It will take anywhere from 24 hours to two days to thaw a whole chicken in the refrigerator, and about 2 to 9 hours for cut-up chicken parts (less for boneless pieces). You can thaw chicken more quickly in a cold water bath or by using the defrost cycle of the microwave.
1. Compact Discs: CD-Text vs. Online Databases. CD-Text is an Interactive Text Transmission System that was added to the Red Book CD-DA standard in 1996. Using CD-Text, information like Artist Name, Album Title, and Song Title is stored in the lead-in of a Red Book CD. CD players and CD-ROM drives that support CD-Text can display that information during playback.
As you learned in my All About CD-R and CD-RW Daily Drill Down, CD-ROM data is stored in patterns of pitted and unpitted (âlandâ) areas on a disc. DVD data is stored the same way, except the pits are much smaller and closer together. Thatâs why CD-ROMs top out at about 650-700 MB of data, while DVDs can hold multiple gigabytes of data. Since the pits are more tightly written on a DVD disc, the mechanism in the drive for reading them also has to be finer and more precise.