I’ve recently been working on a programming project, and one of my considerations during development has been coupling. Like many programming concepts, coupling is an analogy to real-world systems, although I’m not sure it’s supposed to reference any specific thing. The term is used in various science and engineering domains where it refers to two…
Tag: physiology
It’s what plants crave
What are electrolytes and how do they work? And do plants crave them? Let’s start with… Ions An ion is an electrically charged particle, often an atom with a “missing” or “extra” electron. Molecules can be held together by ionic bonds in which oppositely charged atoms are attracted to each other by electrostatic forces. A…
