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Why Do Touch Me Not Plants Closes When You Touch Them

The touch-me-not plant (Mimosa pudica) closes when touched as a rapid defense mechanism to protect itself from being eaten or damaged.The plant shrinks away using a high-speed chain reaction that behaves like a miniature electrical and hydraulic system:1. The Electrical ShockwaveWhen you touch a leaf, it triggers an immediate electrical signal inside the plant. This signal is very similar to how electrical impulses travel along human nerve cells. It races down the leaf stem at a speed of up to 3 centimeters per second.2. The Water Escape (The Hinge)The signal hits a tiny, swollen hinge at the base of every leaf called a pulvinus.Activating this hinge triggers the immediate release of potassium and chloride ions out of the cells on one side of the hinge.Following the rules of osmosis, water instantly rushes out of those cells to follow the ions.Lacking water, these cells deflate like punctured balloons, causing the hinge…

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How Do We Hear

when someone plays guitar we hear the sound how it starts with sound waves we have three parts in our ear the outer ear called the middle ear and the inner ear so the sound goes to the outer ear called the pinna and then it goes to another part of the ear the ear canal now the next part of the ear the middle ear the sound goes to the middle ear and in that there is a ear drum the sound wave moves the ear drum and there are three small bones called the ossicle and the ear drum moves the bones it starts with the hammer bone the anvil bone and the stapes bone the stapes bone move the cochlea a small circular tube filled with liquid situated and there are lots of tiny hairs and the liquid moves the hairs and the the cochlea sends th…

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So when you run 3 laps in a circle and stop you take a heavy breath right why does that happen? because you need oxygen. so when you breathe in, the oxygen goes to your nose, and in your nose there are small hair so when you breath in the dust also goes in so the small hair takes the dust and some dust does not get caught by the hair and it goes to the wind pipe also called trachea and it splits into 2 parts called bronchi the bronchi sends the oxygen into the lungs and near the lungs there are small sticky hairs and that takes the germs. and the right lung has three lobes as the left lung has two lobes and the left lung is little smaller than the another because the heart is there and in the lobes there are small spongy air sacs…

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Why Do We Blink

We blink because dirt and dust comes in your eye so we blink and when we blink it act like a shield and when dust and dirt fly in your eyes we blink before they come in are eyes and y

This is a video of why we blink

our eyelashes is also sweeping dirt out like a broom. And our eyes blink so the brain can take a rest and it is also for you to take a rest. Do you know why we can still see a object when we blink? because our brain takes the darkness out. Did you know that a baby can blink 2 - 3 blinks/min

and an adult can blink 15 - 20 blinks/min

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