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Soft drink by-products could reduce global warming
Professor of Chemistry Craig Teague and his students have discovered that the by-products of soft drinks could help reduce global warming.
A Cornell College team of researchers worked with other experts at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on the idea starting in 2016, and their final conclusions were published in the journal article “Microporous and hollow carbon spheres derived from soft drinks: Promising CO2separation materials” in April of 2019. Their new research shows that the by-products of some soft drinks actually remove carbon dioxide, a gas known to warm the planet, from gas streams.
“In this research, we are looking at turning one waste material into something of value,” Teague said. “We looked at waste soft drinks–asking could we possibly find a way to make that waste useful by doing a simple process in the lab and taking the carbon out? That carbon, by the way we synthesized it, has tiny pores, which are able to capture carbon dioxide.”
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Korean boatmanbyCornell University Library
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early US-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Date: ca. 1904
Description: “Korean sailor takes a break from transporting cargo and people, sitting under the shadow from the sail, smoking from his long bamboo pipe. He wears cool hemp clothes.”
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Details from a painting by Otto Marseus van Schrieck, c. 1670
On display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Otto Marseus van Schrieck invented the sottobosco or ‘forest floor’ genre of painting, which reflected the 17th century Dutch scientific culture with its emphasis on the documentation of the natural world, and encouraged the viewer to look down and consider the domain of plants and mushrooms, insects, slugs, snails, small reptiles, and amphibians.
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Okay…This is going to be a weird request but bear with me.
I’m a HS Senior looking to apply to… Well, I have a huge list of schools. So…
Sell me. Tell me why your school is the best. Tell me what you love about the campus and its people. Convince me why I should consider this school higher than the rest.
Seriously, help me out here. Please and thank you!
