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• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Electricity
  Solar Energy
  Wind Energy
  Energy Technology
   
  

  Power station

  A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. At the centre of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into ... > more
• Ozone Holes
  Chemistry
  Air Quality
  Environmental Issues
  Sports Science
  Inorganic Chemistry
   
  

  Haloalkane

  The haloalkanes (also known as Halogenoalkanes) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting of alkanes, such as methane or ethane, with one or more halogens linked, such as chlorine or fluorine, ... > more
• Solar Energy
  Energy Technology
  Thermodynamics
  Electricity
  Wind Energy
  Energy Policy
   
  

  Geothermal power

  Geothermal power is the use of geothermal heat for electricity generation. It is often referred to as a form of renewable energy, but because the heat at any location can eventually be depleted it ... > more
• Fossil Fuels
  Petroleum
  Energy Policy
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  Fuel Cells
  Alternative Fuels
   
  

  Coal

  Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (strip mining). It is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. Often associated with ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Renewable Energy
  Sports Science
  Petroleum
  Fossil Fuels
   
  

  Methane

  Methane is a significant and plentiful fuel which is the principal component of natural gas. Burning one molecule of methane in the presence of oxygen releases one molecule of CO2 (carbon dioxide) ... > more
• Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Fuel Cells
  Organic Chemistry
  Spintronics
  Nuclear Energy
   
  

  Proton

  The proton is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit and a mass of 938.3 MeV/c2, or about 1836 times the mass of an electron. The proton is observed to be ... > more
• Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Physics
  Materials Science
  Organic Chemistry
  Biochemistry
   

  Chemical bond

  A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons -or electrostatic ... > more
• Inorganic Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Materials Science
  Spintronics
  Sports Science
  Physics
   
  

  Metal

  In chemistry, a metal is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. Metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions surrounded by a cloud of ... > more
• Astrophysics
  Optics
  Physics
  Chemistry
  Sports Science
  Graphene
   
  

  Spectroscopy

  Spectroscopy is the study of spectra, that is, the dependence of physical quantities on frequency. Spectroscopy is often used in physical and analytical chemistry for the identification of ... > more
• Chemistry
  Sports Science
  Organic Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Physics
  Graphene
   
  

  Boron

  Boron is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol B and atomic number 5. A trivalent metalloid element, boron occurs abundantly in the ore ... > more

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