Are Apple Cores Poisonous? | Science Questions - The Naked …
2010年9月26日 · Apple seeds contain about 700 milligrams of cyanide per kilo, so about 100 grams of apple seeds should be enough to dispatch a 70-kg adult human, but that's an awful lot of apple cores even if you don't eat the rest of the apple first. In addition, the seeds would have to be pretty finely crushed to let the enzymes get to the amygdalin at all.
Why was cyanide a common poison? | Science Questions - The …
2020年2月4日 · Chris - I think we calculated you'd have to eat something like your own body weight in apple pips, in apples rather, to get enough amygdalin, which is the cyanide source in apple pips, in order to actually compromise yourself. So you'd probably die of poisoning from over-eating apples before you actually died of cyanide poisoning, I think was ...
How safe is the wax on apples? | Science Questions
2010年2月7日 · So the apple packers re-apply a commercial grade wax, and one pound of that wax can cover as many as 160,000 pieces of fruit. So in other words, two drops of it on each apple. The waxes have been used on fruits since the 1920s. they're all made from natural ingredients certified by the US Food and Drug Administration as safe to eat and they ...
Where is gravity the strongest? | Science Questions - The Naked …
2011年3月27日 · So, in terms of the downward force that you feel, it's the same all over in the surface of the Earth. Diana - Certain rocks give certain areas of the earth's stronger gravitational pull and the bulge at the earth's equator counteracts the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation, sounds simple. On Facebook, Steven Duncan said that you should ...
Q&A: Soy, Slingshots and Cyanide | Podcasts | Naked Scientists
2020年2月4日 · So apple pips, for example, will contain it and apricot pips, but you do need to have a ridiculous amount before it's going to do you any harm. Chris - I think we calculated you'd have to eat something like your own body weight in apple pips, in apples rather, to get enough amygdalin, which is the cyanide source in apple pips, in order to ...
What is the God Particle and Why Should I Care?
2012年1月10日 · An apple falls to Earth because gravity, a force centrally directed toward the Earth’s core, acts on mass, and on mass alone. We all owe a great debt to mass. In hydroelectric power plants, gravity acts on the mass of water spilling over the dam and pulls it downward, turning the turbines.
What is the treatment for molluscum contagiosum?
2008年5月29日 · Drinking apple cider vinegar 1-2T+ 3x per day. ACV cleanses the liver. It has been used for centuries to kill genital warts. It will dry them up. Rinse your teeth with water after drinking. For kids: Mix it in apple juice & drink through a …
Why a feather and an apple fall down at the same rate inside …
2015年1月10日 · Newton's Law of Motion: F = dp/dt = ma = mass x acceleration of apple/feather. Equating these two expressions we obtain. GMm/r 2 = ma. The m cancels out to give. a = GM/r 2. This says that the acceleration of the object, be it an apple or a feather, is independent of the mass of the object. Logged.
Down to Earth: Space plasma drills | Interviews - The Naked …
2018年2月6日 · ESA has funded a Norwegian company to study a new drilling technique called plasma channel drilling which they hope will allow more efficient and deeper drilling on Mars. Plasma channel drilling was first developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. It works by placing two metal plates on the surface of a piece of rock ...
Is sugar in fruit healthier than in doughnuts? | Questions | Naked ...
2019年3月12日 · Although that will appear to suggest doughnuts might be healthier than fruit, the truth is very different because whilst a doughnut might have slightly healthier sugar it does have vastly more of it. A normal sized apple has about 19 g of sugar, a doughnut has 48, but also the doughnut contains piles of fat so one normal sized apped maybe has ...