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- chemical elements known as halogens. It is the only liquid nonmetallic element ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...10 KB (1,346 words) - 04:33, 22 November 2023
- single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera ... relationships with algae and some use the chloroplasts from ingested ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. ... between 10 and 1,000 times that of the Sun.Patrick Moore, "Giant ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- insulin), is normally readily converted from the essential amino acid phenylalanine ... In humans, the L-isomer of tyrosine, which is the only form that is ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 00:41, 3 May 2023
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated ... in 1877. These dinosaurs also reflect upon the changing history of life, ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- (ZrSiO4), usually contain between one and five percent hafnium. Hafnium and ... Hafnium (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen," the hometown of ...10 KB (1,277 words) - 16:40, 21 January 2024
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented ... Tardigrades reflect the remarkable diversity of living organisms, ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School, which began ... Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support the claims of Parmenides: ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- as Wen·di, personal name Yang Jian, was the founder and first emperor ... Emperor Wen of Sui was definitely one of the most public leaders in ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:Mach band.svg|frame|right|Notice the dark band that appears ... provide a valuable way to investigate how the eye and brain process visual ...4 KB (546 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- compete against one another by gambling on the values of each player's ... several variants. Historically, Draw was the first form of poker to evolve ...21 KB (3,695 words) - 08:29, 24 November 2022
- feared for her malevolence. According the Greek legends, the goddess ... Similar to other female monsters in Greco-Roman myth (such as the ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- [[File:Cure juvenile delinquency in the slums by planned housing 3b48917r ... yet as they are still legally children, the way of dealing with them cannot ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (or plane angle) is the figure ... The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning "a ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- chroma, meaning "color") is the collective term for a family ... The main use of chromatography is to purify a certain material from ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
- go down an inrun with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go fly ... Ski jumping, like skydiving, is a sport practiced by those who enjoy ...18 KB (2,601 words) - 22:45, 29 January 2023
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder ... Microbats provide a valuable role in the ecosystem through limiting ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός quot;) is a subatomic particle formed by the binding together of quarks ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- acid, is a mineral (inorganic) acid having the chemical formula H3PO4. Alternatively ... There are two distinct kinds of orthophosphoric acid, based on the ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its ... The phenomenon of escape velocity is a consequence of conservation ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- there is better visual acuity for objects in the distance than nearby. This ... This defect can be attributed to the length of the eye, if it is too ...9 KB (1,278 words) - 13:21, 4 February 2023
- Vitamins are organic (carbon-containing) nutrients obtained through ... Vitamins can act both as catalysts and participants in the chemical ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the eleventh ... His time as U.S. president is most notable for the largest expansion ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- performed almost entirely by computer. The term, Computer Based Learning ... once an application has been set up, the cost per additional student ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 08:09, 14 January 2023
- is a material that is highly resistant to the flow of an electric current ... An important application of dielectrics is to separate the plates ...14 KB (1,888 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- its thermodynamic critical point. It has the unique ability to diffuse ... In 1822, Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour discovered the critical ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... Promethium has also been identified in the spectrum of the star HR ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old ... Many of the megabat nectarivores are important for pollination of ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- tree, Carica papaya, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but ... The papaya fruit is both delicious and nutritious. It provides several ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 07:31, 18 November 2022
- The element is never found as a free element but does occur in the ... in columbite ore that was sent to England in the 1750s by John Winthrop, the ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 04:59, 15 November 2022
- a distinctive scent, flavor, or essence of the plant. This large and diverse ... For the plant, essential oils are thought to be vital for the life ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi ... 5, 1960) was an influential figure in the development of modern American ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros ... The narwhal also is known as the unicorn whale because of its unique ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- such as political changes and revolutions. The theory is mostly applied to ... it is questionable whether this represents the ideal human society. Although ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- or neutralize its acidic properties, change the color of indicators (e.g. ... and several of them are commonly found in the home. Household ammonia is ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- ), covers an area of 932 km², constituting the first national park of Nepal ... The Royal Chitwan National Park is the best example of a pristine ...12 KB (1,640 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds ... . Their unique forms and behaviors add to the aesthetic beauty of the aquatic ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 12:22, 24 January 2023
- blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family and is found ... The compound osmium tetroxide is very toxic but has a number of important ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- Uracil is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids ... In RNA, uracil replaces thymine as the usual complement of adenine ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:37, 12 November 2022
- (IUPAC name)) is a chemical compound with the formula C2H4(OH)2. It is classified ... and aircraft. It is being used to inhibit the formation of natural gas clathrates ...16 KB (2,258 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- * the organic functional group characterized by a carbonyl group ... Amides are the most stable of all the carbonyl functional groups. ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- odorless, heavy noble gas that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere in ... Xenon is a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, occurring in ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with ... Further oxidation of SO2, usually in the presence of a catalyst such ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- The chemical compound nitric oxide is a gas with formula NO. It is ... The nitric oxide molecule is a free radical, which is relevant to ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising ... small fish, and even plankton (in the case of manta rays), while ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Ice is the name given to water in the solid state. In nature, it is ... (phases) and several amorphous forms of ice. The most abundant type of ice ...24 KB (3,832 words) - 17:09, 10 February 2024
- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, ... Silkworm species vary in terms of the quality of silk they produce ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that ... insights into processes that occur during the birth and death of stars, ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- The peripheral drift illusion (PDI) is an optical illusion that creates ... The peripheral drift illusion was first described by Jocelyn Faubert ...4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Terbium is never found in nature as the free element, but it is contained ... in Yttrium-oxide, Y2O3, and named after the village Ytterby in Sweden ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87 ... This element is considered to be the sixteenth most abundant element ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings ... non-western traditions, such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure ... Compressors are similar to pumps in that both increase the pressure ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant ... The element is never found in nature in pure form, but it is found ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- components, and business machines. The company is perhaps best known ... Seiko emphasizes the idea that "reliable quality is the starting ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic element ... plutonium with neutrons. It was named for the Americas, by analogy with europium. ...9 KB (1,328 words) - 06:50, 25 July 2023
- military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic ... and supported President Polk throughout the Mexican-American War. Cass ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art ... Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... types can be applied to these to synthesize the product, or an intermediate ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- known as halogens. Chemically, it is the most reactive and electronegative ... for a wide range of applications, including the manufacture of pharmaceuticals ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 17:47, 28 March 2024
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- loosely associated with and essential for the activity of enzymes, serving ... The term coenzymes is sometimes defined in such a way as to include ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. However, the element itself was not isolated ... (or lanthanide) that lies in period six of the periodic table, between terbium ...10 KB (1,193 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Crappie (plural: Crappie or crappies) is the common name for either ... Both species of crappie are very popular game fish. The Pomoxis species ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 01:11, 7 April 2022
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae ... Melaleuca provides various values for the ecosystem and for humans ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle ... After the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846, most of Major General ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- It is frequently used as a proxy for the importance of a journal to ... Impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute ...28 KB (3,975 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat ... Gandhinagar has the opportunity to incorporate twenty-first-century ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- combined in several minerals and is one of the 26 elements that commonly ... detected spectroscopically in light from the Sun and some other stars. ...15 KB (2,022 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- particularly what was later referred to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 ... In 1870, he gained an engineering degree from what is now the Polytechnic ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- Marathi poet Sant of India, related to the Bhakti movement of Maharashtra ... Born the son of a family and traders, Tukaram was innocent of worldly ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo ... His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Jasmine or Jessamine is any of the more than two hundred species of ... Jasmine is native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- prey, defense, and locomotion. Most of the 1,400 or so species are marine ... that is long and thin, and distinguished by the presence of an eversible proboscis ...11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Europium (chemical symbol Eu, atomic number 63) is the most reactive ... It was named after the continent Europe. == Occurrence == ...10 KB (1,254 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- symbol Cs, atomic number 55) is a member of the group of chemical elements ... This element has many isotopes, of which the single stable isotope ...14 KB (1,931 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- jpg|thumb|300px|The Willamette Meteorite, the largest ever to be found in ... A meteorite is a small extraterrestrial body that impacts the Earth ...5 KB (669 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- painter of ancient China, is regarded as the founder of traditional Chinese ... Gu Kaizhi emphasized details that revealed the characteristics of the figures ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals ... although they are not true lemurs. They are the most capable of all gliding ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- may be labeled "all natural" in the United States. It is often ... The varieties of sweeteners listed as corn syrup differ in the amount ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- as a limit. When used as an adjective in the vernacular, infinitesimal ... Before the nineteenth century, none of the mathematical concepts as ...9 KB (1,387 words) - 22:44, 5 February 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum ... There are other aromatic plants both in and outside the mint family ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President ... a result, most of his cabinet resigned, and the Whigs, dubbing him His Accidency ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- - February 27, 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. She was ... and later into Switzerland where they joined the emigre community of revolutionaries ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera ... and include many with scented wood, such as the genera Calocedrus ("incense ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- invoked this concept in his account of the causes of suicide. He suggested ... The word anomie comes from Greek, namely the prefix a-: "without ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 10:44, 30 October 2021
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation ... By comparison, visible light occupies the middle range of the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- The name nylon is given to a family of synthetic polymers first produced ... In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Free space is characterized by the defined value of the parameter ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- War I and World War II (finally supporting the latter conflict only after ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- white metallic element and a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... In nature, gadolinium is found not as the free element but in various ...13 KB (1,750 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- propan-2-one and β-ketopropane) is the simplest representative of ... solvent for many organic compounds and is the active ingredient in nail ...10 KB (1,364 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was ... Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad, India as the eldest daughter ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... nonrotating white dwarf can be heavier than the Chandrasekhar limit. ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- and has important dietary implications. The L-isomer of lysine, which ... Lysine is low in concentration in the proteins of many cereal grains ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
