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1 All About Elements: Carbon http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Carbon 1. Graphine, an allotrope of carbon, is the strongest, thinnest, and best conductor of heat known to man. It was creat...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Schist Type: Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance: Fine to coarse-grained strongly foliated. Granoblastic grading into porphyrob- lastic, with mineral segregation banding usually present. Individual miner...

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1 All About Elements: Lithium https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental lithium can float in mineral oil. 2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other t...

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1 All About Elements: Beryllium http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 3 Fun Facts About… Beryllium 1. Prior to being named beryllium, this element was known as glucinium, which originated from the Greek word gly...

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1 All About Elements: Fluorine http://wardsci.com https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 Ward’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry The periodic table of elements is an esse...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Conglomerate Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Coarse-grained rock containing rounded to subangular clasts of greater than 2mm in diameter scattered in a finer-grained matrix of sand, silt, and/o...

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1 All About Elements: Neon https://wardsci.com/store wardsci.com | 800-962-2660 2 Ward’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry The periodic table of elements is an essential part of any chemi...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Metaconglomerate Type: Metamorphic, regional. Texture/Appearance: Coarse-grained rock containing rounded to subangular clasts greater than 2mm in diameter and distributed in a fine-grained matrix or metamorphi...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Anorthosite Type: Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance: Medium to coarse-grained, equigranular with elongated tabular plagioclase. Color: Dark gray to bluish-gray, sometimes lighter shades. Mineralogy/Chemis...

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Page 1 Bacteria and Fungus Conditions for Customer Ownership We are a USDA compliant facility and hold all necessary permits to transport our organisms. Each state is assisted by the USDA to determine which organisms can be transported across stat...

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Page 1 Bufo Toad Species: marinus Genus: Bufo Family: Ranaidae Order: Anura Class: Amphibia Phylum: Chordata Kingdom: Animalia Conditions for Customer Ownership We are a USDA compliant facility and hold all necessary permits to transport our organ...

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The power of twelve, the convenience of one. • Twelve or more integrated probes in each wireless unit, available for Biology/Chemistry, Physics, General Science and Environmental Science • Lowest price per probe when compared to other classroom pr...

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Page 1 Density Columns Recommended Grade Level(s): Appropriate for: Middle school and High school Time Requirements: Activity Time: 30 minutes Teaching Topics & Concepts: • Density, mass, separation methods, solubility, diffusion, immiscibility, h...

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The Plus is Us. Your Texas Personal Account Managers: [email protected] + [email protected] + [email protected] instructional content: +Hypotheses on Origin of Life • Miller-Urey experiment • Iron-sulfur • RNA +Dating fossils • Relative dating...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Sandstone Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Grains generally sand-sized (1/16–2mm), normally sorted and somewhat rounded. May be poorly to well cemented. May also display visible fossils (not par...

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