20 Things You Didn't Know About Water

The five facts that I didn't know about water are one that in 1999 it was discovered that a brand of spring water was getting it's water from a well next to a industrial park near a hazardous waste dump. I mean what the heck that makes me not want to drink water. I'd prefer not to know where it's coming from I'm just hoping that it's not coming from there. The second new fact that I learned about is that under the ocean there is more and scientists say that their could be more water under the ocean than in it. I think that this is super cool who knew that more water was just waiting under the water we already have. That's great because it could also mean that we may never run out of because what if there is more water under the water that's under the ocean. The third fact that I thought was interesting but I knew a little about it already was water intoxication. It basically means that you drink to much water and your body can't handle it causing you die. This has happened to a number of Amateur marathon runners die this way. The third thing that I found was interesting was this. Everyone knows how doctors tell them to drink up to eight glasses of water per a day. Well there is no scientific evidence that can support this fact. This means that we can now drink less water than we already were. The four new fact about water that I didn't already know was this. New evidence has come out stating that about 4.5 billion years ago some comets had liquid cores. If this statement is true then life may have begun on a comet now how cool is that. The fifth and final cool fact I learn was this. Did you know that the international space station collects 93% of the astronauts perspiration and urine and turns it back into water. As gross as that sounds it's pretty cool and smart and for people who don't know much about it like me it makes you ask a lot of questions like how do they even do that?
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1. The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this
water.

http://www.lenntech.com/water-trivia-facts.htm

2.Water is the only substance that is found naturally on earth in three forms: liquid, gas, solid.


http://www.aqwest.wa.gov.au/Schools/WaterFacts.aspx

3.One liter of spilled petrol can pollute 750,000 liters of water.


http://www.rivers.gov/waterfacts.html

4. If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/waterfacts.html

5. Sap of plants and blood of animals contain large quantities of water.

Going Going Gone article reflection

The article going going gone is about how helium, the second most common substance in the universe is one of the most difficult substances to find on earth. Though it can be found in America. Outside of Amarillo, Texas is the largest concentration of helium on earth. So when people here they normally think that everything is fine. We have plenty of helium when they should know that we don't. What I found out from this article that was quiet interesting was that America has two of the worlds largest concentrations of helium. One outside of Amarillo, Texas and one under the great plains. But one thing that worries me is that when helium is gone then we'll lose some important things like helium balloons, and even space programs. But why don't we just save our helium. Why sell it to others when we need it for ourselves. It sounds shellfish to think that way but why not. Well one reason is the FHR's lightly large debt. The FHR ( Federal Helium Reserve) which began in 1925 when the helium was discovered. Well since then the FHR has been massing a large debt through their experiments and their research. So because of this they are forced to sell some of their helium to other countries where helium is in demand like China, and India.

Questions

1. Why is the element helium so rare on earth, yet abundant throughout the universe. This question I found a little hard to answer. Some parts of the article say that these natural gas pockets developed from decaying radioactive elements. Maybe that is becoming harder and harder to produce or that it's just not common or like the article said earth once had plenty of helium but it was burned off by the sun eons ago.

2. What do we need helium for anyway? Well for starters kids won't have epic balloons at birthday parties. Nor will they get bouncy castle's. Also space programs will not be possible without the helium the rockets won't take off and land safely. And finally MRI machines won't be able to work either.

3.What could we do about this problem? Honestly I haven't a clue. Maybe we should find new elements for rockets and such and save up our helium for when we most need it.

Homework

When the Lithium first hits the water all that happens is that it begins to bubble up. Then about three seconds later it catches on fire and begins to float around in the water. Then finally after about ten seconds of floating it burns out.


This video was kind of short but this is what happened. The very second that the cesium hit the water it exploded. The explosion was cool it looked like fireworks.


In this video the second that the potassium hits the water it catches on fire and begins to move around. Now as it's moving around it appears that it is getting a purplish glare. Now it just might be the camera but I thought that it was odd.


When this video begins nothing at all is happening. Then the alcohol's color changes to yellow. Then a red liquid comes from under the bromine and spreads through the whole cup. Then it begins to bubble and it overflows. Then as all of the foam is out the bromine has been dissolved and is gone.


This video had two experiments both we have already seen but these ones had major explosions in both of them. In the first one the sodium enters the water, bubbles up and then catches fire moves around then out of nowhere makes a massive explosion out of nowhere. It was pretty awesome. Next one the potassium enters then bubbles up then as well makes a large explosion but after the first explosion your kind of expecting it.

I feel that this one was one of the dumbest experiments. Well it's not dumb it's just not that interesting to me. What happens is that a man takes some liquid nitrogen and throws it into the water. Then a thick smoke covers the pool it was put in making it look a little odd.


Now this gummy bear experiment is one of the coolest I've ever seen. First the guy as some sort of liquid in a test tube. Then he inserts the gummy bear into the test tube and then the whole test tube sets on fire. After the fire goes out the gummy bear is gone burned away by the liquid.


I thought that this experiment was also pretty cool. First the liquid is just sitting their doing nothing then this huge amount of foam comes out of nowhere and begins to overflow like crazy. One cool thing about this video is that the foam keeps changing color from white to gray and finally to a blackish color.