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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous?
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    2 days ago

    Half of the websites when I google and sometimes the AI summary depending on how it’s googled. This became a debate with my wife last night. I said only iron is ferrous she said showed a bunch of references to Nickel and Cobalt as ferrous.

    I also found this in Wikipedia, which seems the most likely reason for the terminology confusion:

    In chemistry, the term is largely obsolete, but it often means iron, cobalt, and nickel, also called the iron triad;[1]. It may sometimes refer to other elements that resemble iron in some chemical aspects, such as the stable group 8 elements

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•We are so cooked
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    23 days ago

    Honeybees compete for resources with native bees and are much more efficient foragers, and it’s hard to state the scope of impact they have had on native bee populations, but most believe it to be significant.

    They were introduced to North America in the 1600s and then again, over repeated colonizations as colonizers were frustrated that native bees didn’t produce honey. Native Americans called them “white man’s flies”.

    Africanized honey bees were introduced from South America around the 1990s. Which are even more aggressive in their foraging and nature then their European cousins, although produce more honey.

    Native bees are relatively docile and some variants lack the ability to sting at all.

    Here is an article, or op ed about the problem: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/