Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia - 1950
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1950 - Events. January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E-25 Kg: Encyclopedia - 1 E-25 Kg
To help compare different orders of magnitude we list here masses between 60.22 u and 602.2 u (10-25 kg and 10-24 kg, or 100 yoctograms a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dubnium: Encyclopedia - Dubnium
Dubnium (formerly also called Eka-Tantalum, Hahnium and Unnilpentium) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Db ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curium: Encyclopedia - Curium
Curium is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cm and atomic number 96. A radioactive metallic transuranic eleme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sealed Source Radiotherapy: Encyclopedia - Sealed Source Radiotherapy
Sealed source radiotherapy or brachytherapy or endocurietherapy is the application of radiation from close range and is used for techniqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E10 S: Encyclopedia - 1 E10 S
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1010 seconds and 1011 seconds (320 years and 3200 ye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E6 S: Encyclopedia - 1 E6 S
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 106 seconds (a megasecond) and 107 seconds (11.6 day...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E7 S: Encyclopedia - 1 E7 S
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 116 days and 1157 days or 3.2 years (107 seconds and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E8 S: Encyclopedia - 1 E8 S
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 3.2 years and 32 years (108 seconds and 109 seconds)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia - Supernova
Supernovae refer to several types of stellar explosions that produce extremely bright objects made of plasma that decline to invisibility...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova - Classification
As part of the attempt to understand supernova explosions, astronomers have classified them according to the lines of different chemical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova Nucleosynthesis - Supernovae
A supernova is a massive explosion of a star that occurs under two possible scenarios.The first is that a white dwarf star undergoes a nu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 98 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 98 Number - In Astronomy
The Messier object M98, a magnitude 11.0 spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. The New General Catalogue object NGC 98, a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Elements Song: Encyclopedia Ii - The Elements Song - Lyrics
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, german...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transuranium Element: Encyclopedia Ii - Transuranium Element - List Of The Transuranic Elements:
93 neptunium Np 94 plutonium Pu 95 americium Am 96 curium Cm 97 berkelium Bk 98 californium Cf 99 einsteinium Es 100 fermium Fm 101 mende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lawrencium: Encyclopedia Ii - Lawrencium - Notable Characteristics
The appearance of this element is unknown, however it is most likely silvery-white or gray and metallic. If sufficient amounts of lawrenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curium: Encyclopedia Ii - Curium - Notable Characteristics
The isotope curium-248 has been synthesized only in milligram quantities, but curium-242 and curium-244 are made in multigram amounts, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Early Life
Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, grew up in South Gate, California (a suburb next to Watts in Los Angeles), ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Events
1950 - January. January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Career
In 1939 he became an instructor in chemistry at UC Berkeley, was promoted to professor in 1945, and served as chancellor from 1958 to 196...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Marriage
In 1942, Seaborg married Helen Griggs, the secretary of Ernest Lawrence. Under wartime pressure, Seaborg had moved to Chicago, Illinois. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova - Possible Threats To Earth
Several prominent stars within a few hundred light years from the Sun are candidates for becoming supernovae in a relatively short time, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova - Supernova Hunting
Supernova searches fall into two regimes: high redshift and low redshift, with the boundary falling somewhere around a redshift of z = 0....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Births
1950 - January. January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician January 16 - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Deaths
1950 - January. January 21 - George Orwell, English author (b. 1903) 1950 - February. February 6 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Career
In 1939 he became an instructor in chemistry at UC Berkeley, was promoted to professor in 1945, and served as chancellor from 1958 to 196...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Marriage
Seaborg got married in 1942, to Helen Griggs, the secretary of Ernest Lawrence. Under wartime pressure, Seaborg had moved to Chicago, Ill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - A Graduate Student
As a graduate student in the 1930s doing wet chemistry research for his advisor Gilbert Newton Lewis, Seaborg devoured the text Applied R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova - Notable Supernovae
There have been several supernovae that have been observed throughout history. The dates for these supernovae listed were the time when t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glenn T. Seaborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Glenn T. Seaborg - Quote
National Commission on Education report in 1983, Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman. Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernova: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernova - Possible Threats To Earth
Several prominent stars within a few hundred light years from the Sun are candidates for becoming supernovas in a relatively short time, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transuranium Element: Encyclopedia Ii - Transuranium Element - Super Heavy Atoms
Super-heavy atoms are the transactinide elements beginning with rutherfordium (atomic number 104). They have all been made artificially a...   » Read the article