Walter learned in science class that different substances release heat at different rates. He decides to test this.

At home, Walter turns the oven to 200°F. He places three casserole dishes in it: one is made of metal, one is made of glass, and one is made of ceramic. He leaves them in the oven for an hour. He then removes them from the oven, places a single ice cube on each one, and times how long it takes the ice cube to melt.

In this experiment, what is the test variable (independent variable)?
A.
the material each pan is made of
B.
the volume of each ice cube
C.
the temperature of each pan
D.
the amount of time it takes for the ice to melt

oxygen, selenium, tellurium, and polonium.

they're all from the same group as sulfur (group 16).

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most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).