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- Curium (chemical symbol Cm, atomic number 96) is a radioactive, metallic, transuranic element "Transuranic elements" are the chemical ...10 KB (1,354 words) - 06:46, 12 January 2024
- Americium (chemical symbol Am, atomic number 95) is a radioactive, synthetic metallic element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic ...9 KB (1,328 words) - 06:50, 25 July 2023
- Fuel is any material that is burned or altered to obtain energy. Fuel releases its energy either through chemical means, such as combustion, ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- ==== Pu-239 ==== Plutonium-239 is one of the three fissile materials ... with a half-life of 373,300 years, and Pu-239, with a half-life of 24,110 ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- Thorium (chemical symbol Th, atomic number 90) is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive metal and is a member of the actinide series. It ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Woolley, Leonard Sir Leonard Charles Woolley (April 17, 1880 – February 20, 1960 ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts (lighter nuclei), often producing photons (in the form of gamma rays), ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Neptunium (chemical symbol Np, atomic number 93) is a silvery radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the first ...11 KB (1,451 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Einsteinium (chemical symbol Es, atomic number 99) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A metallic, highly radioactive, transuranic element ...7 KB (940 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280 B.C.E. – 233 B.C.E., ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
- reaction (by converting fertile U-238 to Pu-239) which allows an operational ... into plutonium-239, which is another fuel. Pu-239 is a viable fuel and must ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro Aisin-Gioro is ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- Yunnan ( s=云南 |t=雲南 |p=Yúnnán ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Hua Tuo (華佗, 華陀, 华陀, Huá Tuó) (? - 208) was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China ...11 KB (1,818 words) - 01:27, 4 February 2023
- The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to develop the first ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Yáng Guìfēi ( t=楊貴妃|s=杨贵妃|p=Yáng Guìfēi ) (literally means, "precious princess consort") (June 1, 719 — July 15 ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- *Pu-239 + neutron -> fission fragments + 2.95 neutrons + 200 MeV. This excludes 10 MeV for unusable and hardly detectable neutrinos. ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty (second millennium B.C.E.) record eclipses and novae. Detailed ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Li Houzhu ( c=李後主|p=Lǐ Hòuzhǔ|l=The Latter Lord Li , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主, literally "the ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[File:A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.jpg ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four main schools of thought ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Samarium (chemical symbol Sm, atomic number 62) is a bright silvery metal that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. It ...11 KB (1,437 words) - 02:07, 23 December 2022
- The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦颐/周敦頤; Pinyin: Zhōu Dūnyí; Wade-Giles: Chou Tun-yi; 1017-1073 C.E.), or Zhou Lianxi (周濂溪; Chou Lien ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- Gu Kaizhi ( t=顧愷之|s=顾恺之|p=Gù Kǎizhī|w=Ku K'ai-chih ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded as ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- Huang Taiji (November 8, 1592 – September 21, 1643; reigned 1626 – 1643) ( c=皇太極|p=Huáng Tàijí ; transliteration from Manchu: Hong ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- Oolong ( c=烏龍 → wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green (no oxidation) and black (fully oxidized) teas in oxidation ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...16 KB (2,171 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates ...43 KB (6,933 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Xu Guangqi ( t=徐光啟|s=徐光启|p=Xú Guāngqǐ|w=Hsu Kuang-ch'i , Christian name Paul Hsü) (1562 – 1633), courtesy name Zixian ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Qi Baishi ( s=齐白石|t=齊白石|p=Qí Báishí , also Ch'i Pai-shih or Ch'i Huang) (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on earth. It is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³), ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- <!-- Glitch in calculations equations under Notable Features. --> {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Nanda Devi and Valley of ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
