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- Atom (12300 bytes)
3: ! bgcolor=gray | Atom
5: ...n="center" | [[image:Atom.png|align center|Helium atom (not to scale)]]
7: | align="center" | '''Helium atom model (not to scale)'''<br>Showing nucleus with t...
14: | Smallest division of a [[chemical element]]
19: ! bgcolor=gray | Properties
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...across the table. Each element is listed by its [[atomic number]] and [[chemical symbol]].
3: ...lements]] for more details or different perspectives.
6: ...ell]] electrons, which gives them similar properties.
9: ...eral systems as they confusingly used the same names to mean different things.
15: ...(standard)|standard table]] (same as above) provides the basics. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...ames Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here...
7: ...e Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ... waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then imagin...
11: ...e Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was qu... - Feed (1445 bytes)
1: The word '''feed''' has a number of uses:
3: ...oun often refers to food given to or meant for livestock (also called ''"[[fodder]]"'').
10: ...to [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] or [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] feeds used by [[news aggregators]].
11: ...s also an abbreviation for Front End Engineering Design.
12: ...hat affect cutting tool life and metal removal rates. - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ff the coast of north-west [[Europe]]. It is the westernmost state of the [[European Union]], and has ...
14: official_languages = [[Irish language|Irish]], [[English language|En...
18: largest_city = [[Dublin]] |
20: leader_titles = [[President of Ireland|President]]<br>[[Taoiseach]] |
21: leader_names = [[Mary McAleese]]<br>[[Bertie Ahern]] | - Chemistry (12553 bytes)
5: ...oms interact to form [[molecules]] and how molecules interact with each other.
7: == Subdisciplines of chemistry ==
9: ...ically is divided into several major sub-disciplines. There are also several main cross-disciplinary a...
11: ... chemistry'' is the [[analysis]] of material samples to gain an understanding of their [[chemical comp...
15: ...istinction between organic and inorganic disciplines is not absolute and there is much overlap, most i... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...c method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [[phenomenon|phenomena]] and their pre-cursors b...
4: ...considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many plac...
6: ...ledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an exter...
8: ==Theories and sociology of the history of science==
9: {{seemain|Theories and sociology of the history of science}} - Human (48024 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Primates]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''H. sapiens '''''}}
15: ...bdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Subspecies}}
21: ...uperfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]]s, [[orangutan]]s,...
24: ...mmunity]] is that [[human evolution]] occured in response to a need for long distance [[running]]. Hum... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
1: ...er 11 at [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] (artist's impression)]]
3: ...It passed close to Saturn and then it followed an escape trajectory from the [[solar system]].
5: ...s as backup. Pioneer 11's star sensor gain and threshold settings were modified, based on experience g...
7: ...her scientific information was obtained from [[celestial mechanics]] and [[occultation phenomena]].
9: ...eptember 1]], [[1979]], three days before its closest encounter. The [[moon]] [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] i... - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...e naked or unaided [[eye]]. The [[science]] of investigating small objects using such an instrument is...
3: ...f an object placed in the focal plane of the lens(es).
8: ...nton van Leeuwenhoek|Van Leeuwenhoek]]'s microscopes consisted of a single, small, [[convex]] [[lens (...
11: ... and [[spherical aberration]]. In modern microscopes the mirror is replaced by a lamp unit providing s...
21: #[[objective lens]]es - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...sion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. [[August 9]], [[1945]]]]
2: ... every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in [[World War I]] were involve...
4: ...ino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue th...
6: ...ctory]] Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [...
8: ...bombing|bombing of civilians]] to a new degree. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are ... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
4: ...]<br/><small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
58: ! align="left" | [[Oblateness]]
62: | [[1 E16 m?|6.14×10<sup>10</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</su...
65: | 1.338×10<sup>15</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km<sup>3</sup>]...
68: | [[1 E27 kg|1.899×10<sup>27</sup>]] [[kilogram|kg]]<br>(317.8 Earth... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...stronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the...
7: ...near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...t time were thought to date uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed...
10: ...stration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical elemen...
11: ...r influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Ni... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...f the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
7: ... work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist...
14: ...e insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...elopment of the theory of relativity to this slowness, saying that by pondering space and time later t...
18: ...g his late childhood and early adolescence by suggesting and providing books on science and mathematic... - Atom (12300 bytes)
3: ! bgcolor=gray | Atom
5: ...n="center" | [[image:Atom.png|align center|Helium atom (not to scale)]]
7: | align="center" | '''Helium atom model (not to scale)'''<br>Showing nucleus with t...
14: | Smallest division of a [[chemical element]]
19: ! bgcolor=gray | Properties - Democritus (3967 bytes)
3: ...]]. It is virtually impossible to tell which of these ideas were unique to Democritus, and which are a...
5: ...ng. There are some worlds devoid of living creatures or plants or any moisture."
9: ... identified "the void" with "nothing") the void does not exist and cannot be "moved into".
12: ...ention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void."
14: ...ng philosopher." In [[the Divine Comedy]] Dante sees the shade of Heraclitus in Limbo with those of ot... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...ity]]" and "quantity of charge." There are two types of electricity or charge: we call one kind of ele...
3: ...C". The symbol ''Q'' is used in equations to represent the [[quantity of electricity]] or charge. Fo...
6: ...who found that rubbing [[fur]] on various substances, such as [[amber]], would cause a particular [[at...
8: ...d to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
10: ...apacitor]] for electrical energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Leiden University]] by [[Piete... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...h;30[[MHz]]) [[radio propagation]] to distant places on the Earth.
6: ...red by a nearby positive [[ion]]. The number of these free electrons is sufficient to affect [[radio p...
8: ...o processes determines the degree of ionization present at any given time.
10: ...rged particles into the [[solar wind]] which reaches the Earth and interacts with its [[geomagnetic]] ...
14: ...ctivity. With an active sun electron density values are a factor of 10 higher.]] - Buddhist philosophy (14386 bytes)
8: ...e, and epistemological debates over the proper modes of evidence have always been lively in Buddhism.
10: ...f or others is fully consistent with Buddhist values and ethics.
14: ...ept a teaching only if one's own experience verifies it.
16: ...tc.), to Buddhism's thoroughly developed hierarchies of clergy (not usually characteristic of a "philo...
20: ...s follows in the book 'A Living Buddhism for the West': - Origami (9154 bytes)
3: ...all kind of paper folding, even those of non-Japanese origin.
5: ...mes cutting the paper during the creation of the design ([[Kirigami]]) or starting with a [[rectangle|...
9: ...92]]-[[1573]]). That of [[Europe]]an origami, represented by a little bird (Pajarita in [[Spanish lang...
11: ...aterials other than just paper and foil. The Japanese do not see origami as an art form, but rather as...
13: ...aper that were folded into spirals and curved shapes, have influenced modern origami artists like [[Ku...
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