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- Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park located in south-central Utah. Established as a national monument in 1937, it was ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:09, 25 November 2023
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan country in western Africa, named after the Niger River. Though rich in minerals ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- The nucleus of an atom is the very dense region at the center of the atom, consisting of particles known as protons and neutrons (collectively ...13 KB (1,903 words) - 06:57, 21 August 2023
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist who studied the properties of materials at extremely ...11 KB (1,588 words) - 08:07, 25 June 2024
- North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and the CIA asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea, a member ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- The Colorado River flows 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado south into Mexico, where it empties into ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Marie Curie (or Maria Skłodowska-Curie, born as Maria Skłodowska; November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist. She was born ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He received the 1944 Nobel ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Scandium (chemical symbol Sc, atomic number 21) is a soft, silvery-white metal. Scandium ore occurs in rare minerals from Scandinavia and elsewhere ...12 KB (1,615 words) - 17:06, 25 January 2023
- Mendelevium (chemical symbol Md (formerly Mv), atomic number 101), also known as unnilunium (symbol Unu), is a synthetic element in the periodic ...6 KB (778 words) - 04:30, 9 November 2022
- Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54 9 years).1997. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- Category:Public number=54 | symbol=Xe | name=xenon | left=iodine | right=cesium | above=Kr | below=Rn | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Carbonatites are unusual igneous rocks that contain carbonate minerals at levels that exceed 20 percent (by volume). Their additional mineral ...7 KB (933 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Nobelium (chemical symbol No, atomic number 102), also known as unnilbium (symbol Unb), is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A radioactive ...7 KB (962 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- Berkelium (chemical symbol Bk, atomic number 97) is a synthetic, radioactive chemical element, classified as an actinide. It was first synthesized ...7 KB (911 words) - 11:01, 28 September 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote and arid interior (and north) of Australia. The term "outback" ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 kilometers (106 mi) east of Darwin. Located within the Alligator Rivers ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- 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
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast. It gained independence ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
