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- Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- A rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and mineral-like substances called mineraloids. Rocks are classified as igneous, sedimentary ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 02:25, 16 December 2022
- Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image = [[Image:Earl Hall Columbia University NYC.jpg|200 px|Earl Hall, ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 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
- Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota to the north, and the states of Wisconsin and Michigan to the south ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet ( August 13, 1819 – February 1, 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made many important ...20 KB (3,027 words) - 15:59, 20 May 2024
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though it has started exporting oil, these bright prospects are marred by widespread ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 11:58, 13 May 2024
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- 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
- Milan Kundera ( ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra ) (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 12:12, 24 August 2023
- In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation. More specifically, it is defined as an area that ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 09:55, 29 January 2024
- Jiangxi ( c=江西 |p=Jiāngxī |w=Chiang-hsi ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain is the name under which 18 caves located in different regions of northern Spain are ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
- Igneous rocks form when magma (molten rock) cools and solidifies. The solidification process may or may not involve crystallization, and it may ...25 KB (3,680 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world's leading form of renewable ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- Australasia is a term used to describe a region within Oceania. The physical countries, islands or regions that comprise Australasia vary greatly ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- Anti-tank warfare refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, particularly tanks. The most common anti-tank weapons ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- Max Theodore Felix von Laue (Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, October 9, 1879 – April 24, 1960 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He demonstrated ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
