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  1. He used left,top, so these two elements overlap each other.. Without them elements would be one below another, not overlapping. Could be mixed with width,height. Or use JavaScript to set position and size at start up. Or even generate these elements dynamically.
  2. IMHO you should: - start recording voltage, to see if there is correlation. - try using voltage stabilizer (Zener diode f.e.) - start recording temperature (f.e. place thermometer and digital camera record its value for a start). - try using your circuit with batteries/accumulators to check whether there is difference or not. - move your apparatus to different room/apartment/city to see if there is difference. The more you will gather data, the less guessing.
  3. Why don't you show what voltage and amperage is on solar panel alone, and then the one which has concentrated beam of light from light bulb.. ? This way you will have the real data, and compare difference. If you don't have some solar panel (even such for toy), you could use f.e. photoresistor/photodiode/photoelement instead (they're pretty cheap to get from electronic equipment shop). Actually you could use round-bottom flask 1L+ from chemistry laboratory equipment shop. They have much larger diameter than light bulb.
  4. I am still not sure what for all this you need. Your examples from 1st post didn't blink at all here. Double buffering is useful to remove such blinking, while drawing, for a too long time, on on-screen bitmap. See answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2795269/does-html5-canvas-support-double-buffering Answer with 69 votes has code which is switching back and forth overlayed element. And draw to the one currently invisible. I realized that you could place one element over another element, same position, CSS or dynamically created. Then set background on deeper one, and draw text on "top" one, but in such way that text is on "top", the rest pass through whatever is below. Like while programming sprites with transparent regions.
  5. You could use the cheapest available 4L kitchen pot.. You should use with open fire only round-bottom flasks.. The one that are for hot plate are flat bottom.. If you put round-bottom flask to water/oil bath, pot will start jumping while cooking water, and could simply hit it, damage and destroy it.. Not a single word whether it's boro 3.3 or not.. I would not even touch it... Keep them. You will have spare when they will crack.. ps. What you bought, is damn expensive from my point of view. I paid $11 for 1L Boro 3.3 conical flask. And $40 for Deflegmator and Graham condenser in one set up (literally, single piece of glass). Also Boro 3.3. Your set up for $110 and even not Boro 3.3?! Your set up almost definitely cannot be used with open fire, as it's flat bottom flask! Components to set by yourself are even more cheaper: $11 for 1L conical flask, then <$10 for adapter with top for thermometer ($27 thermometer up to 300 C, $13 thermometer up to 150 C, $3 for stopper), and graham condenser (spiral!) for $13.. Output from graham condenser (not sure how it's called in English), $4. $11 + $10 + $27 + $13 + $4 = $65 (the funny thing I thought so it's expensive, here... looking at your prices, it looks like bargain..)
  6. Anti-proton has charge -1e, Electron has also charge -1e. So they are repelling each other. Similar like positron,pion+, repel with proton (or positively charged metal plate, electrode, if it's inside of vacuum and used to change path of particle like in mass-spectrometer/electron gun) Anti-proton has Baryon Number -1, Lepton Number 0, Proton has Baryon Number +1, Lepton Number 0, Positron has Baryon Number 0, Lepton Number -1, Electron has Baryon Number 0, Lepton Number +1. So you have input particles with B=-1,L=+1
  7. How you were performing distillation? Open fire heating round-bottom flask attached to lab stand? It has pretty small area which is heated at a time. Hot plate heating conical flask? Flask size should be appropriate to hot plate size. Using small size flask with huge hot plate for a long time could lead to damage of hot plate. Water/oil bath, with flask put to inside larger container (heated from the all sides by hot medium).. ? ps. I did ~ 600 distillations, in the last 1.5 year, with my non-Pyrex brand, however still Boro 3.3 flasks. Flasks didn't crack during distillations.
  8. You're seriously overestimating the power of "politician leaders"...
  9. Study suggest turning off mobile phone etc. devices to not be distracted every couple second when new SMS arrives..
  10. What with Robert Graves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Author of "I, Claudius" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius "King Jesus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Jesus "Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina" What with James Clavell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clavell "Shogun" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shōgun_(novel) "Tai-Pan" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai-Pan_(novel)
  11. I would bother more about hardware specification than OS.. (as long it's Windows) ps. Check whether your external devices are compatible with 10 (empirically, not just by reading websites)... If not, you might be screwed, having to buy more stuff like printer/scanner/digital camera etc. Really? I am comfortable only with WinXP.. And AmigaOS (especially with DOpus Magellan/MUI)...
  12. The more they would read Bible, the less they would read koran...
  13. In laboratory free neutrons are created by bombarding f.e. Deuterium by high energy alpha particle. [math]D^+ + 2.22 MeV \rightarrow p^+ + n^0[/math] (because Deuterium has the lowest energy needed to split it) There are some other unstable isotopes that after bombarding them with high energy particles are releasing free neutrons. F.e. Uranium-235 while fission release ~3 new free neutrons, after bombarding it by 1 free neutron. Neutron is unstable particle, with half-life ~10 minutes, mean-life ~15 minutes. So soon after creation, they decay back to: [math]n^0 \rightarrow p^+ + e^- + \bar{v}_e + 0.782 MeV[/math]
  14. Hello! I made paid application for Android. Published it. And noticed weird message "application is not compatible with your device" after going to Google Play Store website of my application, from either desktop computer and devices. They used to work with application when I was sending them through HTTP/FTP. There is plentiful of threads about "android application is not compatible with your device" on stackexchange etc. websites for programmers. But nothing what they wrote, worked in my case. (one of the most interesting was that some devices have partitions, and have to have application .apk file size smaller than f.e. 32 MB, otherwise devices (mentioned some HTC IIRC), refuse to work with app. People bypassed it by compressing PNG to JPG to reduce file size (obviously there could be used download further data from net by app, but much more complicated, and require your own servers forever available) ). So, I wrote to Google Support, and got following message: "Thanks for contacting Google Play Developer Support. Its against Google Payments policies to purchase your own app, and you'll receive an error message if you try to purchase your own app on Google Play. Its also normal to see the message This app is incompatible with all of your devices due to the same reason. If youd like see what your apps look like from the perspective of a Google Play user, I recommend logging into Google Play with an email address other than the primary email address for your Developer Console. Also, we do provide a method for developers to test their licensing-enabled apps. You can find more information about setting up a testing environment in the Android Developers Help Center. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Regards, Ginny W. Google Play Developer Support" My reply: "Thanks for reply. It makes some sense. But I would suggest changing message to f.e. "You cannot purchase your own application". You would save a ton of time replying for messages like mine own, if developers and users would know why their device is not supported. I saw on Internet plentiful people have problems with "device is unsupported". The more clearer will be explained why it's not supported, the easier will be to find solution... So if f.e. app requires camera, extend message "Application is not supported by your device because [you have no camera] or other message (if app requires some hardware not present in device). etc etc. Just mine suggestion. Send it to higher level manager." Would you like to add something to my reply to Google Developer Support.. ? Best Regards!
  15. "The typical visual absolute magnitude of Type Ia supernovae is Mv = −19.3 (about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun), with little variation.[14]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_Ia_supernova
  16. Even your old CRT TV is particle accelerator.. The largest cost is purchase of vacuum pump device (~$600). Vacuum flask could be used ($10 the last time I bought it 1L volume). Both from chemistry equipment shop. Rectifying diodes and capacitors for Cockcroft-Walton high voltage generator from electronic shop (you could use it also for discharge tube with some gas as medium and observe spectral lines of different gases). The rest of needed things could be found on scrapyard. Build Cloud Chamber to observe cosmic rays, and unstable element isotopes decays.. Cost $50 or so. Aquarium could be reused lated. You should start from finding local supplier of dry ice.
  17. What the real advantages you would have from this display type? Unable to use in darkness,night.. Disadvantage. Little power consumption less. My 24" LED monitor, takes 19.3 W (just measured with watt meter), while the rest of desktop machine up to 500 W (probably average around 200-300 W). That's 5-10% energy less used. 19.3 W * 3600s * 14h/d * 30 d/m / 3.6e6 = 8.106 kWh per month * 0.62 / 3.78 = $1.33 on electricity bill less per month. That's 5% of my total. Optimization always should be started from things that are consuming the most of energy/money/time etc. If you optimize computer program, you run profiler, informing which function is running the slowest and CPU spend the most of its time. You don't start optimize from things that would give barely difference.
  18. If somebody would have NaOH placed in container that is not hermetic, NaOH+CO2 (from air, for months/years) -> NaHCO3 and Na2CO3 After adding almost any stronger acid will release CO2 gas bubbles. From my wikipedia of Sodium Hydroxide, Google translated: "The solid white substance of the crystal structure . It is hygroscopic , easily also combines with carbon dioxide from the air ( forming a coating of sodium carbonate ), so it should be kept in tightly closed containers ." (there would be needed also some red acid to mimics OP observations). ps. I do agree that it's most likely indicator, from what EE described.
  19. Then why do you introduce it? Nobody mentioned measuring gas density, prior you. I said only about measuring gas volume, in graduated cylinder.. Not really, if you don't know concentration. f.e. ethanol mixed with water has density between 0.789 g/cm3 to 1.0 g/cm3 If it's 100% ethanol, 0% water, density is 0.789 g/cm3, If it's 0% ethanol, 100% water, density is 1 g/cm3. If there are used both, density is somewhere in between them. (let's pretend air pressure doesn't matter)
  20. If it releases gas during reaction, you should measure precise mass of either compound, and put graduated cylinder above it, to catch gas and measure its volume. 1 L = ~ 0.04464 mol at room temperature or so. So you will know how much mass/moles of NaOH gave which volume of gas in result. Then check out which gas it is. If it's Hydrogen, fire will cause explosion. If it's Oxygen, fire should be more intense. If it's non-flammable gas, such as Carbon Dioxide or Nitrogen, fire should disappear. According to Internet methyl red is red solid, not (or barely) soluble in water, and soluble in ethanol.
  21. I am using coffee grinder, bought just to mill chemical compounds, then could be used mortar and pestle to smash it even more to fine dust.
  22. Some people in the past mentioned it's related (at least in their case) to used web browser. They said they can quote in one web browser, and can't quote in other one. I am using Mozilla Firefox, and quote function works as expected (as you can see above). You could do it manually though. Just enter [ quote ] prior text, and [ /quote ] after text, without spaces obviously. Eventually switch to raw text mode (the top left button in full editor), then you can copy/edit the all tags. How can you not being able to copy text from website? It's built-in web browser functionality. Web site must intercept RMB context menu to prevent user from using copy functionality (but it still can be bypassed by using Show Source Code). Maybe it's unexpected revelation of virus/Trojan/browser extension/plugin installed and intercepting your data.. ?
  23. Plutonium-238 half-life is just 87.7 years. It's manmade and utilized by humans. Plutonium-244 half-life is 8.00(9)*107 years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_plutonium How can galaxy be rich with Plutonium if it'll all decay within couple hundred millions years? It would have to be produced in larger amount than is decaying..
  24. I saw your video on YouTube where you are showing your solar panels. What I would do is connect them to voltmeter, ampere meter, place above them digital camera, in time lapse mode (f.e. make photo every 1 minute). Send frames to computer, glue them together to movie, and check how it's changing over one whole day (with 30 FPS, 1 minute delay timelapse, 18h would be 36 seconds long) Do you have some old satellite dish? Its curvature could be used to make template. Use f.e. paper put for a few seconds to water, and place on satellite dish, many pages of paper, until you have something looking like dish, but paper one. Wait until its dry. It should be pretty solid (but not waterproof, so you could try painting it to protect it). Place and glue on it broken to little pieces mirrors. Then use it to concentrate Sun energy on your solar panels, and record timelapse video from whole day again, to compare difference. If there will be significant improvement, prepare couple such "concentrators".
  25. Which rock do you have in mind.. ? Pretty common rock is Calcium Carbonate CaCO3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate It's remains of dead millions years ago sea living organisms, such as shells of snails, trilobites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite "The exoskeleton is composed of calcite and calcium phosphate minerals in a lattice of chitin that covers the upper surface (dorsal) of the trilobite" Blended to dust, mixed with a lot of water, it could be used as cheap way to decrease acidity, fertilizer, or to fight with pest (f.e. paint bottom of fruit trees) Prior using it you should check pH of your soil (electronic device can be bought for $10 in Leroy Merlin), and read requirements of every your plant. Wrong fertilizer or too large dose can kill them. You can check whether you have CaCO3 by using dust with acetic acid. It should make Calcium Acetate and release plentiful of Carbon Dioxide gas. Calcium Acetate, unlike Calcium Carbonate, is pretty good soluble in water, so used dust should disappear.
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