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- Osmium (chemical symbol Os, atomic number 76) is a hard, brittle, ... The compound osmium tetroxide is very toxic but has a number of important ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan ... After the war, he was a chief advisor to the newly created United ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- The basic principle behind the particle accelerator is simple: Collide ... In 1909, Ernest Rutherford discovered that the atom consists of a ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- Plutonium (chemical symbol Pu, atomic number 94) is a radioactive ... uranium ores. These come about by a process of neutron capture by 238U nuclei ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by ... Fusion reactions power the stars and produce all but the lightest ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- |colspan=2|[[Image:Quartz Crystal.jpg|270px|Photo of quartz crystal group]] ... | Onyx || Agate where the bands are straight, parallel and consistent ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic ... 235 (0.72 percent), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0058 percent ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled ... The use of nuclear power has also engendered much debate. Critics ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... After World War II, Japan was occupied by a foreign power for the ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- Phosphorus (chemical symbol P, atomic number 15) is a multivalent ... When purified artificially, several different allotropic forms of ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- :This article elaborates on the central technology of generating nuclear ... at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... The U.S. ended its occupation in part to bolster its efforts in the ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- researcher. Pauling is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth ... Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his campaign against ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- kami, paper; "folding paper") is the Japanese art of paper folding ... Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
