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Tunguska event
The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred at 60 degrees 55'N 101degrees 57'E, near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River, in what is now Evenk Autonomous Okrug, at 7:17 AM on June 30, ... > more -
Energy and the Environment
Renewable Energy
Environmental Science
Fuel Cells
Sustainability
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Liquid nitrogen economy
A liquid nitrogen economy is a hypothetical proposal for a future economy in which the primary form of energy storage and transport is liquid nitrogen. It is proposed as an alternative to liquid ... > more -
Fujita scale
The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita-Pearson scale, rates a tornado's intensity by the damage it inflicts on human-built structures and sometimes on ... > more -
Water turbine
A water turbine is a rotary engine that takes energy from moving water. Water turbines were developed in the nineteenth century and were widely used for industrial power prior to electrical grids. ... > more -
Inversion (meteorology)
A temperature inversion is a meteorological phenomenon in which air temperature increases with height for some distance above the ground, as opposed to the normal decrease in temperature with height. ... > more -
Coriolis effect
The Coriolis effect caused by the rotation of the Earth is responsible for the precession of a Foucault pendulum and for the direction of rotation of cyclones. In general, the effect deflects objects ... > more -
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol P and atomic number 15. Phosphorus is commonly found in inorganic phosphate rocks and in all living cells. The most ... > more -
Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is ... > more -
Automobile emissions control
Automobile emissions control covers all the technologies that are employed to reduce the air pollution-causing emissions produced by ... > more
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