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- A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- Silicon (chemical element symbol Si, atomic number 14) is a member of a group of chemical elements classified as metalloids. It is less reactive ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the vertebrate kidney, with numerous such filtering units carrying out nearly all the ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. It is often done by melting ...41 KB (6,376 words) - 23:28, 3 May 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
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- Gasoline (also called gas, petrol, or petrogasoline) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87, a naturally occurring ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- Toluene, also known as methylbenzene or phenylmethane, is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- Cerium (chemical symbol Ce, atomic number 58) is a silvery metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. It ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 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
- An airship or dirigible is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an aerostatic craft, to ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- Corrosion is the deterioration of a material's essential properties as a result of reactions with its environment. It can be concentrated ...20 KB (3,072 words) - 03:36, 8 January 2024
- Tellurium (chemical symbol Te, atomic number 52) is a relatively rare chemical element that belongs to the group of metalloids—its chemical ...14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H, h, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally the large intestine). Various types of colitis have been identified, such ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- Borates are chemical compounds containing borate anions, that is, anions composed of boron and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- John von Neumann (Hungarian Margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a mathematician who made contributions ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 03:36, 7 December 2022
- Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living organisms. As a vitamin, ascorbic ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
- The greenhouse effect is the process in which long wave radiation (infrared) emitted by the earth surface is absorbed by atmospheric gases only ...23 KB (3,592 words) - 23:26, 17 February 2023
- Sir James Chadwick, CH (October 20, 1891 – July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024
- An optical fiber (or optical fibre) is a glass or plastic fiber designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- 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
- A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within a rocket engine ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- 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
- J. Robert Oppenheimer The meaning of the "J" in J. Robert Oppenheimer has been the source of confusion among many. Historians Alice ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- Silk is a fine, soft and yet strong proteinaceous fiber that is naturally produced by certain arthropods, and with some forms, particularly that ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 2023
- Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are microscale devices and systems that integrate electronic components with mechanical ones. They are ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 10:39, 10 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
- Renewable energy is a term for any useable energy that is harnessed from natural resources that are either essentially inexhaustible (such as ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:minerals.jpg|right|frame|An assortment of minerals. Photo from [http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/mineral.html ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Aluminum (or aluminium) (chemical symbol Al, atomic number is 13) is a soft, lightweight metal with a silvery appearance and the ability to resist ...38 KB (5,676 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- Fritz Haber (December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a method ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- Sphagnum is the common name and genus name for a group of mosses (Division Bryophyta) whose leaf-like appendages are adapted to absorb and retain ...14 KB (2,165 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- 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
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Tanning is the process by which raw animal skins and hides are converted into leather. This process permanently alters the protein structure ...11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- Saccharin is a synthetic organic compound that tastes hundreds of times sweeter than cane sugar (sucrose) and is used as a calorie-free sweetener ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- Electrostatics is a branch of science that involves the investigation of phenomena related to what appear to be stationary electric charges. ...18 KB (2,558 words) - 16:05, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) takes the form of self-propagating waves in a vacuum or in matter. EM radiation has both electric ...22 KB (3,329 words) - 15:54, 13 February 2024
- Category:Public number=20 | symbol=Ca | name=calcium | left=potassium | right=scandium | above=Mg | below=Sr | color1=#ffdead | color2=black ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 2023
- An automobile (or motor car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 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 dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has a chemical affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are hydrocarbon fuels found within the top layer of the Earth’s crust. They range from highly volatile materials ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living ...74 KB (10,725 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and sustain life. As the existence ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed such a system ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- The lung is either of the two primary respiratory organs in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic radiation. The "electromagnetic spectrum" (or just spectrum ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 15:55, 13 February 2024
- Svante August Arrhenius (February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Sarnoff, David David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- The term acid rain is commonly used to mean the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, fog, dew, or dry particles. The more accurate ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 07:41, 14 June 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
- 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
- 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
- Antimony (chemical symbol Sb, atomic number 51) is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary assertion is that the universe has expanded into its current state from ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Its brightness ranges from about -2.0 ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe. It involves studies of the physical properties (luminosity ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- 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
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled use of nuclear reactions to release energy for work, including propulsion ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their center of mass. For each member of a pair, the other is called its ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- Sodium chloride, also known as common salt or table salt, is a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. Its mineral form is called halite. It ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 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
- A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability. Submarines ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- The development of the periodic table of the elements parallels the development of science and our understanding of the physical universe. It ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Psychologists Morgan, C. Lloyd [[File:C. Lloyd Morgan. Photogravure by Synnberg ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- Choline is a water-soluble organic compound that is classified as an essential nutrient for humans (Higdon and Drake 2008; PDR 2008; Swan and ...15 KB (2,128 words) - 23:57, 13 January 2023
- A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a long, whip-like projection or appendage of a cell composed of microtubules (long, slender, protein tubes ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound that is found as a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It consists of simple molecules, each of which has ...34 KB (5,140 words) - 19:07, 26 November 2023
- A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, so that gaseous pressure is much less than standard atmospheric pressure. ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- Silver (chemical symbol Ag, atomic number 47) is a soft metal with a brilliant white luster that can take a high degree of polish. Along with ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- Category:Public number=8 | symbol=O | name=oxygen | left=nitrogen | right=fluorine | above=- | below=S | color1=#a0ffa0 | color2=green ...23 KB (3,469 words) - 06:02, 18 November 2022
- Karst topography is a three-dimensional landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- The Crab Nebula (catalog designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Located ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It consists mostly of electrons ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 00:46, 4 February 2023
- A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, (from the Greek: aéros- "air" and -planos "wandering") ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 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
- 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
- category:image wanted Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family of mathematical models used for strategic analysis of ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei. They are the largest of the many moons of Jupiter and have been ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material) world at all levels (subatomic to cosmic), especially when regarded as distinct ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest global energy company, a multinational oil company ("oil major" ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- 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
- Cholesterol is an important sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes ...23 KB (3,346 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்) (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aleph, is a Japanese New Religious Movement which gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 17:50, 22 August 2023
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- theory, the universe began as a mixture of hydrogen-1 (75 percent) and helium-4 (25 percent) with only traces of other light atoms. All the other elements ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the "Red Planet ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Chevron Corporation ( CVX ) is the world's fourth-largest non-government energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, U.S., and ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 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
- James Watt (January 19, 1736 – August 25, 1819)Although a number of otherwise reputable sources give his date of death as August 19, 1819, ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- 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
- A candle (from the Latin word candere, meaning "to shine") is a light source that usually has an internal wick rising through the center ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- each second 600 billion kilograms of hydrogen-1 (single proton]]s) into 595.2 billion kilograms of helium-4 (2 protons combined with 2 neutrons ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to develop the first ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing arts venue, is located in London's Covent Garden district. The ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 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
- Amber is the common name for fossil resin or tree sap that is appreciated for its inherent and interesting mixture of colors. Although not mineralized ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, and rejecting it elsewhere for the primary purpose ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- Lava is molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. (When the molten rock is beneath the Earth's surface, it is called magma. ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
- A clock (from the Latin word cloca, meaning "bell") is an instrument for measuring time. In its most common form, in use since at least ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected to it via the ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 – February 8, 1804) was an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator. As an educator ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure, or incapacitate ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states of matter. Plasma is typically an ionized gas, but it is usually considered ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- Robert Hutchings Goddard, Ph.D. (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American scientist and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- A parachute is a device used to slow the descent of a person or object falling through the atmosphere by creating drag. The atmosphere is usually ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan (November 15, 1897 – July 6, 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was a key figure on the left ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
- Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- Fertilizers (also spelled fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- Angela Dorothea Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is a German politician and scientist who served ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Plutonium (chemical symbol Pu, atomic number 94) is a radioactive, metallic chemical element that is part of the actinide series. It is the element ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle encompasses diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the question ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys to and from a given area undertaken by all or part of a bird population. Not ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment of Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948. In the aftermath of the ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- Yellowstone National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the western states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It is the first and oldest national ...33 KB (5,106 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
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- Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. It is located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- In general terms, geothermal energy is thermal energy (the energy that determines the temperature of matter) generated and stored in the Earth ...43 KB (6,456 words) - 20:26, 13 December 2023
- Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. shortened to Nissan is a multinational automaker headquartered in Japan that manufactures automobiles, trucks, buses ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist, and author. He established himself in Mexico ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha, or Toyota in short, is a Japanese automaker. It is the world's second largest ...43 KB (6,055 words) - 04:51, 1 May 2023
- Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be thought of as an ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9,1970), in France commonly referred to as général de Gaulle, was a French ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Encyclopedia Britannica, [http://www.britannica ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 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
- Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes, the term solar ...90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- 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
- Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
