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2 August 2020

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Morning or Evening star

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MORNING OR EVENING STAR Have you ever seen the bright star shining during sunset? Image from space.com Venus planet is the morning or evening star which we can see with our naked eye. The bright shining star seen during sunset is the venus planet. Its position is either west or east. Its temperature is 460 °C as it is closer to sun. It's atmosphere is made of carbondioxide and hence have powerful Greenhouse effect. Volcanic eruptions had occured 800million years ago. It is covered with lava. Image from Planetary society

WALKING TREE

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Have you ever heard of WALKING TREE?   Socratea exorrhiza , is a kind of palm tree.  It is found in rainforests of tropical Central and South America.  It is about 15–20 m tall and 12 cm in diameter palm tree has 2m stilt roots which appear as legs. It walks to pursue Light. But how is it possible?  It develops new stilts in the direction of light while other roots die off. Thus it moves in the desired direction. These trees take single step in three months.

Separation of semi permeable membrane from an Egg

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How to separate semi permeable membrane from an Egg?     The materials required for this process are Raw egg, Concentrated Hydrochloric acid, Glass Beaker, Glass rod, Gloves  PROCEDURE : Take a beaker and pour Conc.Hcl in a quantity that the whole egg should sink. We can dilute Hcl to some extent by adding water to it. Put the egg into the beaker so that full egg should sink into it. Keep it for 4 hours. During this time the shell slowly disintegrates into the solution. After 4 hours we can take it out. Pinch the membrane and drain all the contents of it. This is called semi permeable membrane and we can use this to study osmosis process.    

Do fish need to drink water?

Do Fish drink water????   The answer is Yes and NO . But how?? Here we have to consider both Freshwater fish and salt water fish In case of Freshwater fish:   Freshwater fish is surrounded by water having low concentration when compared to its body. As a result, water is drawn into its body through the process of Osmosis.           (Definition of Osmosis: The process of movement of solvent from low concentration                          to high concentration through a semi permeable membrane is called osmosis)                       Semi permeabe membrane allows only certain substances to pass through. For                        example if you want to separate this membrane you can do it with Egg.       3.  Now if the fish does...