Tin – a chemical element
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. It is a soft, silvery-white metal with a bluish tinge, known to…
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Stishovite – a dense tetragonal form of silicon dioxide
Stishovite is an extremely hard, dense tetragonal form (polymorph) of silicon dioxide. It is an extremely rare mineral forming only from the impact of a…
Solvation in Chemistry
Solvation is the process by which solvent molecules surround and interact with solute ions or molecules. It means the process of dissolving or forming a…
Tiny Spider Engineers Use Silk Pulley Systems to Lift Prey 50 Times Their Weight
Depending on your persuasion, images of spiders will affect or frighten the prey in a relatively comparative way in terms of size (hunters vs. potential…
Researchers Report the First Detailed Chemical Measurement of Einsteinium
A team of researchers has still provided our best insights into the least studied angles of the periodic table. As published in the journal Nature,…
Project Hopes To Explain Why Marsupials Are Better For the Planet than Other Herbivores
Large amounts of methane in cattle and sheep dung (and occasionally cattle) represent one of the biggest threats to climate stability. Despite living on a…
Experts Warn a Quarter of Carnivorous Plants Are At Risk of Extinction
When you think of plants, the word “carnivore” does not immediately come to mind, but there are some bloody specimens among the bizarre and wonderful…
Power behind Mysterious Gamma-Ray Source Revealed Thanks To Thousands of Volunteers
For years gamma-ray source PSR J2039−5617 has been a cosmic mystery. Astronomers had an ink on what might be behind it but were struggling to…
Difference between Boiling and Evaporation
Vaporization is a process of phase transition in which a substance, changes its state from liquid to vapor. It can take place in two ways,…
Menorca Island, Spain
Menorca (Catalan: məˈnɔɾkə, Spanish: meˈnoɾka) or Minorca (English: /mɪˈnɔːrkə/ min-OR-kə; from Latin: Insula Minor, lit. ‘smaller island’, later Minorica), an island of the Balearic Islands…
Agonist – a type of chemical
An agonist is a type of chemical known as a ligand. It binds to a receptor. It is a compound that can bind to and…
Tinning – a process of thinly coating sheets of wrought iron
Tinning is a crystalline, silvery metallic element obtained chiefly from cassiterite and having two notable allotropic forms. It is the process of thinly coating sheets…
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