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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 What is life like for people who reside around sandstone mines? This segment also highlights some of the available careers in the sandmining industry.
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 How does silica mining affect wildlife and the surrounding habitats where they live?
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 How can technology and engineering reduce environmental impacts? How does silica mining affect water, and land?
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 Part 3 answers the questions: Why would fracing engineers want pure silica sand? Rounded grains? Uniform grain size? No other minerals? One risk factor of silica mining is...
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 Silica is valuable and important since it is used for many everyday things. But why is it mined in specific areas, like Tunnel City, Wisconsin?
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 Emma and Jacob visit an industrial sand mine, to decode the science and to investigate the environmental impacts of sand mines. Industrial sand mines search for silica, the second...
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 Biofuels are one of the solutions science can offer for combatting carbon emissions and environmental damage.
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 The increase of carbon emissions into our atmosphere is one of the root causes of climate change, and the acidification of earth’s oceans. How does ethanol affect the environment...
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 This segment explores an alternate way fuel is created: by using corn!
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EXPIRES: 6/2/2023 What are the physics in fractional distillation? What’s the molecular difference between gas and gasoline? What’s the chemistry role of a catalyst?