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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
- The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each ... The xylene group ranks among the top 30 chemicals produced in the ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 09:56, 22 May 2023
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one ... inversely proportional (while one increases, the other decreases).Ira N. Levine ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- or contracts to a certain extent, and when the force is released, the spring ... Simple, non-coiled springs, such as the bow (used with an arrow), ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite ... Since mesons are composed of quarks, they participate in both the ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is ... of nitric acid (HNO3) over copper metal. The reaction is the following: ...7 KB (934 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
- (petrol), as a feedstock component for the production of base petrochemicals ... Recent concerns regarding depletion of the ozone layer by freon gases ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 18:43, 23 November 2023
- German physicist who did most of his work in the Netherlands. This temperature ... measurements are made primarily on the Celsius scale. On the Fahrenheit ...13 KB (1,850 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- to air. Less dense than water, it is the second least dense metal after ... The ions, alloys, and compounds of potassium have a wide range of ...18 KB (2,538 words) - 05:52, 30 November 2022
- Argon (chemical symbol Ar, atomic number 18) is a member of the noble ... The inertness of argon is a very useful property for a number of applications ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 06:25, 12 August 2023
- Silane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SiH4. It is ... naming silanes. For instance, depending on the number of silicon atoms in ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 22:02, 29 January 2023
- on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and ... He was one of a few two-time recipients of the Presidential Medal ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- of properties known as superfluidity, and the material is said to be in ... Don Misener in 1937. It is a major facet in the study of quantum hydrodynamics. ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- sophisticated musical works. Serenades of the eighteenth and nineteenth ... a type of cantata performed outdoors. From the Classical period until now ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates ... common substrate for sample preparation for the atomic force microscope. ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- functions. These organelles are found in the cytoplasm of most plant cells ... Vacuoles and their contents are considered to be distinct from the ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- (phonetic notation and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in ... Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- observers of philosophy to have been one of the leading analytic philosophers ... analytic philosophical work betrays the extent of his impact on the field. ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton ... The properties of the antiproton are predicted by CPT symmetry ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- space in a regular pattern, often involving the transfer of energy. When thinking ... have frequencies that are detectable by the human ear. Scientists, however ...13 KB (2,010 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- a wide range of temperatures. They measure the temperature difference between ... In 1821, the German–Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered ...22 KB (3,206 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek word ἔλλειψις ... is cut with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone, the intersection ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency ... force. For example, it allows us to walk on the ground without slipping, it ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- An elastomer is a polymer with the property of elasticity. In other ... Rubbers (both natural and synthetic) are widely used for the manufacture ...7 KB (1,017 words) - 07:38, 10 August 2023
- Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that ... catalysis. In addition, it is important for the production of semiconductor ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations ... The languages of modal logics usually extend preexisting logics, e ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Ethyl acetate is an organic compound that is an ester derived from ... nail polish removers. It is also useful in the process of decaffeination ...8 KB (1,113 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- collide to produce products different from the initial particles. In principle ... In the case of radioactive decay, the transformation is spontaneous ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- highly unstable. Consequently, knowledge of the properties of this element ... This element, which was named for France, was the last element discovered ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- of molybdenum refinement, it is among the ten most expensive metals ... Rhenium is widely spread in the Earth's crust, at approximately ...10 KB (1,384 words) - 20:01, 8 December 2022
- The exponential function is one of the most important functions in ... The graph of y = e'x is shown on the right. The graph is always ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating ... In SI units, the unit of frequency is hertz (Hz), named after the ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally ... Inflammation is a response by the body to address such challenges ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- and have a relatively low content of silica. The Earth's mantle is thought ... in layers. These rock types do not represent the chemistry of the magma from ...7 KB (892 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2023
- in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- plants and fungi (Quarmby and Parker 2005). The play an important part in ... membrane and thus is not an organelle in the narrower sense of structures ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period ... found in a specific time or place, such as the "Sonoran Desert fauna ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- [[Image:Triosephosphate isomerase.jpg|thumb|350px|Ribbon diagram of ... An enzyme is a biological catalyst that regulates the rate of a chemical ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 19:04, 13 February 2024
- pH is a measure of the acidity and the basicity/alkalinity of a solution ... In aqueous systems, the hydrogen ion activity is dictated by the dissociation ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- a college of arts, science, and commerce. The Senate of Serampore College ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- materials at extremely low temperatures (on the order of −200 degrees Celsius ... Superconductors are used to make some of the most powerful electromagnets ...21 KB (3,041 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- form is highly unstable in air. It was the "secret" element ... of its oxide, yttria (Y2O3), from one of the many unusual minerals found ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & ... Both founders were Lutheran ministers. During its early years the ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) takes the form of ... subdivided into various types, according to the frequency of the wave. These ...22 KB (3,329 words) - 15:54, 13 February 2024
- Tikal (or Tik’al, according to the more current orthography) is ... In addition to the ruins of the Mayan culture, the reserve protects ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. This highly ... Phosgene was synthesized by the chemist John Davy (1790-1868) in 1812 ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of ... The isotope protactinium-231 occurs in pitchblende to the extent of ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- as sulfur, oxygen, or nitrogen, as part of the ring. Aromaticity is a chemical ... More broadly, the general term purines also is used in reference to ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- liquids, and solids. It is concerned with the production, control, transmission ... Knowledge gained through the field of acoustics has had great significance ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish ... The Celsius scale has been adopted as a standard for regular temperature ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- ores and is important as a trace element in the human body. It is used in ... Cobalt compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... The number two also represents a pair or duality. In biology, sexual ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ... of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first to build a 'car ...6 KB (974 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- branch of astronomy that focuses on the study of celestial objects ... Astronomers have discovered various types of X-ray sources in the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 14:15, 20 May 2023
- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the rationalized Planck's constant ħ, * the gravitational constant ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- or solute (substance in solution) binds to the surface of a solid or liquid ... systems. For example, activated carbon, the most common adsorbent, is ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- publisher, and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls. Funk founded the I.K. Funk & Company in 1876. The firm's ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- ethyl chloride is produced according to the chemical equation. ... At various times in the past, ethyl chloride has also been produced ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous ... With its speed and agility, the fisher is a remarkable predator that ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- :This article is about the hypothetical class of particles. ... serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. They ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- ghosts, spirits, and black magic, based on the award-winning novel of the ... Ananthabhadram won five awards in the Kerala State Film Awards 2005 ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- to its intense radioactivity, it glows in the dark with a pale blue light ... more commonly made in milligram amounts by the neutron irradiation of 226Ra ...7 KB (911 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, The Hertzsprung-Russell ... a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star of the main sequence ...10 KB (1,492 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- :This article is about the geometric shape. Reg polyhedron stat table|C ... or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a ...8 KB (1,139 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging ... large eyes with a reflective layer over the retina; a tail, if present ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- as evidence or argument for anything; the exception being when a tautology ... formal two-valued logic (i.e. logic based on the two principles: (1) that nothing ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese person to win ... in theoretical physics, particularly in the theory of elementary particles ...3 KB (480 words) - 13:02, 22 January 2024
- :This article is about the chemical compound. {{Chembox new ... point and a characteristic smell. It is the most common member of a class ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:33, 29 January 2024
- and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest of which is BO33− ... Borates in the soil stimulate plant growth, as they supply boron, ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal about the notion ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such as curves ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- chemical formula is C10H16O. It is found in the bark and wood of the camphor ... The word camphor derives from the French word camphre, itself from ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic ... which most people call noise. For example, the vibrational motions of engines ...35 KB (5,669 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- economic thought and his influential book, The Great Transformation. He argued ... Michael Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- and bumpy), and a fine sandpaper rash over the upper body that may spread ... with antibiotics is started, following the full course of prescribed ...11 KB (1,507 words) - 08:16, 17 September 2022
- " His work included development of the concept of anomie, derived ... Jewish immigrant family. Educated in the South Philadelphia High School ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- Spinach is an annual plant, Spinacia oleracea, of the flowering plant ... a rich source of iron is exaggerated due to the fact that the plant contains ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 21:39, 7 February 2023
- persons based on whether or not they accept the authority of the Vedic scriptures ... Hindu philosophy asserts that it is more important to accept the authority ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners ... The name toluene was derived from the older name toluol that refers ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- As a member of the angiosperms or flowering plants, monocots (and ... Monocots dominate great parts of the earth and comprise the majority ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- 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
- The Kwakiutl (kwakwaka'wakw) continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated ... The ceremonial feast called a potlatch, practiced among a diverse ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- 65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of ... 15 meters (49 feet) in length (Rincon 2008), the pliosaurs had disappeared ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the ... In living organisms, nitrogen atoms are part of the molecular structures ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 02:26, 16 November 2022
- [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward ... thoughts and perceptions. Introspection is the process of directly examining ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising ... for sport. Peafowl, such as exemplified by the extravagant tail of the peacock ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- The solubility of a chemical substance is a physical property referring ... Solubility is measured in terms of the maximum amount of solute that ...23 KB (3,483 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- formula is Cl2. Given its high reactivity, the free element is not found ... On the other hand, chloride (Cl−) ions are abundant in nature and ...15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling ... The high concentration of caffeine in the seeds, which is more concentrated ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally ... Angioplasty reflects on the uniqueness of human beings, whose higher ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- ranging from yellow to blue. It belongs to the same family of chemical elements ... In the Earth's crust, bismuth is about twice as abundant as gold ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- metallic element that occurs naturally in the minerals celestite and strontianite ... In addition, strontium is widely used in the glass screens of color television ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 21:04, 26 February 2023
- Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the ... The word pedophilia comes from the Greek paidophilia (παιδοφιλια ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for ... extant species is recognized, with four of the species native to the Americas ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- of the actinide series. It is produced synthetically by bombarding ... amounts, making it feasible to study the element's chemical properties ...10 KB (1,354 words) - 06:46, 12 January 2024
- The South Korean military has grown from a understaffed and under ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group. ... In a broader sense, biotite refers to the dark mica series, primarily ...5 KB (694 words) - 17:56, 31 October 2023
- occurs in association with yttrium. It is the heaviest and hardest of the ... elements. Consequently, it is also one of the most expensive metals, costing ...11 KB (1,371 words) - 03:06, 5 November 2022
- a rare, hard, white metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements ... This element is generally found in ores with the other platinum group ...13 KB (1,814 words) - 18:24, 22 December 2022
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... 10,000 species of liverworts. Some of the more familiar species grow ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Fire extinguishers have been a major part of fire prevention. The ... The typical steps for operating a fire extinguisher (described by ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was ... explicitly credited Leucippus with the invention of atomism. His ...5 KB (714 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- corrosion. It is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, in which ... lead, and zinc to prevent corrosion. As the most tonally resonant metal ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- drop between its terminals in proportion to the current. Resistors are used ... The mathematical relationship between the electrical resistance (R ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- to do this in order to spawn other incubi. The incubus drains energy from ... such a spirit by either males or females (the female version of the incubus ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- and fermentation processes, and to set the proper conditions for dyeing ... The main component of a buffer solution, such as a weak acid or weak ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the ... that is prolonged or present much of the time, and 0.5 percent are ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the ... and the first member of this group to be produced synthetically. Its ...11 KB (1,451 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Shen-hsiu; Japanese: Jinshū) was one of the most influential Chan Buddhist ... of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- by living cells or another organism. The term sometimes is used in ... mechanism, and they can be highly complex (the venom of the cone snail contains ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 04:49, 1 May 2023
- :This article is about the astronomical term. [[Image:Solar eclips ... A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- born British entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency ... An innovator in the field, he still recognized the need to cooperate ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... The weather began to ease in February and Washington appointed General ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Magnesium (chemical symbol Mg, atomic number 12) is the eighth most ... In its ionic form, magnesium is one of the most essential elements ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ... The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects ... For example, the Virgo Cluster, located in the constellation Virgo ...13 KB (1,886 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United ... Virginia on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles ... The formation of proteins by rRNA, mRNA, and tRNA is remarkably complex ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- any one of a group of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly ... Ferns are among the oldest land plants, dating back to the Carboniferous ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted Street ... 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- In zoology, cricket is the common name for any of the grasshopper ... Crickets provide values for the ecosystem and for humans. Ecologically ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- It is found in the minerals gadolinite, monazite, and xenotime. The ... monazite sand (~0.03 percent ytterbium). The element is also found in euxenite ...11 KB (1,375 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- a bright silvery metal that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... techniques, and electrochemical deposition. The metal is often prepared by ...11 KB (1,437 words) - 02:07, 23 December 2022
- as stainless steel, and in chrome plating. The human body needs trace amounts ... colored and used in paints and pigments. The red color of rubies derives ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- between that of large gas giant planets and the lowest mass stars. Unlike ... heavier than about 65 M_J also fuse lithium. The only planet known to orbit ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- The Bhimbetka rock shelters compose an archaeological site and World ... The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- benthos, and plankton), they rank among the top five most abundant groups ... . For most humans, other than adding to the wonder of nature, gastrotricha ...12 KB (1,482 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- It is associated with several other rare earth elements in the mineral ... exchange production techniques developed in the late twentieth century have ...11 KB (1,419 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... Existentialists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries approached ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla ... north of Kandy. The largest and best-preserved cave temple complex ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
