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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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Working with Planaria © 2021 Ward’ s Science. All rights reserved. Rev. 2021 https://www.wardsci.com/store/ Page 2 Planaria are free-living aquatic flatworms known as Turbellarians, of the phylum Platyhelminthes (Greek for “flatworm”). Turbellaria...

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wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Breccia Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Coarse-grained, angular rock fragments cemented in a fine- to very fine-grained matrix. Clasts have sharp edges. Color: Variable. Mineralogy/Chemistry: Composition va...

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Page 1 Species: mexicanum Genus: Ambystoma Family: Ambystomatidae Order: Caudata Class: Amphibia Phylum: Chordata Kingdom: Animalia Conditions for Customer Ownership We are a USDA compliant facility and hold all necessary permits to transport our ...

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wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Granite Type: Igneous, intrusive. Texture/Appearance: Massive, medium to coarse-grained; holocrystalline, sometimes porphyritic. Color: White, light gray, pink, or red. Mineralogy/Chemistry: Felsic; composed primarily of q...

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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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Conditions for Customer Ownership We hold permits allowing us to transport these organisms. To access permit conditions, click here. Never purchase living specimens without having a disposition strategy in place. An end-user permit is required in ...

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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Limestone Type: Sedimentary; chemical or clastic. Texture/Appearance: Fine to coarsely crystalline; varieties may be dense, compact and graded to brecciated, styliolitic, or oolitic. Stratification usually ind...

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Mineral Specimens Discover the widest selection of mineral specimens, hand-selected from around the globe for their exquisite detail and noteable features for hands-on study, research, and display. Choose individual specimens, or let us build a co...

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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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+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Quartzite Type: Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance: Massive, with generally small grain size; sometimes saccharoidal. Grain size (sand size, 1/16-2mm) dependent on original detritus. Generally non-folia...

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