4.5.4 Quiz: Experimental Design
On March 23, 1989, the chemists Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and
Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton announced to the world
that they had achieved cold fusion. That is, with a solution of salts in a simple
desktop apparatus, they had caused hydrogen atoms to "fuse," or combine
into hellum atoms. This reaction had previously been achieved only in
hydrogen-bomb blasts and in giant research projects lasting many decades
and costing many billions of dollars.
The two chemists claimed that they had been able to measure the energy
released by the fusion process in their simple setup. The scientific world was
in an uproar, because if this were really true, cold fusion would be the greatest
discovery in 1000 years - a practically infinite source of cheap, safe energy.
However, no matter how hard they tried, no other scientists were able to get
the same results. Pons and Fleischmann had dozens of excuses, but none of
them were shown to have merit. Ultimately, both scientists resigned in
disgrace
What primary principle of experimental design did their experiment foil?!
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A. Control
B. Randomization
c. Replication
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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

comfort   in their suffering