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- and varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy ... and Glenn Seaborg discovered the radioisotope cobalt-60. ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
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- and varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy ... and Glenn Seaborg discovered the radioisotope cobalt-60. ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- Pentlandite is a mineral consisting mainly of iron-nickel sulfide, in which the ratio of nickel to iron is usually close to 1:1. Its chemical ...8 KB (1,093 words) - 17:53, 26 March 2023
- Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt because it shares a common origin, magma, with basalt ...5 KB (628 words) - 07:32, 15 April 2024
- Silica gel is a granular, porous form of silica, produced synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite the name, silica gel is a solid. It readily ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- [[Image:Cobalt-60 Decay Scheme.svg|thumb|300px|Decay scheme of 60Co]] Gamma rays, x-rays, visible light, and UV rays are all forms of electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements (metallic or nonmetallic), forming a solution or chemical compound that retains ...17 KB (2,388 words) - 08:10, 23 July 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Neodymium Neodymium is frequently misspelled as neodynium. (chemical symbol Nd, atomic number 60) is a silvery metallic element that is a member ...12 KB (1,578 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dried green paint]] Paint is the general term for a family of products used ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 06:16, 18 November 2022
- Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- Anodizing is a technique used to coat the surface of a metal with an oxide layer. It may be used to increase corrosion resistance, increase wear ...10 KB (1,610 words) - 05:12, 31 July 2023
- Rhodium (chemical symbol Rh, atomic number 45) is a rare, silvery-white, inert metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements and is ...13 KB (1,685 words) - 20:04, 8 December 2022
- For a chemical reaction to take place, it requires a certain minimum amount of energy, called its activation energy. If a substance can lower ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:plasma fountain.gif|thumb|300px|right|The Earth's "plasma fountain," showing oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 11:09, 6 March 2024
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- Smoke is the airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases evolved when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion, together with the quantity ...7 KB (1,034 words) - 21:19, 30 January 2023
- Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó) (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the characteristic structure of ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- is being replaced by other radioisotopes—such as cobalt-60 and cesium-137—when there is a need for radioactive sources that are safer to handle or ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 22:47, 7 December 2022
