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Score: 4.1/5 (21 votes) The halogens can act as oxidising agents by gaining electrons to form halide ions. The oxidising ability decreases down the group with fluorine being the strongest oxidising agent.Are halogens oxidizing or reducing agents?Explaining the trend. Down the group, the ease with wh...
Score: 4.4/5 (46 votes) Optimal lingonberry growing conditions will have a soil pH of 5.0 in well-draining soil rich in organic matter. Plan to plant in the spring after all danger of frost has passed. Dig a hole that is a few inches deeper than the rootball and wide enough to allow for spreading ro...
Score: 4.5/5 (51 votes) The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was passed after the Civil War, made indentured servitude illegal in the U.S. Today, it is banned in almost all countries.Are there still indentured servants in the US?But while slavery is illegal, it has not disappe...
Score: 4.3/5 (17 votes) The snowy period of the year lasts for 5.1 months, from October 21 to March 23, with a sliding 31-day snowfall of at least 1.0 inches. The month with the most snow in Hainan is November, with an average snowfall of 2.2 inches. The snowless period of the year lasts for 6.9 mon...
Score: 4.2/5 (71 votes) : jointed or constricted at regular intervals so as to resemble a string of beads a moniliform root moniliform insect antennae.What does the word hyaline mean?1 : something (such as the clear atmosphere) that is transparent. 2 or hyalin \ ˈhī-ə-lən \ : any of several transl...
Score: 4.7/5 (70 votes) Marvel Entertainment, LLC is an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 and based in New York City, New York formed by the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and ToyBiz.Are there only 23 Marvel movies?When it comes to watching the Marvel movies in order, t...
Score: 4.7/5 (13 votes) Trilobites had the first real complex eyes (that we know of). They were compound eyes, which are eyes that have many separate clusters of photo receptors, called ommatidia, each with it's own lens that then turn all those bits of information into a mosaic-like picture in...
Score: 4.1/5 (23 votes) Cooking the taro root thoroughly destroys enough of the oxalate to make the vegetable edible (wear gloves when handling as taro can irritate the skin), but not for dogs.What happens if dog eats taro?When consumed, the oxalic acid found in the taro plant releases raphides, whi...
Score: 4.4/5 (33 votes) “Within the city walls the population has decreased in recent years. ... The Dubrovnik Times spoke to a popular travel guide and local of the Old City of Dubrovnik, Ivan Vuković, who is in the front line of tourism in the city. When asked if tourism had killed Dubrovnik he re...
Score: 4.2/5 (17 votes) When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it does not immediately target red blood cells. Instead, it seeks refuge inside the liver and rapidly reproduces, copying itself as many as 30,00...
