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Transportation
Transportation, the movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means…
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power, electricity generated by power plants that derive their heat from fission in a nuclear reactor. Except…
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Principles of Electron Tubes
An electron tube has two or more electrodes separated either by vacuum (in a vacuum…
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Anode
Anode, the terminal or electrode from which electrons leave a system. In a battery or other source of direct current the…
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Amalgam
Amalgam, alloy of mercury and one or more other metals. Amalgams are crystalline in structure, except for those with…
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Chemical properties
The chemical properties of clusters are a combination of the properties of bulk and molecular…
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Materials science
Materials science, the study of the properties of solid materials and how those properties are determined by…
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The mechanical equivalence of work and energy
Two of the architects of modern thermodynamics were William Thompson (better known as Lord Kelvin)…
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Endothermic reactions
We all sweat at some time or other, e.g. after running hard, living We need…
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Energy and the first law of thermodynamics
Eating ice cream soon causes the mouth to get cold, possibly to Ice cream melts…