Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers ... Potash has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of glass, ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make ... Feldspar is derived from the German Feld (field) and Spat (a rock ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus of an atom and insufficient ... This process leaves the atom of the daughter element in an excited ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ... The reactants and products are shown using their chemical formulas ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. ... It can be shown from the laws of thermodynamics that absolute zero ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- Umam) (c. 1500 - December 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the ... 1960, and is commemorated on February 20, on the anniversary of his death. ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- The word "acid" comes from the Latin acidus meaning "sour ... An acid (often represented by the generic formula HA) is any substance ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 07:38, 14 June 2023
- areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which a geometric ... The primordial example of extrinsic curvature is that of a circle ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive ... The term curve is also used in ways making it almost synonymous with ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famous for the novel À rebours. His style ... Huysmans," using an approximation of the Dutch equivalent of his forenames ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material ... Conduction is the most significant means of heat transfer in a solid ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Neon (chemical symbol Ne, atomic number 10) is the fourth most abundant ... Neon (from the Greek word νέος, meaning "new") was discovered ...6 KB (841 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή ... A particular case arises when the plane is tangent to the conical ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- of considerable accomplishment, avoiding the overly pro-Slavic style of ... Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famous family of Count ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas ... Denoted by the symbol R, the value of the gas constant is: ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed ... The presence of carbonic acid in the blood and other body fluids helps ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- #039;s ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease ... Much more serious than lactose intolerance, which prevents the body ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of ... Earth has the best characterized and perhaps the most complex crust ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... Hungary, which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- Astatine (chemical symbol At, atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally ... The total amount of astatine in the Earth's crust has been estimated ...6 KB (808 words) - 05:08, 18 August 2023