Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic ... and supported President Polk throughout the Mexican-American War. Cass ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art ... Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... types can be applied to these to synthesize the product, or an intermediate ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- known as halogens. Chemically, it is the most reactive and electronegative ... for a wide range of applications, including the manufacture of pharmaceuticals ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 17:47, 28 March 2024
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- loosely associated with and essential for the activity of enzymes, serving ... The term coenzymes is sometimes defined in such a way as to include ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. However, the element itself was not isolated ... (or lanthanide) that lies in period six of the periodic table, between terbium ...10 KB (1,193 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Crappie (plural: Crappie or crappies) is the common name for either ... Both species of crappie are very popular game fish. The Pomoxis species ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 01:11, 7 April 2022
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae ... Melaleuca provides various values for the ecosystem and for humans ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle ... After the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846, most of Major General ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- It is frequently used as a proxy for the importance of a journal to ... Impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute ...28 KB (3,975 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
