Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
