000 people. Many thousands more have since died from the ongoing effects of radiation poisoning.

Plutonium, a by-product of nuclear fission technology is the deadliest substance ever made by humans. Because it is so toxic and can be used to make nuclear weapons plutonium-fueled reactors are an extraordinarily dangerous way to generate electricity.
All nuclear power reactors (both uranium- and plutonium-fueled) produce waste materials containing plutonium, as well as other radioactive substances that can be used to make nuclear bombs. Thus, every nation that has nuclear power is a potential nuclear weapons state.

How to make a nuclear bomb is no longer a secret. The hardest part of making a nuclear weapon is getting the plutonium. Four-fifths of the plutonium in the world today has been produced by commercial nuclear power reactors. This spread of plutonium through nuclear power has increased the number of potential nuclear weapons states to 44. The five declared nuclear weapons nations – the US, the Russia, the UK, France and China – are only one-ninth of the real "nuclear club."

Japan is acquiring one of the world's largest civilian stockpiles of plutonium by shipping its spent fuel halfway around the world to France and Britain and back for reprocessing into plutonium. Japan, therefore, has the potential to become a major nuclear weapons power in a short time. Other countries that have attempted to develop commercial Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs) – including the US, Britain, Germany and Russia – have abandoned them.

The reprocessing of used reactor fuel also creates highly radioactive wastes. Even the nuclear industry estimates that the quantity of wastes requiring long-term isolation from the environment is increased nearly ten-fold as a consequence of reprocessing.

Finally, all nuclear power reactors and places where quantities of radioactive material are stored could be as dangerous as nuclear weapon explosions. If they become the object of terrorist activity, military bombardment or sabotage, radioactive material could spread on a vast and devastating scale.

CORK

Cork is a material that grows as the bark of the Cork Oak tree. More than half of the world's cork originates in Southern Portugal. The bark of the Cork Oak tree is harvested about every 9 or 10 years, and it is allowed to dry for 1 to 2 years. Next it is boiled to remove any toxins or other harmful agents, and then it is graded and cut. After a final cleaning and drying, the cork is sorted and ready for use.

Cork is most commonly used for wine bottle stoppers, but it can also be found in bulletin boards, flotation devices, and floor tiles. Worldwide cork demand is on the rise primarily due to increasing wine consumption. Ramping up cork production, however, is a lengthy process since cork trees can only be harvested about once per decade. Synthetic cork has been developed to satiate the growing demand.