Types of Wood Fasteners

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The screw is a simple wod fastener and one of the most used.New Wood Screw image by Jim Mills from Fotolia.comWorking with wood means getting to know the strengths and weaknesses of this ubiquitous building material. The strength of the wood and the purpose of the wood/fastener...

How to Make a Volcano With Donut Holes

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Making a volcano, whether for a science project or a craft at home, is an entertaining teaching tool. Learn a few principles of chemistry as you erupt your volcano after spending a few hours expanding your artistic abilities. By using doughnut holes for this project, rather than the typical material

Properties of Potassium Nitrate

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Potasium nitrate is the main ingredient for gunpowder.an alarm-gun image by alri from Fotolia.comFor anyone wishing to work with chemicals, it's essential to have a healthy appreciation of chemical properties and the potential outcomes produced by chemical reactions, especially when...

How to Make Yixing Teapots

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Yixing teapots are considered a luxurious and sacred container that hold some of the most delicious teas in the world. They are made out of zisha clay, which is only cultivated in the southern area of the Yixing region in the Jiangsu province near Shanghai. This unglazed clay carries the right prope

How to Make a Footprint Reindeer

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A footprint reindeer will be a permanent Christmas reminder of the days when your child was young. You can make a whole herd of these nonsensical creatures or add a single member to the herd each year as your child grows. All you need are art supplies that you probably already have around the house

DIY Solar Panel Regulators

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A solar panel regulator sits between a solar panel and its battery, regulating the flow of electricity between the two. A vital component within any solar-powered system, a regulator can be made at home. With just a few steps, and the help of a voltage regulator circuit, the solar panel's battery ou

Bulletin Board Ideas for Fundraising Goals

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Bulletin boards are an effective visual aid to convey a message, introduce a topic or announce progress. A bulletin board also is a good way to share fundraising goals and mark progress. Fundraising goal bulletin boards serve as a reminder to participants and provide a way to visually see the progre

How to Change Your Steam Password

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Steam is important to a computer gamer. It is an online gaming platform that gives you safe and legal access to computer games and ways to play and chat online with friends. You want to keep your account secure, of course, and one way to do it is to change the password from time to time. This ensure

How to Read Gantt Chart Variances

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A Gantt chart is used in project management to track tasks start and completion dates, ensuring the project is completed on time. Individual project tasks completed too late delay project completion and impact scheduling of succeeding steps, while tasks completed too early may also cause problems as

How to Mount Styrene Foam Boards

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Polystyrene foam or styrene foam boards are made of plastic foam. They are used to mount photographs, other printed images and screen prints. Styrene foam boards are lightweight and are often lined with a top and bottom layer of a wood fiber resin coating. The coating makes the board rigid, durable

Black Jelly Fungus

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The black jelly fungus is an edible mushroom that is often dried and used in Thai and Chinese cuisine. There are several colors of jelly fungi, which look like rubbery chunks of kelp or seaweed. Black jelly fungus is also called clouds ear or wood ear fungus, and its scientific classification is Aur

Homemade High Definition Antenna

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High-definition television is broadcast in the same way as standard definition television. HDTV is offered as a paid service in most areas. However, it is possible to make your own high-definition antenna and receive free HD television channels.

How to Get to Pig Park to Find Mushmom in "MapleStory"

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In the massively multiplayer online role-playing game "MapleStory," you can find the enemy Mushmom after traveling through a series of portals in Pig Park. Mushmom is sought after by players because it has a chance, upon defeat, to drop an Ilbis, a powerful steel throwing star with an attack rating

How to Convert SEER to IPLV

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Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) and Integrated Part-Load Value (IPLV) are two different ways of measuring air-conditioner efficiency. SEER measures the average cooling efficiency over a specific season while IPLV represents the efficiency in a hypothetical season. The IPLV would be the best-

How to Use an Incubator

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When it comes to hatching eggs, you need to know how to use an incubator so that the eggs you are caring for will hatch successfully and produce some healthy little ones to care for until they are old enough to care for themselves. After you have the incubator, you must follow some easy steps so tha

The Value of an Old U.S. Banknote

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The collector value of any U.S. banknote depends on its condition, type, variety, series date, denomination and production totals, so no single overall answer is possible. The United States government began issuing its own paper money in 1862, and issued many different designs for each denomination

How to Find People in RuneScape

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"RuneScape" is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG. Players create and develop their own characters, as well as further strive to survive and improve their characters. "RuneScape" includes a three-dimensional world with magic and creatures, and it allows players to ad

How to Convert a Tangent to Secant

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If you have a triangle with one right (90 degree) angle, then you can use elementary trigonometric functions to determine relationships between the remaining angles and sides of the triangle. The length of the side opposite one of the non-right angles divided by the length of the adjacent side will

How to Convert AS3 to Java

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Converting AS3 (ActionScript 3, the Flash Programming Language) to Java (an object-oriented class programming language) can be done in two ways. One way is to develop a program that converts AS3 code to Java code. The other way, which works well for small AS3 programs, is to convert the code manuall

How to Get a Map Room on "Backyard Monsters"

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In the Facebook game "Backyard Monsters," you begin with spiky little purple monsters called Pokeys. By collecting resources and conducting research, your monster army can expand to include such critters as the spiderlike Fang and the deadly Ichi. Once you've constructed a map room in your backyard,