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“The Knowledge Library”
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“The Knowledge Library”
Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
Knowledge for All, without Barriers…
Frozen water in the form of an icicle. Temperature is a key aspect of everyday human life; doctors use it to determine the health conditions of their patients, meteorologists use it to forecast the weather conditions, and nuclear physics make …
There are over 4,000 meters in an acre. An acre is defined as a unit of the land measurement that gives an area commonly used in the US customary and the imperial systems. An acre of land is further described …
Uranus. Uranus is located at a distance of about 2.88 billion km or 19.2 AU from the Sun. Since the planet follows an elliptical orbit to complete its revolution around the Sun, the above figure only represents the average distance …
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. The freezing point can be defined as the temperature at which a liquid transforms into a solid at a given pressure. The freezing point is usually defined after a liquid is subjected to low …
Britain was originally a name for an Island which was inhabited by Celts. The Celts inhabited what is now England, Wales, and part of Scotland until the Roman occupation. England emerged as a kingdom after the Roman Occupation and Britain …
Aluminium is a metal found in the second row and Group 13 on the periodic table. It is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon to be found in the crust of the earth. Aluminium occurs naturally in …
Water boils are 100 degrees Celcius (212 Fahrenheit). The temperature at which substance change from liquid to the gaseous state is known as the boiling point. To be more specific, the boiling point of a substance is the temperature at …
Pure sugar is an example of a pure substance. A pure substance refers to an element or a compound that has no component of another compound or element. Pure substances are made of only one type of atom or molecule. …
The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting event which is held once every four years. Chamonix, France hosted the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924. The games were held on a four-year interval until 1936, and then interrupted by …
The diffusion process results in a uniform distribution of particles. Diffusion is the process in which atoms or molecules move from a region of high concentration to an area of low concentration. In most cases, diffusion occurs in gases and …
Example of hydrogen isotopes with different numbers of neutrons. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have an equal number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. Their atomic numbers are the same, but their mass numbers are different. …
The tongue is a muscle-based organ that sits against the floor of the mouth and goes back into the pharynx. It’s attached to the jaw, the hyoid bone in the neck, and the skull, extending back further than what’s visible inside …
In India, the rivers are broadly classified as Himalayan Rivers and Peninsular Rivers. Himalayan rivers are the watercourses that arise from Himalayan ranges and are perennial in nature. On the contrary, Peninsular rivers are the ones that originate from the Western Ghats and are …
1. International Space Station: International Space Mission The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit. The ISS program is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), …
About Plastics The word, plastic, was derived from the word ‘Plastikos’ meaning ‘to mould’ in Greek. Fossil fuels have compounds containing hydrogen and carbon (hydrocarbon) which act as building blocks for long polymer molecules. These building blocks are known as monomers, they link together to …
India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization) The name ‘India’ is derived from …
A List of Nobel Laureates From India is Given Below: Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) : in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems. C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930) : For his work on …
Father of Different Fields Names Father of Geography Eratosthenes Father of Economics Adam Smith Father of Ayurveda Charaka Father of Biology Aristotle Father of Physics Albert Einstein Father of Statistics Ronald Fisher Father of Zoology Aristotle Father of History Herodotus …