Search results for "Collision" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Collision with icebergs constitutes a serious hazard for shipping near the polar regions. A well-known example is the sinking of the RMS Titanic ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- deplete their lithium. This occurs by a collision of Lithium-7 and a proton ... CH4, H2O, and molecular hydrogen (H2) collision-induced absorption (CIA ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- SSN-772|6 in dry dock, following collision with a fishing boat.]] A dry dock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- collided with the Eurasian Plate, and the collision of the two plates pushed ... and Vanuatu, were pushed up by the collision of the Australian plate ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- emits a flash of light upon an alpha particle collision. Rutherford hypothesized that, assuming the "plum pudding" model of the atom was ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- during a metamorphic period brought on by the collision of ancient volcanic island arcs with the southern end of what we now know as Wyoming. The lighter ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- off the surface of the platter should a collision occur. However, this head ... head crash, external trauma (dropping or collision), power surges, and so ...35 KB (5,548 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- India landmass (Indian Plate) before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate ... formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- sedimentary rocks until there was a collision between the North American continent and a terrane. This collision, called the Trans-Hudsonian ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- include attrition which is particle to particle collision that results in agglomerate break up or particle shearing. Compression which is applying compressive ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- that necessitated management. To avoid gear collision, gillnetters and longliners are separated and not allowed to fish in the same grounds south ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- but this order brought him into fateful collision with congressional spoilsmen. Although political opposition prevented most of the reforms ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- particles coming from the solar wind. The collision between the magnetic field ... 65 million years ago, when a meteorite collision is thought to have triggered ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- During the stormy session of 1770 he came into collision with Pitt the Elder and Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden in the questions that arose out ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- a pipe to a container of larger iron balls. The collision would cause the larger balls to travel down a lower pipe and hit a giant cymbal, announcing ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 16:10, 8 February 2023
- There is also a danger of collision from objects under the water surface. These include sand, coral and rocks. [http://www.surfingsandiego.com/hardbottoms ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- entrance to the Bay of Fundy to lessen the risk of collision. The bay is also traversed by several passenger and automobile ferry services: ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- they are believed to have originated by the collision of two large proto-planetary objects (see the giant impact hypothesis). The material that would ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002), and Happy Feet (2006). Numerous conservation projects and animal parks have ...16 KB (2,294 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- for the birth of the solar system by interstellar collision. He considered radiation pressure as accounting for comets, the solar corona, the aurora ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
