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**Polymers in the Field.**
I knew that turf is used for football fields and track since many schools are replacing old fields with graded rubber. I didn't know that they poured a layer of an 100% acrylic emulsion which adds pigments and fibers that are added for cushioning because most courts are made of grass, clay, or a hard court that I know of.

**Is the Hydrogen car of the future running on empty?** article.
I read the article on the new cars that run on hydrogen rather than gas fuel. It talked about the process on how the fuel is circulated throughout the car. There are nine pounds of hydrogen gas stored in a 5,000 lb. per-square-inch tank that flows into a" fuel-cell stack" that's located between the seats. This is where the gas molecules are ionized by catalysts, which gets rid of the electrons. The positive ions pass through a thin polymer membrane and the electrons flow to a 134-horsepower electric-drive motor. The electrons then combine once again with the positive hydrogen ions and also with the oxygen atoms from the air to form water. What comes out of the tailpipe then is simply just water vapor. I thought this article related to chapters we've studied in the past; and I think this is the kind of car that everyone should begin using at some point. I personally think if the price of these cars were a little lower more and more people would be buying these cars because of good fuel efficiency and it doesn't pollute our air.

Einsteins Miraculous year
I found this article to be very interesting just because we've all heard about Albert Einstein before and how he's known and famous for his incredible inventions, but I didn't know as much as I found out in the article. For example how he had gone into further studies about the space-time continuum, which led to his theory of relativity. At the same time I think that his clock theory could be a very controversial issue. I thought it was interesting how the effect of intensity is that the more intense the light, the more photons are being transferred to the metal, which means the electrons leave faster. I think there are a lot of questions to still be answered.

=The many looks of the Periodic Table= Something I found interesting about this article was the Periodic Spiral made by Jeff Moran. It's represented by hexagon shapes and starts in the middle with hydrogen and circles clockwise from the inside out. Other than the first two elements, hydrogen and helium, and the f block, a full loop corresponds to a row in a traditional periodic table. It's said that there are three flaws with the traditional periodic table that the Periodic Spiral fixes. One flaw is how hydrogen has unique properties unlike the other elements so it really doesn't belong to any of the columns in the table. I think this Periodic Spiral would be a little harder to follow and read compared to the traditional Periodic Table.