Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- proteins such as hemoglobin, is essential in the human diet and normally is ... Phenylalanine (in the L-isomer form, which is the only form involved ...15 KB (2,091 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- Igneous rocks form when magma (molten rock) cools and solidifies. ... Igneous rocks make up approximately 95 percent of the upper part of ...25 KB (3,680 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Nitric acid (chemical formula HNO3) is one of the most important inorganic ... NH4NO3) for fertilizers. It is also used for the manufacture of explosives ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders ... The seated statue occupied the whole width of the aisle of the temple ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is derived ... fixed points and interpolating thermometers. The most recent official temperature ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula ... pulping. It was first synthesized in 1866 by the Russian scientist Alexander ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 16:50, 22 July 2020
- 8 (eight) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... ==Evolution of the glyph== In the beginning, various groups in India ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- A planarian is any flatworm (phylum Platyhelminthes) of the suborder ... The term "planarian" is most often used as a common name ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- mystic, and a mathematician, known best for the Pythagorean theorem. The earliest Greek philosophers in Ionia, known as the Ionians, such ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- Calcium (chemical symbol Ca, atomic number 20) is the fifth most plentiful ... in its elemental state. Rather, it occurs in the form of various compounds: ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 2023
- been used in a number of murders, earning the nickname "inheritance ... Some thallium compounds were used in the past as rat poisons and insecticides ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- amounts of propylene, butane, and butylene. The odorant (ethanethiol) is also ... in gasoline by Dr. Walter O. Snelling of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1910 ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant ... Fertilizers typically provide, in varying proportions, the three major ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... In 1601, Ricci became the first foreigner from the West to enter the ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- Rajendra Chola I, the son of Rajaraja Chola I, the great Chola king ... armies exacted tribute from Thailand and the Khmer kingdom of Cambodia ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana ... The Tathagatagarbha doctrine is significant because it reiterates ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- is 30-50 times sweeter than sugar, making it the least potent of the commercially ... 1 part saccharin is commonly used and masks the off-tastes of both sweeteners. ...7 KB (974 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- critics and philosophers. He was a master of the Kula school of Shaivism, but ... His Tantra-Âloka (Light on the Tantras), which appears to have been ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- slightly above room temperature and melts in the hand. It is one of only a ... Gallium is most commonly used in the form of the compound gallium ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- carbide tools for metalworking, and for the production of superalloys ... Tantalum occurs principally in the minerals tantalite [(Fe, Mn) Ta2O6 ...14 KB (1,813 words) - 03:03, 19 April 2023
