Posted on Dec 30, 2019
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Exactly the line I had pulled to use as an example of how NOT to learn science or English. This is the kind of BS that stands for education now.
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SSG Robert Webster - In my view, what is being neglected is that the United States, by itself, cannot make a significant dent in climate change or improvement... If we, as a people, want to improve the quality of climate change, we all can start by recycling plastics on a global basis and not flood our streams, rivers, and oceans with empty plastic bottles! Colleges and Universities should be teaching students how to take care of our planet instead of trashing it... Just saying!
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“At Granada Hills Charter, Coral is learning about plastic waste and water in multiple 10th-grade classes – in chemistry she learned about how salt and plastic bond. In social studies, she had to create a website on the history of water use in the U.S.”
Could someone explain this to me? That is how salt and plastic bonds?
And how is the 'history of water use in the US,' any different than the rest of the world, and why create a website, unless it was for credit in computer science (not mentioned)?
Could someone explain this to me? That is how salt and plastic bonds?
And how is the 'history of water use in the US,' any different than the rest of the world, and why create a website, unless it was for credit in computer science (not mentioned)?
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Col Joseph Lenertz
You know how salt and plastic bond? Very weakly. The Na+CL- ionic bonding the salt molecule is quite strong and without some external heat driver (using energy) there would be virtually no interaction at all. Witness plastic surviving in the ocean for many years. But Granada Hills is not interested in actual chemistry...they are interested in pushing and causing others to push (via websites) a particular agenda.
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SSG Robert Webster
Col Joseph Lenertz - i.e. Without a significantly large heat source which would liquify the sodium chloride, which then in turn vaporize the plastic (therefore eliminating most if not all of it). OK, got it.
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