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- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. In simpler ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide is dissolved ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) (from Sanskrit: meaning "attendant") refers to Buddhists who are not monks, nuns or novices belonging ...9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from 1305 to his ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca. 370 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἱπποκράτης Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic). Aristotelian logic ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain extent, and ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- In biblical scholarship, the documentary hypothesis proposes that the Pentateuch (also called the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Hoolock gibbon is the common name for any of the arboreal, tailless, Asian apes belonging to the gibbon genus Hoolock, characterized by long limbs, thick and ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- Populus is a genus of deciduous trees in the flowering plants family Salicaceae, characterized by flowers in the form of long, drooping catkins and by spirally ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, a pupil of Xenocrates and fellow student of Polemo. Crantor was known for his poetic ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty has come to include ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
