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- and varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy ... and Glenn Seaborg discovered the radioisotope cobalt-60. ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
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- and varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy ... and Glenn Seaborg discovered the radioisotope cobalt-60. ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- Pentlandite is a mineral consisting mainly of iron-nickel sulfide, in which the ratio of nickel to iron is usually close to 1:1. Its chemical ...8 KB (1,093 words) - 17:53, 26 March 2023
- Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt because it shares a common origin, magma, with basalt ...5 KB (628 words) - 07:32, 15 April 2024
- Silica gel is a granular, porous form of silica, produced synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite the name, silica gel is a solid. It readily ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- [[Image:Cobalt-60 Decay Scheme.svg|thumb|300px|Decay scheme of 60Co]] Gamma rays, x-rays, visible light, and UV rays are all forms of electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements (metallic or nonmetallic), forming a solution or chemical compound that retains ...17 KB (2,388 words) - 08:10, 23 July 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Neodymium Neodymium is frequently misspelled as neodynium. (chemical symbol Nd, atomic number 60) is a silvery metallic element that is a member ...12 KB (1,578 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:GreenPaintBucketRome.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dried green paint]] Paint is the general term for a family of products used ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 06:16, 18 November 2022
- Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- Anodizing is a technique used to coat the surface of a metal with an oxide layer. It may be used to increase corrosion resistance, increase wear ...10 KB (1,610 words) - 05:12, 31 July 2023
- Rhodium (chemical symbol Rh, atomic number 45) is a rare, silvery-white, inert metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements and is ...13 KB (1,685 words) - 20:04, 8 December 2022
- For a chemical reaction to take place, it requires a certain minimum amount of energy, called its activation energy. If a substance can lower ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:plasma fountain.gif|thumb|300px|right|The Earth's "plasma fountain," showing oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 11:09, 6 March 2024
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- Smoke is the airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases evolved when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion, together with the quantity ...7 KB (1,034 words) - 21:19, 30 January 2023
- Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó) (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the characteristic structure of ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- is being replaced by other radioisotopes—such as cobalt-60 and cesium-137—when there is a need for radioactive sources that are safer to handle or ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 22:47, 7 December 2022
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of organic compounds with 1 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl and a general chemical formula ...24 KB (3,627 words) - 08:41, 24 November 2022
- Electronic waste, "e-waste," or "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment" ("WEEE") is a waste type consisting ...10 KB (1,429 words) - 16:03, 13 February 2024
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
- produced has largely supplanted the older use of Cobalt-60 therapy as a treatment tool. === Tandem electrostatic accelerators === In a tandem ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- 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
- Lapis lazuli, also referred to as lapis, is a stone with one of the longest traditions of being considered a gem. Deep blue in color and opaque ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Korean name |hangul=신문왕 |hanja=神文王 |rr=Sinmun Wang |mr=Sinmun Wang |hangulborn=정명 or 일초 ...11 KB (1,743 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- In common terminology, transition metals (or transition elements) are chemical elements that lie in groups 3 through 12 of the periodic table ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, located in Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east and northeast ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 20:21, 13 December 2023
- The term chiral is used to describe an object that is not superposable on its mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 17:06, 10 December 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief administrative, financial, and commercial center. Located in the south ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- skeleton, blood, and tumors. Gamma radiation from cobalt-60 is used for sterilizing medical equipment, treating cancer, pasteurizing certain foods and ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital city when it gained independence from Britain in 1962. The city is coterminous ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 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
- Category:Public [[Image:Glass-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown ...28 KB (4,417 words) - 07:52, 24 January 2023
- Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed in China during the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or Congo, and formerly as Zaire, is the second largest country by area on the ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- Ceramic engineering is the technology that involves the design and manufacture of ceramic products. Ceramics are inorganic, nonmetallic materials ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- Cloisonné, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items. Objects ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Niobium or columbium (chemical symbol Nb, atomic number 41) is a rare, soft, gray metal. It was discovered in a variety of columbite (now called ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 04:59, 15 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, defined by the United Nations scheme of geographic regions as consisting ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera, better known as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier men's basketball league. It has 30 teams; 29 in the United States ...32 KB (4,894 words) - 01:38, 11 November 2022
- Category:Public number=74 | symbol=W | name=tungsten | left=tantalum | right=rhenium | above=Mo | below=Sg | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...17 KB (2,431 words) - 18:45, 2 May 2023
- Salt is a mineral, composed primarily of sodium chloride, which is commonly eaten by humans. There are different forms of salt: unrefined salt ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell ...35 KB (5,135 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered over the central ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, (usually pronounced yoo-GAN-duh) is a country in East Africa, bordered to the east by Kenya, on the north ...18 KB (2,666 words) - 23:11, 24 March 2024
- In electrical engineering and industry, thermocouples are a widely used type of temperature sensor and can also be used as a means to convert ...22 KB (3,206 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwestern portion of the country. It is named after the enormous ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- The thermoelectric effect is a phenomenon by which a temperature difference is directly converted to electric voltage and vice versa. On the ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- Category:Public number=30 | symbol=Zn | name=zinc | left=copper | right=gallium | above=- | below=Cd | color1= | color2=black transition metals ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- French Polynesia, or as it is known in Tahitian language, Porinetia Farani, is a French "overseas country" in the southern Pacific ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- |- | Critical temperature || 1673 K (gray) 24.44 ? 34.76 24.64 553 | 596 | 646 | 706 | 781 | 874 | comment= color1=#cccc99 | color2=black ...21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
- Sichuan ( c=四川 |p=Sìchuān |w=Szŭ4-ch'uan1 ; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- ( s=甘肃 |t=甘肅 |p=Gānsù |w=Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest region ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures that are tubular in shape, having diameters on the order of a few ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- such as americium for use in smoke detectors, and cobalt-60, molybdenum-99 and others, used for imaging and medical treatment. **Production of ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0.02 and 1.7 percent by weight. Carbon is the most cost-effective ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Côte d'Ivoire, commonly called Ivory Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), is a country on the coast of West ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 years ago. The legend of Dangun, the mythical founder of Korea, makes an impact ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in the central part of southern Africa. Zambia covers an area of 752,614 square ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- A hard disk drive (HDD), also known as a hard disk or hard drive, is a data storage device used in many types of electronic equipment including ...35 KB (5,548 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain of central ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- Shirley Temple Black (née Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 14:21, 27 January 2023
- Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and several adjacent ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) is one of the world's best known and most beloved artists. He is perhaps as widely known ...53 KB (8,229 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula of Southern Europe that is home to three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
