Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts

11/11/2009

Benefits of medicinal waters


The medicinal springs are those with a high content of minerals and other components available (eg carbonic acid), having a temperature in excess of twenty degrees centigrade (the famous hot springs or baths).

The medicinal waters are used for healing in the form of subsistence water, inhalation and baths, and according to their composition are used in different pathologies:

• Brackish water: they show its effects on asthma, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular problems.

• Water Sulphated: fighting gastrointestinal pathologies.

• Water hydrocarbonated: these are indicated to treat hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

• sulphurous waters: are ideal for joint problems, cases of acne, psoriasis and neurodermatitis.

• Hot Springs: for all types of musculoskeletal disorders.

10/13/2008

Dreaming of water - Meaning

Water is perhaps the drink par excellence, and several meanings can be decoded by its appearance in dreams. Make or receive a glass of water indicates that we need relief or consolation. This dream is also widely known as a harbinger of health and prosperity.

But we must not forget that water symbolizes everything
you need to know about the feelings and emotions, and therefore, to drink water or wish to do so may be a sign of the need we have in our life that we have more affection. Offering someone a glass of water in our dreams reveals tranquility and peace of mind, as it shows that we consider ourselves as pious people and solidarity with our fellow human beings.

10/08/2008

The bathrooms in favor immersion skin?

Water is not only beneficial to swallow but working from the outside. A good bath soak can be done for therapeutic purposes. The liquid medium can vary.

Can be bathrooms with sea salt (sedatives and initiators of the movement) with added oils, ideal for dry skin or waters that have special healing properties and are working to beautification and restoration of the skin.

7/07/2008

The enigmatic poliwater: great discovery

One of the most controversial cases occurred in the late 1960, when a group of scientists at the Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow announced the discovery of a new form of water.
There was a theoretical speculation: SONET displaying photographs of their trials and provided small samples in fine quartz tubes.

Boris V. Deryagin, one of the greatest experts in chemical surface, this discovery led to the West, who had made the physicist Nikolai Fedyakin.
His talk in the classic "Discussions of the Faraday Society", held in 1966, scientists capitalists made aware of their wonderful properties: Hervé at 150 ° C, frozen at 40 ° C and issue a viscosity comparable to syrup.

What happened was peculiar. Imagine that sealed a little water within a hair of quartz. The liquid reaches a certain height, but soon a second column appears at the top of the tube that seems to be growing at the expense of which is located underneath.
It is not strange to assume that part evaporates and condenses above, but the pressure and temperature inside the tube must be the same anywhere, so there is no reason for the water to behave that way.

The only way to explain it is assumed that the liquid from the upper part different from that goal in the capillary. Does this mean that a liquid may take another structure? After all, this happens with ice ... That was the reasoning of the Russians.

The water huraño

Henry Cavendish was born in Nice in 1731. From eccentric character and confused, lived his entire life as an inmate: detestable company of other men and terrorized him by the women to such an extent that forbade their maids crossed with him.

Cavendish took his passion in science and experience, his obsession. His devotion was such that in his experiments on electricity measured the intensity of the flow by gravity of the suffering downloads: used himself as ammeter! Cavendish was the first to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen.

According to his personality, she did not mind at all the fame you could bring this forward and barely was concerned that other scientists knew about their investigations.
He lived by and for science in total solitude and even when his health was broken, as demanded death had lived, alone.

The anomaly of water: ice

Unlike the vast majority of substances, ice floats in water liquids. That's because this is no more dense when you're at 0 ° C, but at 4 ° C. If not, there would be no icebergs or resale pipes to get frost. In addition, rivers and lakes begin to freeze the fund to the surface-and we could not skate on them.

It is not the only peculiarity of ice. In fact, there are 14 different varieties, something equally special because solids usually show two or three different types of crystalline structures.

The fact that we all know has a hexagonal structure and is called Ice Ih, but playing with the pressure and temperature can generate other structures.
In nature we also find ice or cubic lc, which is formed from water vapor at normal atmospheric pressure, but at temperatures below 80 ° C below zero. This kind of ice may form in the upper atmosphere.

In 1900, physicist Gus-tav Tammann discovered that the ice if subjected to 3,500 atmospheres-three and a half times the pressure that exists at the bottom of the Mariana Trench-appeared two new states: ice II and III.
A decade later, Percy Bridgman, from Harvard University, identified 5 more varieties. Among them, ice VI was known as "hot ice" since remained without melted to 80 C, provided that they exercise over the 6,500 atmospheres.

Of these, the most ghostly is the ice IV, whose structure was not discovered until 1981, 44 years after being detected, because it becomes very quickly into a more stable, V. And the race continues in 2006, Science magazine reported obtaining ice XIV.

In the solitude of the only space we have found that ice is amorphous. How do you get it? Well, ice cream artisans hold the key: cool very quickly to prevent crystals from forming.

Matter sound of the universe

For all of this is not difficult to conclude that the universe is filled with water. But where it came from? It all began millions of years ago, when the first stars and heavier, with masses of tens of suns, ended his days with an impressive blast.
This supernova explosion expelled into space atoms of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, silicon, iron ... he had ido cooking inside it. Thus enriched the interstellar medium, until then composed solely of hydrogen and helium from the Big Bang.

After a while, and thanks to the laws of chemistry, oxygen and carbon eventually joining to give birth carbon monoxide. A small amount of oxygen-roughly 0.5% - eventually forming water vapor, the molecule that Triatoma more abundant in the universe. As the temperature was dropping, metal oxides and silicates formed condenses into solid grains ultramicroscópicos that water vapor coating forming a crust of ice.

For the first time in the history of the cosmos appeared solid matter.

But in addition to abundant water is a substance absolutely unique, extraordinary properties of its product structure, consisting of two atoms of hydrogen and one oxygen prepared at an angle of almost 105 degrees, with oxygen in the center.

Planetary cores aquatic

Uranus and Neptune also bring their extravagant droplet. We do not know their internal structure, but it is now generally accepted that have three layers: an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, a cloak-possibly liquid water, ammonia and methane, and a nucleus with the same composition to which we must add a set rocky. Other scientists are advocating a model of two layers: an extremely dense atmosphere with a 50% water and a rocky core.

We are facing one of the great mysteries of planetology and assumptions soar. Some scenarios suggest even the existence of an ocean superheated located 8,000 km deep.

For its part, the interior of Titan may be composed in part by ice at different pressures and a layer of liquid water. Yet, in our neighbourhood space, the neighbor who takes the palm is certainly Mars.

Million years ago, the arid and dry Red Planet was a very different place we know today. Not only was warmer and more dense atmosphere, but the water ran by its surface. For the Ares Vallis was circulated friolera of 1,000 million cubic meters per second, an amount that leaves nothing in the 300,000 Amazon or the impressive 60 million from the large waterfall that was formed at the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar and that it filled Today is the Mediterranean after this was dry 5.5 million years ago.

Planetology Some even believe that Mars was a big ocean. With 65 million cubic meters and 1,700 meters deep media, the assumption Oceanus Borealis could cover the plains of the northern third of the planet and coexist with a huge South Pole.

Evidence of water vapor in the Sun

In our Solar System found evidence of the existence of water in the most extraordinary conditions.

For example, in the Sun, which appears in a state of steam in sunspots, and also on our beloved and dry Moon. In 1994, the radar detected the probe Clementine deposits of ice at the bottom of several deep craters where there is permanent darkness. It is estimated that these comprise between 10,000 and 50,000 square kilometers in the north pole and up to 20,000 at the south pole.

The ice also extends through Europe, one of the Jovian satellites. With a surface temperature of -170 ° C-the lowest achieved on Earth has been -89 ° C, this body presents a completely frozen. But under its icy shell of between 10 and 100 miles thick covers a vast sea of salty water.

6/15/2008

How to repair a water leak?

To do this, you require:
wrench
sandpaper
pliers
plastic adhesive tape
epoxy putty.

Then, once located the escape, before closing the counter, you should mark the point escape with a pencil or with the blade of a knife.

Once closed the water meter, is scraping the pipe to make the surface very clean. We strongly wound with plastic adhesive tape.

The adjustment is reinforced by a pair of metal washers or screw.

12/04/2007

Not to heat alone water in an oven microwaves

WE REPRODUCE THE TESTIMONY OF A PERSON THAT SUFFERED SERIOUS BURNS WHEN TRYING TO MAKE BOIL A BOWL OF IT DILUTES

"TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT AT HOME... I RETRANSMIT THEM A TESTIMONY: This is an I articulate that he/she speaks of the hazards of heating water in the oven of microwaves:

5 days ago my son of 26 anuses decided to take a cup of instant coffee. He/she took a cup of water and it put it to heat in the oven of microwaves (something that had already made before in different occasions). Not I know time exactly whereas it programmed it, but he/she told me that he/she wanted that the water boiled.

When the time finished, the oven faded and it took out the cup of the oven. While he/she looked at the cup, he/she realized that the water was not boiling; however, the water emerged directly to its face.

He unties her of their hands after the water has jumped to its face, due to the cumulative energy. All its face has wounds of 1º and 2º grade and it is very probable that the face is marked him/her, besides lost book credit the view partially of the left eye. While we were in the hospital the physician that attended it he/she commented that this type of accidents was very frequent and that he/she should never put on sólamente it dilutes to heat in the microwaves.

If he/she warms water this way he/she should always put on something in the water, a wooden stick or a bag of tea, but if he/she will warm sólamente the water it is better to use a heater of special water for these cases.

This is what the physics teacher said in this respect: "Thank you to send me the message noticing me about the water in the microwaves.
I have known about several cases: This phenomenon is caused by a well-known phenomenon as "super heating."

It can happen in any moment that the water is heated and especially if the tool that you this using is new. What happens is that the water warms a lot but quick of that that the bubbles you begins to form. If the cup is new he/she doesn't have any raspón or slot for where the bubbles can leave forming and they can begin to bubble the water that already this boiling, in such a way that the water goes warming on the time passing of boiling. (so to speak it boils... and it boils... and it boils... CDLR).

What happens then is that the water chokes, it is stagnant and to the contact with the air the water emerges with force for the contained energy.
It is what happens to all the charred drinks. When he/she becomes agitated the bottle being closed to the moment to open it the water it emerges for to the contained energy.

Please send this message to all their friends, they could avoid them a great pain and suffering."

11/29/2007

New Method to Obtain Water starting from Hydrogen and Oxygen

In a well-known chemistry demonstration in the secondary education, a professor uses the electricity first to separate the liquid water in his component gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, combining the two gases and lighting them with a spark, the instructor transforms the gases into water with a very audible noise.

Some scientists in the University of Illinois have discovered a new form of obtaining water, and without necessity of the explosion. They cannot only obtain the water starting from unlikely initial materials, as the alcohols, but rather their work can also take to produce better catalysts, and less expensive cells of fuel.

Zachariah Heiden and Thomas Rauchfuss has discovered that hidruros of non conventional metals can be used for a chemical process that is essential part of the process of formation of the water.

The professor of chemical Thomas Rauchfuss,
to the left, and the student
graduated Zachariah Heiden

A molecule of water is composed by two atoms of hydrogen and an oxygen atom. But it cannot simply take two atoms of hydrogen and to hit them with an oxygen atom. The real reaction of formation of the water is a little more complicated. To produce two molecules of water (H2O), two molecules of hydrogen diatómico (H2) they should combine with a molecule of oxygen diatómico (O2); and energy will be liberated in the process.

This reaction (2H2 + O2 = 2H2O + Energy) it is known for two centuries, but up to now nobody has made it work in a homogeneous solution.

This very well-known reaction also describes what happens inside a cell of fuel of hydrogen.

In a typical cell of fuel, the gas hydrogen diatómico enters for an end of the cell, and the gas oxygen diatómico enters for the other end. The molecules of hydrogen lose their electrons and they are loaded positively through a process denominated oxidation, while the oxygen molecules win four electrons and they are loaded negatively through a process denominated reduction. The loaded oxygen ions negatively combine positively with the loaded ions of hydrogen, to obtain water and to liberate electric power.

The side difficult of the cell of fuel it is the reaction of reduction of the oxygen, not the reaction of oxidation of the hydrogen. "However, we have checked that the new catalysts for the reduction of the oxygen can also take to new chemical means for the oxidation of the hydrogen", Rauchfuss explains.

Rauchfuss and Heiden have investigated a relatively new generation of catalysts for their use in the reduction of the oxygen. The investigators have concentrated especially on certain catalysts based on the iridium. They found that the complex effects of the iridium produce the oxidation of the alcohols so much, as the reduction of the oxygen.

"Most of the compounds react with the hydrogen or with the oxygen, but this catalyst reacts with both", Heiden underlines.

The new catalysts could lead to the future development of more efficient cells of fuel of hydrogen, diminishing their cost substantially.