General science thread

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Sublimates at that temp at standard pressure. Flourine is highly electronegative.

Quote: odiousgambit

6 Flouride molecules for each U molecule

Quote: odiousgambit

atoms, not molecules, to make one molecule, let me beat Geno to that correction

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Pontzer gave some of the Hadza specially treated water to drink that allowed him to monitor their daily metabolic energy use with great accuracy.

The findings were bizarre. Hadza people, when the data was adjusted for their differences in weight, used up a broadly similar amount of energy on a typical day to pretty much all the other populations whose daily energy demands had been studied.

People walking dozens of kilometres a day to track, kill and haul giraffes back to camp apparently burnt a similar amount of energy on a typical day to Americans with cars, well-stocked fridges and office jobs.

Pontzer explained his surprising results through what has become known as the ‘constrained energy expenditure hypothesis.’ The theory suggests that humans, and indeed many other animals, may have a built-in system to keep our overall energy expenditure within a fixed range, no matter how much physical activity we do.

In other words, Pontzer suggests your body generally has a set amount of energy to use each day.

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This retrospective study looked at nearly 14,000 people using Finnish mobile health clinics from the 1970s, aged between 30 and 69 at the time of treatment. It found that men and women who had said they used sauna nine to 12 times per month had less than half the rate of Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses over 20 years versus those who used a sauna less than four times a month or not at all, and a 20 per cent reduction over 39 years. It suggests that frequent sauna use may at least delay dementia, if not prevent it outright.