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Why is Swiss cheese perforated?

We like different types of cheeses because they have different flavors. Cheese acquires flavor during its preparation, ripening. Cheese ripening takes place in special storage facilities with strict control over compliance with temperature and humidity. During maturation, harmless bacteria, fungi, molds develop inside or on the surface of the cheese, so that the taste and smell of the product appears. For example, it takes many different microorganisms that develop in cheddar cheese to give it a specific taste.

Other types of bacteria and fungi give Limburger or Derkranz cheese a special flavor. Special types of bacteria are also used to produce Swiss cheese. They are called propionic bacteria and give Swiss cheese its delicate, mild flavor. The impact of these bacteria also determines such a strange appearance of this cheese. During its maturation, bacteria produce gas. Bubbles of this gas form round holes, or "eyes", in the cheese.

Some cheeses get their appearance and flavor from molds. For example, the blue veins of Roquefort cheese, its bluish color and savory taste are due to a mold called penicillom roqueforti. Gray-white mold, penicilla camemberti, give Camembert cheese a low density and a specific taste.

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Who discovered the atom?

The ancient Greeks believed that everything in existence is made up of atoms. In fact, the word "atom" comes from the Greek word meaning "indivisible", because the Greeks thought that if you divide something until it becomes impossible to do so, the result will be the last atom. Now, even though the Greeks knew about it, we cannot say for sure that it was they who discovered the atom. First of all, their belief in the atom was unscientific: it did not come from any scientific information and was not supported by it. It was just a "philosophical" idea about being and the world.

The atom, as we know, was discovered on the basis of scientific research and theories. Until about the beginning of the 1803th century, the idea of what matter or substance consists of was considered only by philosophers! Then came the English chemist and mathematician John Dalton, and in XNUMX he was the first to develop a scientific theory of the atom.

Dalton was a diligent experimenter. He weighed samples of many gases and found differences in their masses. He discovered that gases, as well as solid and liquid substances, are composed of incredibly small particles, which he also called atoms. He calculated the relative masses for the atoms of the elements known to him. When Dalton established that atoms of different elements have different properties and different masses, he really laid the foundation for the scientific knowledge of the atom.

Of course, there has not yet been a precise explanation of what an atom is and what role it plays. Another Englishman, Ernest Rutherford, almost 100 years later, substantiated a theory of the atom, reminiscent of the description of the solar system: a heavy positively charged nucleus in the center, surrounded by negatively charged electrons.

Today, scientists think that an atom is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons, positrons, neutrinos, mesons, and hyperons. In general, they discovered more than 20 different particles in the composition of the atom. But, what is most strange, there is still no complete description of the atom that can explain everything about it.

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