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Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/Team/Emblem
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Team Emblem
The team emblem is composed of representative elements of our state and our school. The red lion appears in the emblem of the State of Nuevo León, located in the upper right box. It symbolizes vigilance, authority, magnanimity and sovereignty. The torch that the lion holds with its forelegs, it’s a symbol of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, where CIDEB, our high school, belongs. The motto of the flame is Alere flamman veritatis, which stands for the way that the students of this University work.
Project emblem
It was not easy to find the correct name for Khumus, that’s why, a small investigation was made. It was searched about Latin or Greek origins of words related to our project.
There are different theories about the origin of the word chemistry, according with locations and cultures. One of these theories, in fact a little bit more supported in nowadays, states that Khemeia (chemistry) is derived from the Greek word Khumus, which means plant juice. This juice could be replaced by metal, so Khemeia could mean “Metallurgy art”.
As the idea of this project is to semi-quantify the amount of heavy metals in a substance like water, we believed that Khumus is a word that is adequate for being the name of our representing bacterium.
Latest News
March 25, 2012
Headline
Back in the early nineties (yeah, i'm old) i was tripping ballz on acid one night with some friends.
class="date"> March 26, 2012
Headline II
At some point one of us got the brilliant idea to test out our clairvoyant abilities under the influence and we set up a nifty experiment where one of us would take a random card out of a playing deck and would try to 'send' the card telepathically to one of the others. When me and my best friend at the time were up, I ended up calling the exact card three times in a row.
March 27, 2012
Headline III
Pretty much left the room speechless. The weird thing is, when we talked about it later on we both sort of knew beforehand we could do this and couldn't stop smiling during the whole ordeal.
