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- Carbon monoxide, with the chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It is the product of the incomplete combustion of ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 19:08, 26 November 2023
- Fire occupies a unique place in nature. It is not matter itself, but it involves the reaction of different types of matter to generate energy ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- Zeolites are an extremely useful group of minerals characterized by a microporous structure—that is, a structure with minute pores. Chemically ...15 KB (2,158 words) - 05:51, 13 June 2023
- Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is a hydrocarbon belonging to the group of alkynes. It is considered to be the simplest of all alkynes as ...14 KB (2,038 words) - 07:36, 14 June 2023
- Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829) was an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 20:56, 9 February 2024
- Air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort ...34 KB (4,855 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- Watershed has traditionally designated the dividing line, or drainage divide, between two drainage basins; that is, the ridge of high land or ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- Activated carbon (also called active carbon, activated charcoal, or activated coal) is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 01:03, 24 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
- The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that studies objects as they would appear in the infrared (IR) region of the electromagnetic ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- In physics and chemistry, an atomic orbital is a region in which an electron may be found within a single atom. J. Daintith, Oxford Dictionary ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public [[image:Common_clownfish.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their magnificent sea anemone (Heteractis ...33 KB (5,007 words) - 07:43, 24 October 2022
- Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities. It usually forms part of a larger chemical ...29 KB (4,405 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- A chemical element, often called simply element, is the class of atoms which contain the same number of protons. An older definition refers to ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with solid, liquid, and plasma. Each state is characterized by distinct physical ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- 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
- Friedrich Wöhler (July 31, 1800 - September 23, 1882) was a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- In chemistry, esters are organic compounds in which an organic group (symbolized by R' in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- Flour is a finely ground powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding cereal grains or other edible, starchy portions of plants and used chiefly in ...20 KB (3,186 words) - 08:08, 21 May 2021
- Natural gas in the broad sense is a gaseous material consisting primarily of methane and deriving from one of three main types of sources: deeply ...25 KB (3,786 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which red ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 19:10, 16 April 2023
- Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 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
- Phosphorus (chemical symbol P, atomic number 15) is a multivalent nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. Uranus is similar in composition to ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- Walnut is the common name for any of the large, deciduous trees comprising the genus Juglans of the flowering plant family Juglandaceae, which ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- Acetylcholine, often abbreviated as ACh, is a small, organic molecule that is a derivative of choline and acetic acid and serves as an important ...16 KB (2,189 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon, along with other assorted substances, including sulfur. It is ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian (aeolian, or wind-related) processes. Dunes can take different forms and sizes ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged image. Electron microscopes ...20 KB (2,873 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- X-rays (or Röntgen rays) are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies ...25 KB (3,822 words) - 14:14, 20 May 2023
- A magnetosphere is a dynamically varying tear-drop shaped region of plasma comprising magnetic fields and charged particles surrounding a magnetized ...23 KB (3,695 words) - 05:21, 5 November 2022
- Bromine (chemical symbol Br, atomic number 35) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. It is the only liquid ...10 KB (1,346 words) - 04:33, 22 November 2023
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- In chemistry, a carbene is a highly reactive organic compound with the general molecular formula "R1R2C:." This formula indicates that ...12 KB (1,686 words) - 07:11, 24 April 2023
- Cycads (division Cycadophyta) are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than soft X-rays. The name ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:30, 18 April 2023
- A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the interconversion of chemical substances. [http://goldbook.iupac.org/C01033.html Chemical reaction ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 14:43, 5 December 2023
- Buffer solutions are solutions that resist changes in pH (by resisting changes in hydronium ion and hydroxide ion concentrations) upon addition ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang ( t=長江 |s=长江|p=Cháng Jiāng ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, after ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American physicist and chemist. He is best known for an experiment in ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 16:28, 9 August 2023
- A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 02:49, 8 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Water cycle.png|right|thumb|400px|The movement of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.]] ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- Lanthanum (chemical symbol La, atomic number 57) is a soft, silvery white metallic element. Found in combination with other rare earth elements ...11 KB (1,398 words) - 22:23, 22 October 2022
- Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the name given to a number of gases present in the earth's atmosphere which reduce the loss of heat into space ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- Category:Public number=12 | symbol=Mg | name=magnesium | left=sodium | right=aluminium | above=Be | below=Ca | color1=#ffdead | color2=black ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Sustainable development is defined as balancing the protection of the natural environment with the fulfillment of human needs so that these needs ...14 KB (1,869 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- Yttrium (chemical symbol Y, atomic number 39) is a lustrous, silvery metal that is found in most rare-earth minerals. It is relatively stable ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (particularly trains) through ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology The history of agriculture is the story of humankind's development and cultivation ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Scandium (chemical symbol Sc, atomic number 21) is a soft, silvery-white metal. Scandium ore occurs in rare minerals from Scandinavia and elsewhere ...12 KB (1,615 words) - 17:06, 25 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
- Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 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
- Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living organisms ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- Barley is any annual cereal grass of the genus Hordeum, and in particular the species Hordeum vulgare. The term also is used for the edible grain ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials and help attach them together. The state of attachment is known as adhesion ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- George Washington Carver (c. early 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who dedicated his life to applying science and ...18 KB (2,868 words) - 15:04, 21 May 2024
- Ether is the general name for a class of organic chemical compounds characterized by molecules that contain an ether functional group—an oxygen ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often caused by human activities and its misuse. Haphazard disposal of urban ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self-sufficient ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- Maize, also known as corn and Indian corn, is any of the diverse cultured forms of the annual cereal grass (family Poaceae) of the species Zea ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- Aniline, phenylamine, or aminobenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2. It is an organic chemical compound, specifically an aryl ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling without requiring relative motion ...40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
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- Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SO. This colorless liquid is an important polar aprotic solvent that ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 16:50, 22 July 2020
- Strontium (chemical symbol Sr, atomic number 38) is a soft, silvery white metallic element that occurs naturally in the minerals celestite and ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 21:04, 26 February 2023
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. After Earth's Moon, it is the brightest object in the ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. This important gas is the main product from the combustion ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- Propane is a three-carbon alkane, normally a gas, but compressible to a liquid that is transportable. It is derived from other petroleum products ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks exchanging photons and gluons. Antimatter is made of anti-atoms, and anti ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing food, feed ...27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- Titanium (chemical symbol Ti, atomic number 22) is a silvery-white, lustrous metal. Light and strong, it is resistant to corrosion, including ...27 KB (3,874 words) - 03:49, 1 May 2023
- Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar system. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter and the third largest ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- The incandescent light bulb or incandescent lamp is a source of artificial light that works by incandescence. An electrical current passes through ...44 KB (6,810 words) - 12:43, 4 March 2024
- The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) [https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Glycine.html#max Glycine max] Multilingual Multiscript ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- Diesel, or diesel fuel, is any fuel that is used to operate a diesel engine. Most commonly, it refers to a specific liquid fuel obtained by the ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an electronic-optical device that emits coherent radiation ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- B. bison B. bonasus B. antiquus extinct B. latifrons extinct B. occidentalis extinct B. priscus extinct Bison are members of the genus Bison of ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 8 March 2023
- Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under either shear stress or extensional stress. It is commonly perceived as ...36 KB (5,462 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The country's name ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Black powder is the original gunpowder; it was one of the few known propellants and explosives until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
