Which wood burns the fastest? In my research I found that because of the lower density of soft woods they burn more quickly than hard woods. When looking for a fast burning wood, I found most sources recommend using soft wood. I also found that the more resin (also referred to as sap) types of wood contain affects how it burns. The combination of high resin content and low density means easy ignition and a lesser burn time.
One of the biggest disadvantages is not being able to make connections as easy as the copper. Fiber optic cables have a core as fine as a human hair, making it extremely difficult to splice. Copper cables are obviously not going to be around forever with the fiber optics being so futuristic, but they still have advantages over the fiber. Copper is very easy to work with. When making connections it is so much easier to splice the copper cable than it would be for the fiber.
The oldest printed paper currently known to man was one-hundred percent hemp and was used in 8th century China. As I mentioned earlier, hemp was also used to draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States as well. Both of these documents are still preserved today as a testament to the strength and durability of hemp paper. This type of paper is also much more economical as hemp can produce four times as much paper per acre as wood. The process to create the paper does not involve releasing harmful toxins like tree paper processing does.
The major problems with cotton are that the plantations require a lot of herbicides and pesticides, they use a lot fertilizer and they use up massive quantities of water. Hemp however makes a stronger material than cotton that can be grown in several different climates, requires no herbicides or pesticides, needs no fertilizers and would consume a lot less water. Because hemp is more durable then cotton I would throw away less cloths and I would reduce my methane as well as my nitrogen emissions. The growing, harvesting and production of hemp textiles create significantly less greenhouse gases then the cotton industry and would be a fast and easy alternative to
Leaves: N-143 V-150 Long Leaf: N-139 V-148 Num. Fruits : N 138 V-145 3) A large number of replicate is extreamly important because you have a more percise count of plants and if some die it doesn’t affect the whole
* Cellulose as a source of chemicals – starch, another polymer of glucose, can be used as an alternative source for petrochemical products but there is more cellulose produced in plants than starch. Each glucose unit of cellulose has 6 carbons atoms joined together, a good starting point in making petrochemicals e.g. ethylene (2 C atoms). However, it is more difficult to break cellulose into glucose than starch due to the many hydrogen bonds in the long near-linear chains of cellulose forming compact fibres. There are two processes to break cellulose into
Fiber, also known as roughage, contains many properties that aid our digestion tract, and allow us to process waste products more efficiently. According to Nutrition.gov (2013) fiber can be found in many of our favorite foods including whole grains, vegetables, and fruits. There are two types of fiber, soluble and insoluble. Soluble fibers dissolve in water, and when digested, “form viscous solutions in the intestines” (Grosvenor & Smolin, 2006). “Fibers that cannot be digested by bacteria in the large intestines are called insoluble fibers because they do not dissolve in water.” (Grosvenor & Smolin, 2006) High fiber diets can produce many benefits, including higher nutrient absorption levels, and better waste output.
Hemp fiber could be used to make a large variety of papers, which would help decrease the paper industries dependency on wood. Hemp based building materials have proven to be a direct, and even sturdier replacement for wood in construction. With hemp’s many different uses, the saying should go “Hemp is
Isolation of Trimyristin from Nutmeg and Its Hydrolysis to Myristic Acid Compounds having complex molecular structures can be separated from natural materials. Usually they are components of very complex mixtures. To obtain pure compounds, long, tedious separation and purification procedures are often required. The triester, trimyristin, is however an exception and can be extracted from ground nutmeg seeds with tert-butyl methyl ether. Crystallization from acetone yields the pure compound.
Everyone most likely has some form of cotton clothes, or cotton fabric used as a product, but you may not know why a person should use hemp instead of cotton? Brain Palmer writes an article “High on Environmentalism.” This article explains why hemp should be legal as to how it applies to be eco friendly and why it should legally be grown in the United States. Palmer writes, “While cotton requires less energy to grow and process than its competitors, it uses a lot of land. The "fabric of our lives" needs approximately twice as much territory as hemp per ton of finished textile, the land-use miser of the bunch.” Even though it doesn’t take as much energy to grow cotton it uses more land then hemp would if a person were to grow hemp instead of cotton. Palmer goes on to writes “The cotton plant needs about 50 percent more water per season than hemp, which can grow with little irrigation…cotton uses more than four times as much water as hemp” (Palmer).