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How to Make an Edible Plant Cell Model Using Rice Krispies
A plant cell consists of seven components to include cytoplasm, cell wall, cell membrane, nucleus, mitochondria, vacuole and chloroplast. Each of these components can be made out of edible material, such as Rice Krispies for science projects. Construction of the cell model can be done in a small amo
How to Sew Leather Clothing
You can sew leather clothing on a standard sewing machine if you use the correct needles and work with the right leather. For home sewing, choose leather that's 1/8-inch thick or less. Thin leather will glide through your machine with little effort and is less likely to break sewing needles. Take y
How to Graph Numbers on a Polar Grid
Scientific method is the systematic testing of a hypothesis so that one can draw valid conclusions. An essential part of the scientific method is the collection of data to determine relationships between variables. Typically, the data is written into tabulated tables, but this representation makes i
How to Open a Waltham Pocket Watch
Waltham pocket watches are popular with antique collectors and retailers who specialize in watches. Occasionally, old watches require repair; a Waltham pocket watch may seem difficult to open for mechanical access upon first glance, but knowing the appropriate steps simplifies the job.
Information on Mammoth Ivory
Mammoth ivory comes from the tusks of the woolly mammoth, which appeared in Siberia about 400,000 years ago and died out about 3,600 years ago. The remains of an estimated 150,000 mammoths, including tusks, still lie buried in Siberia.
Do it Yourself: Custom Airbrush Baseball Helmets
Baseball helmets are great for providing safety, but they often are plain in color. Airbrushing baseball helmets adds an exciting element that distinguishes one baseball team from another, and even one player from another.
Cutting Textured Glass Technique
Textured glass can add depth and beauty to stained glass and fused glass creations, but it can be tricky to cut. All glass--including textured glass--is cut by fracturing. Glass artists use a glass cutter to create a score line that weakens the glass. When pressure is applied to the score line, the
How to Get to Different Countries on Supreme Ruler
Ruling an empire is a stressful and deep experience in the strategy series "Supreme Ruler" for the PC. In both games, "Supreme Ruler 2010" and "Supreme Ruler 2020," the rulers must manage diplomatic negations in addition to an entire world's economy. Occasionally though, diplomatic relations will de
How to Use a Dichotomous Key of Turtles
A dichotomous key asks a series of questions based on observations to guide a user to a correct identification of an article. Each answer creates a "branch" on the tree. The key will ask many questions and can be quite large in size. At the end of the branch is the identified object. Using a dichoto
Mushroom Coral Facts
Mushroom coral are colorful, hardy creatures that grow on sandy tropical seafloors. They are popular for aquariums because most species can thrive with relatively scant maintenance.
How to Make a Wooden Butter Mold
Wooden butter molds have been used for centuries to form butter into practical and decorative shapes. Traditional molds generally held eight ounces, one pound or two pounds of butter. You can make your own wooden butter mold in about an hour with a few simple materials.
How to Carve Onlays
Onlays are wooden carvings that go onto woodworking projects to add detail. Many furniture projects and fireplace mantels feature carved onlays. One benefit of carving an onlay is that you can avoid the risk of damaging a large piece within a woodworking project with a carving mistake. A small thin
Fun Things You Can Make Out Of An Old Cellphone
You can still use an old cell phone, just not to call or text.my cell phone image by rafalwit from Fotolia.comMost people have an old cell phone lying around the house. Sometimes this is because the phone is simply out of service, or because it is broken and does not work anymore....
Differences in Converting Measures
Many countries of the world have transferred from imperial measurements, such as feet and inches, to metric measurements, such as meters and centimeters. This change alone makes it worth learning how to convert measures, but even within systems, it can be worthwhile learning how to convert measureme
Heliconia Growth
The name Heliconia is derived from Mt. Helikon, home of the nine muses and also from the Latin word "musa." Musa is the botanical name for banana and the foliage of Heliconia plants looks somewhat like the foliage of banana plants. There are three groups of Heliconias and plants fall into
How to Convert an RCP Project to RAP
If you build applications with Eclipse, you have two options, the rich client pPlatform (RCP) and rich Ajax platform (RAP). Their structures are similar, but RCP is generally used for desktop applications, while RAP is a Java format suited to more-streamlined Web applications. For this reason, conve
How to Use a 9-Volt Battery to Power LEDs
You can use light emitting diodes (LED) in many applications to provide status lights and illumination. LEDs are true diodes, meaning that they will only conduct electricity in one direction. LEDs emit light at a single frequency (color), which you cannot modify. The brightness of an LED is directly
How to Sand Unpainted Oak Furniture
Unfinished furniture is an economical way to furnish a home and allows a decorator the freedom to choose from a wide array of stains and paint colors. The furniture is available in both hardwood and softwood varieties--most commonly pine and red or sometimes white oak. Besides being harder than pine
Information About Tropical Rainforest Trees
More than any other land environment on Earth, tropical rainforest ecosystems are so dependent upon the trees in the region that most organisms simply cease to exist without them. The kind of diversity and dependency inherent to rainforests can only be rivaled by coral reefs in the oceans. This make