Kettle

Breville’s Adele Schober demonstrates the features and functionality of the Variable Temperature Tea Kettle.

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This DVD is both a film and a deep resource tool.

The film documents the Teakettle Experiment, a ten-year collaboration of forest managers and scientists from diverse disciplines that investigated the effects of prescribed fire and forest thinning on restoring forest health.

A century of fire suppression has significantly changed many western forests, leaving them overcrowded and susceptible to disease, pests, and catastrophic crown fires that endanger lives and property.

Experts agree that reducing fuel loads in our forests lessen the chances of forest devastation. But until the Teakettle Experiment, deciding which method for doing so remained controversial.

With a multi-disciplinary team to study the relative effects of prescribed fire and thinning, the Teakettle Experiment collected invaluable information on the benefits and detriments of each option. The result is documented in this DVD, which also contains multiple videos, resources, reference materials, instructional materials, and website links.

The principal feature on the DVD is the film, Fire and Forest Health, which outlines the problems in our forests, and then reveals how the experiment was conducted over ten years.

In addition to the principle video, there are five short videos on related topics:

* Small mammals and forest ecology
* Climate change and forest management
* Science and forest management
* Pest, pathogens and drought
* Forest restoration

This comprehensive resource tool is an excellent introduction to forest management, scientific inquiry, interdisciplinary investigation, ecosystem functions, species interdependence, and more. It is interactive, with on-screen messages that directly link the video content to printable research papers and weblinks related to the topic. A Resource Guide expands upon the content in the videos with information and tools for instructors.

Appropriate for AP environmental science in high school and college-level forestry and resource management courses.

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A 0.4-kg aluminum teakettle contains 3 kg of water at 29°C. How much heat is required to raise the temperature to 100.0°C? answer in kcal

perhaps you might consider finishing the question?

And then someone could answer it!

As it is, the answer is: a very small amount of heat will raise the temperature, smaller than you can measure.

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specific heat of Aluminum is 900 J/kgC
specific heat of water is 4186 J/kgC

E1 = 900 x 0.4 x 71 = 25600 J
E2 = 4186 x 3 x 71 = 892000 J

add them up, total power = 917 kJ = 219 kcal

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I just discovered it but have been drinking tea made from water boiled in it for quite some time. Oh well, it will make a cute planter but have I been poisoned in the meantime?

Hopefully its harmful rust, like iron or such. I don’t think a tea kettle would be made from lead so its probably alright. A little rust is to be expected anyways, it is hard to prevent in the long run, its just the natural oxidation of the metal caused by the water.

If you don’t want to turn your tea kettle into a planter you can buy some steel wool and try to scrub that rust with molasses then make sure your kettle is dried and that you never let it sit with water in it. Anti-rust products can be more harmful than rust itself so I don’t recomend using them.

Don’t worry. You can always visit http://www.dansk.com/ and look up the care instructions for your teakettle. It seems like a reputable company so I doubt their products could poision you. Ask the manufacturer if you are really concerned.

Rust poisioning usually comes from paints or rusted items that contain zinc oxide or lead oxide, your teakettle would not have contained either.

ANC fatcat politician (chairman of the finance portfolio in SA Government)falls off his chair when it breaks under his considerable bulk – ON LIVE TV! It doesnt get better than this…

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I got a teakettle for X-mas that’s stainless steel, and whenever I use it, it has a horrible taste, My husband said there may be a filter lining on the inside and to boil water in it several times, then try it out, I did all day yesterday and I tried to use it this morning and it still smells and taste weird.. I tried washing it and soaking it for an hour in hot water, and still does it? How do I get rid of this.. And of COURSE He threw the box out so I can’t return it…

Try boiling water with vinegar in it, and then rinse thoroughly, and boil water in it a few times to remove the residual vinegar. Good luck!

Forest fires are often devastating and may become even more prevalent. Explore the results of the Teakettle Experiment, an extensive study that compared the effects of mechanical thinning, prescribed fire and their combination in reducing forest fire intensity and ecosystem processes. [2/2008] [Science] [Show ID: 13443]

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Vinegar will remove the build up cheaply and thoroughly. Lemon juice will also work. To keep build up from forming buy a stainless steel scouring pad (a stainless scrubby) and keep it in your teakettle. Boil your water with the scrubby in it. No more build up. They sell them in kitchen stores packaged for this purpase but much more expensive.

The “Tea Kettle” sound the gas tank makes..

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Try soaking the teakettle with white vinegar. Then clean with dish soap and water before use. You may have mineral buildup from the water. Vinegar should do the job. If you want more answers try nancyskitchen on yahoo. The members really help each other with answers to questions such as this.