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D4estMinerals. Metamorphic minerals like sillimanite, kyanite, staurolite, andalusite, and garnet, and non-metamorphic minerals like...
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a big believer in the unconscious mind ruling and affecting our actions. Freud was awarded a...
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No, according to Wikipedia's history of lights on vehicles, the third rear brake light was named a Liddy Light, after Elizabeth...
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The actual discovery date of Mercury, and the discoverer, are not known since the discovery predates the earliest known mention...
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No one. A bladder is a sac, and gall is the bile that is in the sac.
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic...
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It means that energy can change between different forms. Take for example a car sitting outside during warm and sunny day. The...
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Wildlife and humans share a very deep chemistry. Wildfires in the first place, cause a lot of damage i.e. they destroy the soil...
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Hand sewing is an art form that is over 20,000 years old. The first sewing needles were made of bones or animal horns and the...
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Because in an open system matter is leaving and entering, which would change the mass, effecting your results.
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For many centuries water mills were used to grind corn, but obviously not to produce electricity. That has been done since about...
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Rutherfordium was first time obtained by Gheorghi Nikolaevici Flerov, Iuri Ţolakovici Ohanessian, Iuri V. Lobanov, V. I....
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In order of birth; Harold, (Floyd), Fayette, and Gordon.
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Natural agents of physical weathering: Rain, sand (driven by the wind), sunlight, the freeze/thaw cycle. Man-made agents of...
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fungi is important because it can help to decompose any animal or dead things.
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Rotation and tilt affect the amount of solar energy the earth receives because when the earth is tilted and or rotating, one...
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AnswerEugen Goldstein was a German physist and was one of the first people to investigate x-rays.Goldstein also discovered...
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Science is knowing, technology is doing. Answer Science can broadly be defined as the study of "things" such as: Chemistry,...
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Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who was born in 1642/3 (see related question for details) in Lincolnshire, UK. He...
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Dmitri Shostakovich died on August 9, 1975 at the age of 68.
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The Imperial system of measurement came from England. At one time, England dominated most of he world with their powerful navy...
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Roentgen was born in Lennep which is now called Lennep-Remscheid and lived there until he was three. His family them moved to...
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Astronomers study the sky, space, solar system, and all of the objects in it. Galileo is considered to be the Father of Modern...
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On October 20, 1983, the meter was officially redefined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of...
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The British experimental physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932. Of the three fundamental particles that make up...
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Water is a thin fluid. Shampoo is a thick fluid.
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There is little difference between controlled and modified atmospheres. They both refer to atmospheres where the proportions of...
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The North Pole sits on a floating ice sheet which is called the Arctic ice sheet. There is no land underneath it, but the sea...
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Pascal was most famous for Pascal's triangle. He also invented the 1st mechanical calculator. The Pascal's Triangle is a...
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The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle that was identified and assigned the negative charge in 1897 by Sir John Joseph...
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Newton did not invent the reflecting telescope. The first reflecting telescope is credited to Niccolò Zucchi in 1616. In 1668,...
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no way to say as it was known before earliest civilization.
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Two-Part Naming System The scientific naming system that is used world-wide today was first devised by Swedish naturalist...
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Aerodynamics: the study of the motion of gas on objects and the forces created Anatomy: the study of the structure and...
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The unit of measurement used depends on what is being measured. For example, mass can be measured in pounds, ounces, grams;...
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Bio diesel is diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources, re-claimed oils such as cooking oils from restaurants, vegetable...
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Most people are too busy with their own little lives to realize what is going on in the environment and eco system and it's...
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Relativity is either of two theories of physics developed by the German-born American physicist Albert Einstein. Those theories...
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Hills, Rivers, Beaches, Bays
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The action of penicillin was first observed by Sir Alexander Flemming in 1928. It was developed as a practical antibiotic during...
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AnswerTypically the main branches of science are thought of as Physics (the scientific study of energy) and Chemistry (the...
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It is the practice of supplying unordered items seeking payment for them. This act is totally prohibited by law.
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An alchemist is a person who practices alchemy. Alchemist may also refer to: Alchemist (band), an Australian progressive metal...
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In 1817, the element lithium (atomic number 3) was discovered in the mineral petalite (LiAl(Si2O5)2) by Johann August Arfvedson,...
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The 19th century British scientist and inventor Michael Faraday discovered that compressing and liquefying a certain gas could...
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It is hard to give credit to one single person. Here are some of the important people and their discoveries that led up to this...
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Sociology can be considered a science as it involve systematic methods of empirical research, analysis of data and the assessment...
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The alchemist was a chemist who worked in a laboratory. A philosopher is a writer.
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no mahawar is no low caste it's middle we can not say low or high, Their is two types of Mahawar 1 is Mahawar Vaishya scattered...
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First mobile phone call (1700) : 'Hi Joel - guess where I'm calling from?Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the...
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The field of Physics, Sir William Gilbert is known for his work with magnetic fields. He observed that 1) Magnetic field lines...
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He was a German physicist and one of the key developers of quantum theory in the 1920s, most famous for the 'Heisenberg...
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Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 - August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the...
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It has an asset $5 million or more. it is owned and operated by single person, two business partners, or a corporation. It hires...
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My name is Haydon Greenlees and I am a lion. King of the jungle!!!!! Suck on that for breakfast!!!!!
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In the Geiger-Marsden gold foil experiment, a stream of alpha particles were fired at a sheet of gold foil, one atom thick. This...
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Nicolas Copernicus was an astronomer who first gave the theory (which is now proven) that all planets revolve around the sun,...
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The Hubble Space Telescope cost about $1.5 billion to build and place into orbit. From its first pictures, imaging teams realized...
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yes. and feces, and gizzard stone piles, and petroleum, and leaf/feather impressions, etc. All fossils.
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The 'discovery' of Oxygen is, still, one of the most 'heatedly' debated questions of the Golden Age of Natural Philosophy. The...
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A Greek philosopher by the name of Democritus came up with the general idea and the name of atoms (atomos literally means "no...
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Answerhe was a very important because he found the laws of motion and he wrote lots of books
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A divergent boundary is an area where 2 plates are moving apart. This is caused by tensional forces. The result is upwelling...
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It was Edmund Becquerel who discovered solar energy way back in 1838, but solar energy history really began in 1860
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I would ask something like how did it have an impact on the world around them. Sort of like how America changed after the 9/11...
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physical and biological changes that have occured in the past.
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alveloi,lungs,nose,epiglottis,pharynx,larynx,bronchus,trachea,esophagus
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A chemical change is taking place.
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It was Robert Hooke who first named the cell. He observed the cells in the cork under his own primitive microscope. He called...
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Mainly for Recon, as were planes, although towards the middle and end of the war they began mounting weapons on planes and the...
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Then there is nothing to contain the organelles and cytoplasm within the cell. Without the membrane the cell can't survive.
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According to The Great Scientists(164-169) Faraday had the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic but, while apprenticed to...
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AnswerEdward Jenner in 1796. For more information, see the related link.
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Robert Millikan measured the charge on an electron. To do this, he built a spray to spray oil droplets. As the droplets came out...
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He lined them up according to their properties and other characteristics First, John Newlands looked at the atomic masses of...
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The "W" after the first set of numbers stands for winter. The lower the number, the lower the actual air temperature can be and...
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Do you mean 'reached the concept of absolute zero'? I ask this because I was always told that you cannot reach absolute zero,...
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The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by...
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He didn't change the world. He DID discover that the orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses rather than circles, and...
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Andreas Vesalius' book on anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Seven Books on the Fabric of the Human Body) was...
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Dmitri Mendeleev.
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magnesium bromide
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The first pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur (whom its named after) and Claude Bernard on April 20, 1862. It was...
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