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The Use of Indicators for Determining the Relative Strength of Acids: A Class Demonstration Technique
This method, stated in a few words, c onsists in the comparison of the color given by the unknown acid containing a definite amount of indicator with the color given by the same amount of indicator in an equal volume of ... -
The Washington and Lee University Price Index
Past expenditure patterns for Washington and Lee (fiscal years 1978-1981) are described through the use of price indexes. The expenditures included are a representative sample of total spending at Washington and Lee. The ... -
Thesis in Chemistry [Double Cesium and Rubidium Salts of Lead Tetrabromide]
Salts in which lead is quadrivalent are comparatively unstable and usually they readily pass over into the corresponding compounds in which the lead is divalent. Salts of Hexa-chloroplumbic acid 2Hcl. Pb cl4 are known and ... -
Thesis on Concrete
The three investigations made are: 1. Effect of surface area on strength of concrete. 2. Consistency test: ie. Variable water ratio. 3. Density test. [From introductory section] -
Thesis on Gypsum
The subject of this thesis is to try to prove that dead burnt gypsum will set if it has a nucleui to set around and for this nucleui to be furnished with a given % of either gypsum or plaster of Paris. To confirm the ... -
A Thesis on the Potash Contained in Leaves
We see then that in 100 pounds of leaves there is .16 pounds of potash. Further, 100 pounds of leaves, thoroughly dry, will constitute a volume of about 21 bushels. Hence in the large volume of 21 bushels of leaves there ... -
Thesis: On Double Sulphates of Copper and Cadmium
The object of this work was to investigate the possibility of a double sulphate of coppper and cadmium, and to obtain such, a solution of each was mixed with the other in different ratios and allowed to evaporate spontaneously, ... -
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"They've all come to look for America": Refugee Resettlement and Employment in the United States
The current system strives to ensure that refugees are economically self-sufficient: that they are able to pay bills when their cash grants run out after the first few months. This goal, which is set by the federal government, ... -
Through Reason to Imagination: The Intellectual Development of C. S. Lewis (1922-1960)
Lewis' literary transformation is, too, complete. The Oxford youth who intended to fashion a philosophic New Look simply because he was "against government" surrendered not only his will but also his reason to the depths ... -
Timber Harvests and the Opportunity Cost of Capital: Evidence from the US Southland (thesis)
The optimal timber rotation problem appears in many introductory environmental economics textbooks and has been a standard illustration of the relation between market rates of return and economic decision-making for decades. ... -
Tiny Home Communities: Alternative Solutions to Addressing Homelessness
Homelessness is decreasing nationally, but populations experiencing homelessness in certain states and unsheltered homelessness both increasing. Also, chronic homelessness still makes up large part of populations experiencing ... -
To Live Gratefully: The Grateful Response to the Gift of Life (thesis)
To evaluate the proper response to receiving the gift of life, we must ask what constitutes proper gratitude. I claim that there are two fundamental parts to gratitude: the mental state and the return. While this return ... -
"To muddy death": The Link Between Sexual Deviancy and Suicide in Hamlet, The Waves, and Looking for Alaska
At first glance, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Virginia Woolf's The Waves do not seem texts ripe for a new, deep examination of their themes. Both stories, penned by two geniuses from two different eras, have been poked and ... -
Tobacco and Jesus: The Social Impacts of Scottish and Scots-Irish Immigrants in Colonial Virginia (thesis)
To closely examine how the Scots and Scots-Irish managed to have such an impact on colonial Virginia, this study draws from primary source documents from or about immigrants during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... -
Totalitarian Trends in Putin's Russia: The Influence of Aleksandr Dugin (thesis)
Analyzing Russia as a totalitarian state is useful because it seems to help explain why Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. By analyzing Russia as a totalitarian state, this paper rejects and aims to disprove attempts to analyze ... -
Toward the Synthesis of Tricyclic Octanes
I began my research as a continuation of the summer research of Miss Julie Kugel of Northwestern University. She worked under a National Science Foundation grant. She had begun work on synthesizing Tricyclo (2.1.l.0 24) ... -
Towards an Automated and Customizable Linear Cryptanalysis of Substitution-Permutation Network Cipher (thesis)
The increasing scale of the Internet of Things exposes the proprietors and users to a number of security threats in terms of invasion of privacy, identity thefts and the like. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the ... -
Tracks, Troops, and Treaties: Russian and Chinese Competition and Cooperation in Kazakhstan (thesis)
The overlapping Chinese and Russian interests in Kazakhstan lead many to believe it will be a point of contention for Beijing and Moscow. However, Kazakhstan's unique situation proves it to be fertile ground for Russia and ...