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Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their ... > more -
Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called ... > more -
Hydrogen-like atom
Hydrogen-like atoms (or hydrogenic atoms) are atoms with one single electron. Like the hydrogen atom, hydrogen-like atoms are one of the few quantum mechanical problems which can be exactly ... > more -
Polyethylene
Polyethylene, (IUPAC name polyethene), is a thermoplastic commodity heavily used in consumer products (over 60 million tons are produced worldwide every year). It is a polymer consisting of long ... > more -
Solubility
Solubility is a chemical property referring to the ability for a given substance, the solute, to dissolve in a solvent. It is measured in terms of the maximum amount of solute dissolved in a solvent ... > more -
Transition metal
The term transition metal (sometimes also called a transition element) commonly refers to any element in the d-block of the periodic table, including zinc, cadmium and ... > 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
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