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- #039;s remark that "tons" of U-235 were needed for a bomb "But tell me why you used to tell me that one needed 50 kilograms of ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- compared to another method: when a U-235 atom captures a neutron, it is converted to an excited state of U-236. Some of the excited U-236 nuclei ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Nucleosides are structural subunits of nucleic acids, the macromolecules that convey genetic information in living cells. They consist of a nitrogen ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Bronfenbrenner, Urie Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917 – September 25, 2005) was a renowned Russian-born American psychologist ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 17:47, 28 March 2024
- Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 - May 29, 1892), was the founder of ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- Lead (chemical symbol Pb, atomic number 82) is a soft, heavy metal. Bluish white when freshly cut, it tarnishes to dull gray when exposed to ...18 KB (2,664 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- Karl Dönitz (IPA pronunciation: [ˈdøːnɪts] ) (September 16, 1891 – December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of ...19 KB (2,885 words) - 18:15, 14 May 2024
- *It is a carrier for U-235 or U-233 fuel in nuclear reactors. *Bismuth subnitrate is a component of glazes, producing an iridescent luster finish. ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy sets. The concept of fuzzy sets provides a convenient way to represent various ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (or plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint. The endpoint is called the ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak Peasant Rebellion (東學農民革命) or the 1894 Peasant War (Nongmin Jeonjaeng ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- |- | Electron affinity || -53 kJ/mol 702 | 1470 | 2850 135 183 156 color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black no data 50.6 7440-26-8 isotopesof=technetium ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Miller, Merton Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist. He won a ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive idea of a geometrical one-dimensional and continuous object. A simple example ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- more than the natural 0.7 percent U-235, is used to make rods of ... of U-238, with most of the easily fissile U-235 isotope removed. U-238 is ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- Glaciology is the study of natural forms of ice, particularly glaciers, and phenomena related to ice. It includes the study of how glaciers are ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 14:34, 22 May 2024
- Nobelium (chemical symbol No, atomic number 102), also known as unnilbium (symbol Unb), is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A radioactive ...7 KB (962 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873, - December 30, 1962) was an influential American intellectual historian and philosopher ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (March 1, 1897 – November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith ...19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 2023
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency" The word "Gaon" meant "pride" or "splendour ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- Fermium (chemical symbol Fm, atomic number 100) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A highly radioactive metallic transuranic element ...7 KB (998 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- Siyyid `Alí Muhammad (October 20, 1819 – July 9, 1850), better known as the Báb, was a martyred Iranian religious leader recognized by his ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- In particle physics, a quark is one of the elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. Elementary particles ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
- The Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna tablets") are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material that indicates its ability to conduct heat. It appears primarily in Fourier ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Radioactive decay is the process by which an excited, unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting radiation in the form of particles or ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Taejo of Joseon (1335-1408; r. 1392-1398), born Yi Seonggye, was the main figure in overthrowing the Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:NSRW Africa Hottentot.png|thumb|Portrait listed in the ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- The Toungoo Dynasty (1486-1752) was one of the most powerful post-Bagan Burmese kingdoms, over which seven kings reigned for a period of 155 ...18 KB (2,701 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script is derived from the Later Sharada script and was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- Venn diagrams are schematic diagrams used in logic and in the branch of mathematics known as set theory to represent sets and their unions and ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- Diphtheria is a highly-contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, an aerobic Gram-positive bacterium. It is generally an upper ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 00:38, 26 August 2020
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always, declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle. An alpha particle (or α particle, named after ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant of the rare earth metals. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- In physics, the proton (Greek πρῶτον proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit. ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 08:20, 2 December 2022
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Woo Jang-choon (1898-1959), a renowned Korean-Japanese agricultural scientist and botanist, had been born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Even though ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:29, 17 May 2023
- General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) ( MY=Image:BogyokeAungSan.png|MLCTS=buil hkyup aung hcan: ; bòʊdʒoʊʔ àʊn sʰán ); February 13, 1915 ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia. Members of the Bahá'í faith understand ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- category:image wanted Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. This is commonly called alphabetization, though ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco in the family Falconidae, characterized by a short, curved, notched beak ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Category:Psychologists Yerkes, Robert Robert Mearns Yerkes (May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was a psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 to assist the United States Congress and Supreme Court access legal documents ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- ( sa|देवनागरी , ˈdeɪvəˌnɑgəri ) is an abugida script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that is, the change of velocity with time. An object is said to undergo ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- John Venn (born Hull, Yorkshire, August 4, 1834 – died Cambridge, April 4, 1923), was a British logician and philosopher, who is famous for ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 04:30, 3 May 2024
- In particle physics, fermions are a group of elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. In the Standard Model ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- Ytterbium (chemical symbol Yb, atomic number 70) is a soft silvery metallic rare earth element. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare ...11 KB (1,375 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the international ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- King Gongmin (공민왕 恭愍王1330 – 1374) ruled Goryeo (Korea) from 1351 until 1374. He was the second son of King Chungsuk( 충숙 忠肅王 ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 09:05, 20 December 2022
- Lanthanum (chemical symbol La, atomic number 57) is a soft, silvery white metallic element. Found in combination with other rare earth elements ...11 KB (1,398 words) - 22:23, 22 October 2022
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria and one of Europe's most popular tourist attractions ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Thermodynamics (from the Greek θερμη, therme, meaning "heat" and δυναμις, dynamis, meaning "power") is a branch ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology {{Infobox WS |name=Cuneiform ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed in the Peruvian Andes by the pre-Incan Chavín ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the vertebrate kidney, with numerous such filtering units carrying out nearly all the ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks exchanging photons and gluons. Antimatter is made of anti-atoms, and anti ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p=yīnyáng ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Praseodymium Praseodymium is frequently misspelled as praseodynium. (chemical symbol Pr, atomic number 59) is a soft silvery metallic element ...12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head in general in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It may ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- A vortex (plural vortices) is a rapidly spinning, circular or spiral flow of fluid around a central axis. The swirling motion tends to suck everything ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 21:04, 3 May 2023
- Kurt Josef Waldheim (December 21, 1918 – June 14, 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Ultramafic (or ultrabasic) rocks are dark-colored igneous and meta-igneous rocks that are rich in minerals containing magnesium and iron ("mafic ...7 KB (892 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2023
- Hickory is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Carya of the Juglandaceae family, characterized by pinnately compound ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:46, 25 January 2023
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea after 1000 years of political influence. Goryeo, established in 918, united ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- Category:Public [[File:Om symbol.svg.png|thumb|right|250px|Om/Aum in Devanagari script]] Aum ([[File:Om symbol.svg.png|16px|]]), also rendered ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 07:07, 13 June 2023
- Zōu Yǎn or Tsou Yen ( c=鄒衍/邹衍|p=Zōu Yǎn|w=Tsou Yen ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. The zero position on this scale is known as absolute zero, which is defined ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half-life is defined as the time it takes for the sample to decay to half its ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:04, 3 August 2023
- Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is the name given to what is generally, but not universally, considered to be an extinct species ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication {{Infobox WS | name = Braille | type = Alphabet | typedesc = (non-linear ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. It is concerned with ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- Sand is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, made up of small particles or granules called sand grains. It can vary in composition, but ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose full title can be translated as, The Monk Baegun's Anthology of the ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- Alligator is the common name for large, primarily aquatic reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and order Crocodilia ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
