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Element-ary

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Obscuring Li's Obfuscation of Implementation, Archived Material, and Delineation  Lithium is an interesting element.  It's in the same group of Rubidium and Francium.  So... highly reactive.  But we all still love it because, well, Tesla.  Their batteries are Lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion).  There is a difference between Li-ion and just plain Lithium batteries.  Lithium batteries can't be recharged, but Li-ion batteries can.   There is Lithium here, but in the batteries. Lithium in its true form A Lithium atom But onto the topic of how the element works.  It is element in group one, so it is unstable especially with water.  Sodium's best friend, maybe, I don't really know.  But it's not like Sodium, exploding with air, you can keep it in stuff like oil, or a dry place.  And since it is less dense than oil, it floats. Lithium was discovered in 1817 by Johan August Arfwedson.  He did it by ele...
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Natives

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Native Plants A problem that I have noticed is the lack of native plant species (outside of trees).  I know we are getting some  native plants with the parking lot landscape, but that's not enough. A butterfly gets nectar from Blazingstar The problem is that we don't have enough native plants.  So, not everyone likes plants.  Why?  Good question, I don't really know.  But we could get some people into them by putting plants at HC.  If there are native plants, then the kids can see what comes with them.  Animals like birds and butterflies and bees and whatnot.  We have a forest, so as for where they are going to nest, that's not a problem.  But the birds eat a lot of the seeds from a prairie.  So, long story short the kids will love it, but they don't have it.  Worst case scenario with this?  It takes a two or three years to get it established. Meadow Blazingstar So here's what we need to do.  We need t...
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