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• Wildfires
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  Firestorm

  A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. A firestorm is created as a result of the "chimney effect" as the heat of the original ... > more
• Chemistry
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  Nature of Water
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  Graphene
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  Argon

  Argon is a chemical element in the periodic table. It has the symbol Ar and atomic number 18. The third noble gas, in group 18, argon makes up about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere, making it the most ... > more
• Acoustics
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  Acoustics

  Acoustics is the branch of physics concerned with the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician. The ... > more
• Graphene
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  Carbon

  Carbon is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol C and atomic number 6. Carbon occurs in all organic life and is the basis of organic chemistry. This nonmetal also has the ... > more
• Nature of Water
  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Friction

  Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency of such motion of two surfaces in contact. It is also the contact of two objects creating static electricity. It is not, however, a ... > more
• Nature of Water
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  Thermodynamics
  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Volume

  Volume, also called capacity, is a quantification of how much space an object occupies. The international unit for volume is the cubic ... > more
• Detectors
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  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Nature of Water
   
  

  Radon

  Radon is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Rn and atomic number 86. A radioactive noble gas that is formed by the disintegration of radium, radon is one of the heaviest ... > more
• Energy Technology
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  Potential energy

  Potential energy is stored energy. Potential energy is the energy that exists by virtue of the relative positions (configurations) of the objects within a physical system. This form of energy has the ... > more
• Graphene
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  Organic Chemistry
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  Carbon nanotube

  Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an allotrope of carbon. They take the form of cylindrical carbon molecules and have novel properties that make them potentially useful in a wide variety of applications in ... > more
• Optics
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  Optics

  Optics is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter. The field of optics usually describes the behavior of visible, infrared and ... > more
• Solar Energy
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  Biomass

  Biomass is organic non-fossil material, collectively. In other words, 'biomass' describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by ... > more
• Nature of Water
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  Shock wave

  In a supersonic flow the compression of a nonreacting gas can be most simply modelled as an isentropic or Prandtl-Meyer compression, or as a shock wave. When an object (or disturbance) moves faster ... > more

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