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Quantum Biology
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Brief nanotechnology article on the merging of quantum physicics and molecular biology. Includes journal citations and relevant Web links.
Agriculture > Crops > Bamboo > Science
Jan 6, 2008
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Bamboo is a diverse group of plants with over 1,200 species ranging in size from miniatures to towering giants of over 150 feet. Bamboo is cosmopolitan in origin and is among the most ancient plants in the grass family (Poaceae). Most bamboo is not native to the tropics.
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It absorbs water faster than most plants and is used in some parts of the world for cleaning sewage. Even more important, it soaks up heavy metals. It is a potential answer to polluted waters.
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Consequently, many extraordinary and vulnerable species such as lemurs, giant pandas and mountain gorillas that depend almost entirely on bamboo for food and shelter face an even-greater struggle for survival.
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A Beijing-based group, the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), hopes to develop modular bamboo housing as part of its efforts to encourage greater use of the renewable plant resource.
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The species in the genus Phyllostachys that are naturalized in Arkansas are large, evergreen, rhizometous and colonial, arborescent grasses. They can range in height from 3 to about 23 meters tall (the latter in the case of P. bambusoides).
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On line resource for practical guidance and criteria for earthquake resistant design ,detailing and construction of low rise residential buildings (defined as up to two storey structures plus attic) with primary lateral load resisting system consisting of masonry bearing walls or Infilled RC
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The bamboo ceiling fits the highest European fire protection standard-M1 and consists of 5 layers of bamboo veneer.
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The SBNet, hosted by Uppsala University, unites academic and industrial structural biologists. Its goal is to strengthen the strategic value of structural biology in Sweden.
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HUATUSCO, Mexico - It can be used to build homes, make deodorant, clothes and paper. Some industries fuel ovens with it. The Aztecs made flutes out of it. China may be the first place that springs to mind when we think of bamboo, but it has long grown wild in Mexico.
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Bamboo is one of the fastest growing, most versatile, 'woody' plants with highest productivity in the world, and is annually renewable and harvestable if managed appropriately.
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