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Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...working in the USA and Britain. These first condensation products of the controlled reactions between phenol and formaldehyde produced hard but relatively weak and brittle materials. Swinburne commercialised his resin as a range of varnishes but Baekeland mixed the resin with significant amounts of woodflour to produce the first polymer composite – Bakelite . It was the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...work? The greater part of the Earth’s atmosphere is in the lower atmosphere, and when dry it is made up almost entirely of three gases: nitrogen, with 78% (78 parts out of 100) by volume; oxygen (21%); and an inert gas, argon, making up most of the remainder. These three gases do not interact significantly with heat (i.e. infra-red) radiation from the Sun or the Earth....
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...work in the Firefox and Chrome browsers, so you will need to use one of these browsers if you want to access the interactive content. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T212 Electronics: sensing, logic and actuation...An introduction to electronics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise a...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...works, was the variety which evolved into the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and other languages. Whether two different linguistic varieties are deemed to be the same language or not is not wholly a linguistic issue, but relies upon political and cultural factors as well. Latin vocabulary survives in these languages, although sometimes...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...work out what the power should be, you simply count how many times you moved the decimal point. The composition of the gut microbiome changes throughout our lives. During the first 3 years of life our gut microbiome is formed and affected by various factors, such as breastfeeding, weaning and bacteria found in the local environment. As we age, two groups of bacterial...
Як написати резюме
Education & Development

Як написати резюме

...V - це не історія всього вашого життя, а лише ті частини життевого досвіду, які мають відношення до цього роботодавця. Learn new skills to help you with finding work...
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...work out a representative value for the temperature for each month, an average is used to give an idea of a ‘typical’ or expected value. There are different ways of expressing an average value but the most common is the mean (which is often referred to as the average, as done here). The average (or mean) is obtained by adding up all the values of a set of data and...
Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...Work out the missing letters, from the following options:-o, -a, -os, -as, -es. Complete las frases. (a) La Catedral de Burgos es un edificio antigu___. (b) El puente de Calatrava es una construcción modern___. (c) La Sagrada Familia es una iglesia inacabad___. (d) Las fiestas de Valencia son espectacular___. (e) Los jardines del Turia son precios___. (f) El Museo de las...