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Rotten Science
By Linda | March 4, 2009
After living things die, they are acted upon by bacteria, molds, fungi, etc. causing them to rot. This decaying process releases elemental components to be used again & again in the environment to build and sustain new life. It’s recycling at it’s most basic level.
Here is an interesting array of videos featuring this fascinating process at work on some unfortunate produce…
To see what happens to butter and margarine left out for 39 days CLICK HERE
Topics: Food Science, Nature, The Petri Dish |
April 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Really interesting - my 10 year old son and I loved these clips.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Very interesting - you have a great site here - well done!