What Paul and Nancy should do to ensure a fair comparison between all the hives is to d<span>ocument the number of bees as compared to the amount of honey per hive.
This is the only fair comparison, because they will know approximately how much each of the groups produced compared to the number of bees.
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The most important thing is to try and extinguish a fire if a fire extinguisher is near. If not, they second most important thing is to rush out of the lab using the fire escape route and call the local fire department which will then handle the situation.
I think the answer is non reactive. As the outer shells gets filled ,valency decreases, so reactivity also decreases.
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