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media type="custom" key="21631288" Here is what I learned during our  study of Structures and Mechanisms. I think If we wanted to make our house stronger we could of put another floor under the roof and then put some sicks from the floor to the roof to support the roof.

I think if we wanted to mae our bridge stronger we could have put more tape on the sides and built a stronger post on the bottom by rolling the paper more tightly.

I would not do any thing to our egg drop device because it is already as strong as it needs to be.

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media type="custom" key="21631214"The ingredients in lipstick are waxes such as beeswax, paraffin and carnauba wax. The oils that are in lipstick are lanolin oil, castor oil, olive oil and cocoa butter. The fat that is in lipstick is from a cow's brain. There is also pigments, emollients, vitamin E and aloe vera.

Beeswax comes from bees. Bees have 4 pairs of glands on their underside of their abdomens which secrete pinhead sized flakes of wax. Paraffin wax comes from plants that died millions of years ago. These plants decompose and form crude oil. Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of the Carnauba Palm (Northeastern Brazil). It comes in the form of hard yellow-brown flakes. It is obtained from the leaves of the Carnauba Palm, then, beating the leaves to loosen the wax then refining and bleaching the wax.

Lanolin oil comes from the sebaceous glands of a sheep. It is taken out of the wool that is sheared from the, then it is purified. Castor oil comes from the Castor Bean. The process of extracting the oil is by removing the hulls and then the seeds are coldpressed. Olive oilcomes from olive trees (98% of the olive oil comes from the Mediterranean). It is obtained by pressing and centrifuging crushed olives. Cocoa butter comes from the cocoa bean. These beans are usually found in parts of Africa as well as the Caribbean and Latin Amarica. The beans grow in pods that are located on trees in tropical areas. Once the pods have been opened and the beans have been extracted, the beans are processed into cocoa butter.

Making lipstick is harmful to the environment because they have to kill bees and without bees, our crops wouldn't grow and our flowers wouldn't grow.

media type="custom" key="21631222"The materials undergo chemical change because you can't get them back after you make them into lipstick. There are no waste materials while making lipstick because if there is extra, it is used for the next batch of lipstick.

The environmental consequence for producing lipstick is the smoke that comes out of the factory pollutes the air.

media type="custom" key="21631232"Lipstick is distributed by shipping the lipstick to cosmetics stores, walmart and other places that sell lipstick. They ship it by trucks, boats, airplanes and trains.

This is harmful to the environment because the smoke from the trucks, boats, ariplanes and trains pollutes the air.

media type="custom" key="21631238"This product lasts for about 2 months.

media type="custom" key="21631250"Lipstick is disposed of by putting it on your lips and then there is no more left, you throw it in the garbage. Lipstick does not break down because it contains D4 and D5. Lipstick can be recycled if you've used up all of the lipstick because the tube it comes in is plastic.

The environmental consequence for disposing lipstick is that the D4 and D5 will build up.

Lipstick is not sustainable because lipstick requires oil and wax which we will eventually run out of.

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I learned alot about transformation of energy when we made a balloon powered car. I learned that the balloon used kinetic energy and elastic energy. Kinetic energy is when you phisically move something on your body or push, pull, run, jog, swim, or do something. Elastic energy is when a balloon expands or an elastic band streches. When the elastic is released, the balloon transforms the wind energy back to kinetic energy.