Useful tips how to open frozen car door lock provided buy online car parts shop onlinecarparts.co.uk. To open a frozen door lock you can use brake fluid. But remember that its components absorb moisture and are aggressive to the paint coating. So, after using the brake fluid you can not only get back the frozen locks, but also the faded paint.
Another option is using alcohol. It can quickly cope with the ice, but will remain the smell. Actually, not every driver will waste the drink on the purposes like that.
Posted on February 21st, 2012 by admin
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The oldest tree that is now growing is Ginkgo. It grows in the Chinese province of Zhejiang Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo biloba). This kind of tree originated in the Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago. The first who saw it in Japan around 1690 was a European Engelbert Kampfer from Germany.
He described the new tree that according to him has been growing from the XII century. In Japan, Ginkgo is called “silver apricot” or Yizhou.
This tree reaches a height of 30 m with the diameter of the trunk up to 2.4 m. The only modern species of the family Ginkgo (Ginkgoaceae) and the eponymous department (Ginkgophyta) are gymnosperms. Ginkgo biloba and similar forms grew in the past in the upper Triassic period, with the peak in its development in the Jurassic period. 17 various minerals have been described of the ginkgo kind.
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by admin
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Spurge (Euphorbia obesa)
Desert species Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae) in appearance can hardly be distinguished from the cacti. Most of them come from South Africa.
Description: The abundance of botanical species does not allow us to describe each separately. To care for these plants will be sufficient to distinguish two large groups. The first is with thick stems, in the form of columns, slightly branched, the other is thin and with a lot of shoots. There is even a ball-like “hat of the bishop” (Euphorbia obesa) and warty E. mammillaris.
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by admin
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Nile originates in the Great Lakes of Africa and makes its way through thousands of miles of deserts and swamps. It then meanders slowly, but then again accelerates its pace to the rapids.
Nile is the longest river in the world. It stretches for more than 6700 km from its source. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said “Nile is a gift of Egypt”, because in this valley lives 95% of the population. Here is focused all of agriculture – the river not only provides moisture but also fertile soil.
Valley of the great river stretches for 1500 kilometers from the south of the border with Sudan, north to the Mediterranean coast. It separates the Arabian desert from the Libyan. Width of the “stretch of life” along the Nile is between one kilometer to the south to 20-25 km in the area of Cairo.
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by admin
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Family: Legumes
Origin: Tropical Asia.
Evergreen, shrub or multi herb up to 1.2 m tall. Leaves are ternate, elliptic-oblong. The upper leaves are several times larger than the lateral leaves, drooping on short stalks. The stipules are oblong and pointed. Flowers are small, brownish-yellow. Under strong light, lateral leaflets perform rotational motion in the form of a semicircle, push and bend downward, describing the full ellipse of its top in 30 seconds. The mechanism of movement is due to a change in turgor in the cells of the thickened leaflets with petioles of joints axis of the sheet. Gardeners especially love the Desmodium precisely because of this feature, I mean the rotational movements. It is now grown as a houseplant on bright windowsills or in heated greenhouses.
Posted on September 10th, 2011 by admin
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Rafflezy, cadaveric lily, genus of plants of the family rafflezy. It is found on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan. There are 12 species of rafflezy. Among the most famous is Rafflezy Arnoldi and Rafflezy tuan muda, with the largest flowers in the plant kingdom (diameter from 60 cm to 1 m with a weight of up to 11 kg). And even the smallest flowers of rafflezy can be very impressive with 15-20 cm in diameter. This flower was named in honor TS Raffles and naturalist D. Arnold, who found and described in the southwestern part of Sumatra this plant and said that it is “the greatest miracle” of the plant world.
Posted on September 7th, 2011 by admin
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The Amazon is inhabited by the largest, reaching a diameter of two meters, water lily in the world – a giant Amazonian Victoria. They are able to withstand the weight of several tens of kilograms.
Guinness World Records listed it as “the largest flowering plant on Earth.”
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by admin
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In the Indian Ocean, 420 kilometers northeast of Madagascar and 1100 kilometers southwest of the Seychelles, is the second largest atoll in the world – Aldabra. Its solid size (35 km in length, 14.5 km in width), good location in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the distance from the famous commercial maritime routes allowed to develop here, and most importantly survive, the unique plant and animal communities.
Aldabra is surrounded by a coral reef. The passages in the reef atoll are divided into four major islands, the total floor area of 155.4 square kilometers. It would seem such a trifle! But how much nature has managed to build excellence in these miserable one and a half hundreds of kilometers of land lost in the ocean! It did not reach civilization – it has saved a unique natural world of the atoll Aldabra.
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by admin
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Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a kind of carnivorous plant from monotypic genus of the family Droseraceae. The scientific species name is “muscipula” translates from Latin as “the mousetrap” which is probably due to an error in botanics, at least as commonly believed. This is a kind, cultivated in ornamental horticulture. It can be grown as a houseplant.
This is a small herbaceous plant with a rosette of 4-7 leaves, which grow from a short underground stem.
The stem is made of bulbous rhizomes. Leaves range in size from three to seven inches, depending on the season, long leaves are traps that are usually formed after flowering. It grows in soils with nitrogen deficiency, such as swamps. Lack of nitrogen is the cause of trapping insects as a source of nitrogen needed for protein synthesis.
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by admin
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The ability to instantly fold its leaves, not only for the night, but even mechanically stimulated, and then slowly return to its previous state is just amazing.
On earth there are about 500 species of mimosa, most of which are common in tropical America and is represented by grasses, shrubs and trees. The genus name comes from the Greek word mimos – “Mime,” “actor” and reflects the ability of plants to “play”. But only a few species exhibit their characteristic reactions to the touch, among them – loved by all the bashful mimosa. In indoor environment it is grown as an annual plant, but at home – it has branched thorns. The leaves of mimosa are composed of numerous oblong-oval leaves. Pinkish-purple tubular flowers gather in the mimosa capitate inflorescences.
Posted on August 26th, 2011 by admin
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