Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * the organic functional group characterized by a carbonyl group ... Amides are the most stable of all the carbonyl functional groups. ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- odorless, heavy noble gas that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere in ... Xenon is a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, occurring in ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with ... Further oxidation of SO2, usually in the presence of a catalyst such ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- The chemical compound nitric oxide is a gas with formula NO. It is ... The nitric oxide molecule is a free radical, which is relevant to ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising ... small fish, and even plankton (in the case of manta rays), while ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Ice is the name given to water in the solid state. In nature, it is ... (phases) and several amorphous forms of ice. The most abundant type of ice ...24 KB (3,832 words) - 17:09, 10 February 2024
- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, ... Silkworm species vary in terms of the quality of silk they produce ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that ... insights into processes that occur during the birth and death of stars, ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- The peripheral drift illusion (PDI) is an optical illusion that creates ... The peripheral drift illusion was first described by Jocelyn Faubert ...4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Terbium is never found in nature as the free element, but it is contained ... in Yttrium-oxide, Y2O3, and named after the village Ytterby in Sweden ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87 ... This element is considered to be the sixteenth most abundant element ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic ... and supported President Polk throughout the Mexican-American War. Cass ...9 KB (1,235 words) - 17:17, 3 July 2024
- The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings ... non-western traditions, such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- have a nucleus and cytoplasm and are part of the immune system, defending the ... The main categories of leukocytes are granulocytes (neutrophils, basophils ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 17:08, 3 July 2024
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure ... Compressors are similar to pumps in that both increase the pressure ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant ... The element is never found in nature in pure form, but it is found ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- components, and business machines. The company is perhaps best known ... Seiko emphasizes the idea that "reliable quality is the starting ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic element ... plutonium with neutrons. It was named for the Americas, by analogy with europium. ...9 KB (1,328 words) - 06:50, 25 July 2023
