Extracting Salt from Water Ocean water is salty. So if you were out on the ocean in a little boat and were thirsty, you would not be able to drink the salty ocean water. The salt in it will make one feel thirstier. In some places around the world, oceans dried up long ago and left the salt behind. You can show how salt is left, when the salt water evaporates....
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June 20, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourScience ProjectsNo Comment
How Soil Erodes What happens if you water a flower bed, without attaching a sprinkler on the end of the garden hose? The soil will probably scatter out of the bed, leaving big holes behind. This is why people use sprinkling cans and hoses to water flower pots and gardens. “Erosion” is the process by which soil is washed away from the surface of the earth, by the action of water....
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June 20, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourScience ProjectsNo Comment
Classifying Rocks No matter where you live, be it in the city or out on the plains, rocks can be found just about anywhere. There are various kinds of rocks in your community because they have been brought in your neighbourhood from different places. Rocks are used to make driveways, rock gardens and home decors. They are also used for landscaping, drainage, monuments and building structures. Collect twenty different rocks from...
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June 20, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourScience ProjectsNo Comment
Seasonal Changes The earth’s distance towards the sun does not signify how hot or cold the temperature is. Seasonal changes are caused because of the earth’s revolution round the sun and also due to the earth’s tilt of 23 degrees. It is because of the changes in this tilt that causes the changes in the way in which the sunlight hits the earth’s surface. When it is summer in the northern...
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June 20, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourChemistry 12, Physics 12, Science ProjectsNo Comment
Take Time by The Forelock The common figure of Old Father Time represents him as having a small curly lock drooping over his forehead: otherwise he is as bald as a new-born babe. Shakespeare (King John, tn. i) calls him 7 “Old Time, the clock-seller: that bald sexton, Time.” The origin of our phrase goes back to the time of Thales of Miletus (636-546 B.C.), and the underlying idea seems to...
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June 14, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Put In Jeopardy Day by day his life he gan ieoparte To fore their walles for to preve his mighte. —LYDGATE Cbron of Tray The modern sense of the word “jeopardy,” whether substantive or verbal, means: to be in extreme danger of loss ; as though one might say that the Great War put civilization in great jeopardy. Strange as it may appear, the words “joke” and “jeopardy” are closely related,...
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June 14, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), eVirtualGuru, LanguagesNo Comment
At All Hazards When we say that we will undertake a certain venture “at all hazards,” we mean that we shall be prepared to stake. all we have on the risk of defeat and consequent total loss. Soldiers and sailors, it has been remarked in other notes, have been responsible for the introduction into our language of many words: Some of these words were coined from the faulty pronunciation, on one...
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June 14, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Cut Off The Nose To Spite The Face “He that smites his nose and has it not, forfeits his face to the king.” —Old proverb. To cut off the nose to spite the face is said of one who, Ito be revenged on his neighbour, materially injures himself. (Grose: Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796). The origin of this phrase is probably based on the story of a man who, having...
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June 14, 2020 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment