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Students will make a 2-D model of a salt crystal and use water molecule cutouts to show how water dissolves salt. After seeing an animation of water dissolving salt, students will compare how well ...
Have students draw a model of water dissolving salt on the molecular level. On the Activity Sheet, have students describe what happens during the dissolving process when water dissolves salt. Students ...
The molecular model of common salt was created by Scots-born chemist Prof Alexander Crum Brown in 1883. Knitting enthusiast Prof Crum Brown built the model while at Edinburgh University.
How bacteria sense salt stress Date: July 6, 2012 ... accompanied by molecular biology and biochemistry, ... This protein movement may provide a unified model of how bacteria sense their environment.
But finding the molecular switches that cause the body to overproduce TH17 ... Both Kuchroo and Hafler found that in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, a high-salt diet accelerated the disease ...
Building a better salt trap: Scientists synthesize a molecular 'cage' to trap chloride New molecule could help reduce growing level of salt contaminants flowing into freshwater streams and lakes ...
Salt is to be admired for its atomic beauty and proof of order in the universe. Our astrophysicist friend Adam Frank says you can find some good news in something as simple as a single grain of salt.
The ability of crop plants to tolerate high salt concentrations is an agriculturally useful trait. A new study in rice shows that allelic variation in OsHKT8, which encodes a Na+ transporter ...