Encyclopedia - Carbon Disulfide: Encyclopedia - Carbon Disulfide
Carbon disulfide (CS2) is a colorless liquid with a pleasant odor that is like the smell of chloroform. It has a melting point of -111oC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - -kinesis: Encyclopedia - -kinesis
-kinesis, from Greek "kinesis", movement, motion, is a suffix that denotes movement. It is frequently used to indicate hypothetical parap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ammonia: Encyclopedia - Ammonia
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. At standard temperature and pressure ammonia is a gas. It is toxic a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intravenous Therapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Intravenous Therapy - Intravenous Access Devices
Intravenous therapy - Needle and syringe. The simplest form of intravenous access is a syringe with an attached hollow needle. The need...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kerosene: Encyclopedia Ii - Kerosene - Uses
At one time it was widely used in kerosene lamps but it is now mainly used in aviation fuel for jet engines (more technically Avtur, Jet-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jupiter: Encyclopedia Ii - Jupiter - Overview
Jupiter has been known since ancient times and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered the four...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waste: Encyclopedia Ii - Waste - Sources Of Waste
Waste produced in the wild is reintegrated through natural recycling processes, such as dry leaves in a forest decomposing into soil. Out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acetic Acid: Encyclopedia Ii - Acetic Acid - Production
Acetic acid is produced both synthetically and by bacterial fermentation. Today, the biological route accounts for only about 10% of worl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ice: Encyclopedia - Ice
Ice is frozen water (one of its three phases of matter), and thereby a transparent, crystal, soft and fragile solid. The phase transition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lake: Encyclopedia - Lake
A Lake is a body of water surrounded by land. The majority of lakes are fresh water, and most lie in the northern hemisphere at higher la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound: Encyclopedia - Sound
Sound is vibration, as perceived by the sense of hearing. We usually hear vibrations that travel through air, but sound can also travel t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lava: Encyclopedia - Lava
Lava is molten rock that a volcano expels during an eruption. Lava, when first exuded from a volcanic vent, is a liquid at very high temp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glass: Encyclopedia - Glass
The materials definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jupiter: Encyclopedia - Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest within our solar system. Some have described the solar system as consisti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ink: Encyclopedia - Ink
An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. Common perceptions co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brewing: Encyclopedia - Brewing
Brewing is the production of alcoholic beverages and alcohol fuel through fermentation. This is the method used in beer production, altho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burette: Encyclopedia - Burette
A burette (also buret) is a vertical cylindrical piece of laboratory glassware with a volumetric graduation on its full length and a prec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burn Injury: Encyclopedia - Burn Injury
In medicine, a burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation (an example of the latter is sun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capillary Action: Encyclopedia - Capillary Action
Capillary action or capillarity (also known as capillary motion) is the ability of a narrow tube to draw a liquid upwards against the for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shuttle Buran: Encyclopedia - Shuttle Buran
American Enterprise (test) Pathfinder (mockup) Columbia (destroyed 2003) Challenger (destroyed 1986) Discovery (active) Atlantis (activ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brownian Motion: Encyclopedia - Brownian Motion
The term Brownian motion (in honor of the botanist Robert Brown) refers to either The physical phenomenon that minute particles immersed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Food: Encyclopedia - Food
Food is any substance that can be consumed, including liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Petroleum: Encyclopedia - Petroleum
Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boron Trifluoride: Encyclopedia - Boron Trifluoride
Boron trifluoride (BF3, trifluoroborane) is a pungent colourless toxic gas. In moist air it forms white fumes. Boron trifluoride can be h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eucalyptol: Encyclopedia - Eucalyptol
Eucalyptol is a natural organic compound which is a colorless liquid. It is a cyclic ether and a monoterpene. Eucalyptol is also known by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gasoline: Encyclopedia - Gasoline
Gasoline is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. Gasolin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adequately Wet: Encyclopedia - Adequately Wet
The phrase "adequately wet" is an environmental term referring to asbestos containing material that is sufficiently mixed or penetrated w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bleve: Encyclopedia - Bleve
BLEVE, pronounced blevy, is an acronym for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion. This is a type of explosion that can occur when a v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Büchner Funnel: Encyclopedia - Büchner Funnel
Büchner funnel is a piece of laboratory equipment used in filtration. It is traditionally made of porcelain, but these days plastic funn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aurora Aircraft: Encyclopedia - Aurora Aircraft
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Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Drag: Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Drag
Atmospheric drag is a form of drag, which is the force that opposes an object moving through a liquid or gas. In astrodynamics depending ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bain-marie: Encyclopedia - Bain-marie
Bain-marie or Mary's bath is a method utilised in industry (phamaceutical, cosmetics, conserves, etc.), chemical laboratories and in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barotrauma: Encyclopedia - Barotrauma
Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between an air space inside or beside the body and the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boiling: Encyclopedia - Boiling
Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to a temperature such that its vapor pressu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mars Trilogy: Encyclopedia - Mars Trilogy
The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bird Feeder: Encyclopedia - Bird Feeder
A birdfeeder, bird feeder, or bird table is a device placed out-of-doors to supply food to birds. The success of a birdfeeder in attract...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buoyancy: Encyclopedia - Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy is an upward force on an object immersed in a fluid (i.e. a liquid or a gas), enabling it to float or at least to ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aramid: Encyclopedia - Aramid
Aramid fiber (1961) is a fire-resistant and strong synthetic fiber. It is used in aerospace and military applications, for "bullet-proof"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acetic Acid: Encyclopedia - Acetic Acid
Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accretion Science: Encyclopedia - Accretion Science
Accretion is increase in size by gradual addition of smaller parts. This term is used in the following fields: In atmospheric science fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlas Experiment: Encyclopedia - Atlas Experiment
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the five particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, and LHCb) being constructed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vortex: Encyclopedia - Vortex
A vortex is a spinning turbulent flow (or any spiral whirling motion) with closed streamlines. The shape of media or mass rotating rapidl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acetonitrile: Encyclopedia - Acetonitrile
Acetonitrile is an organic molecule, often used as a solvent, with the chemical formula of CH3CN. Also known as methyl cyanide, it is the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adsorption: Encyclopedia - Adsorption
In chemistry, adsorption of a substance or adsorbate is its concentration on a particular surface of adsorbent. The result is the formati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anisole: Encyclopedia - Anisole
Anisole, also known as methoxybenzene, is a clear, colorless liquid with a pleasant smell similar to that of anise seed. Anisole is used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allotropy: Encyclopedia - Allotropy
Allotropy (Gr. allos, other, and tropos, manner), a name applied by Jöns Jakob Berzelius to the property possessed by certain substances...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Compressor: Encyclopedia - Gas Compressor
A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally incre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vinegar: Encyclopedia - Vinegar
Vinegar (from Old French vinaigre, meaning "sour wine") is a sour-tasting liquid made from the oxidation of ethanol in wine, cider, beer,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vapor Pressure: Encyclopedia - Vapor Pressure
The vapor pressure is the pressure (if the vapor is mixed with other gases, the partial pressure) of a vapor (this vapour being formed fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tar: Encyclopedia - Tar
Tar is a viscous black liquid derived from the destructive distillation of organic matter. Most tar is produced from coal as a byproduct ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap: Encyclopedia - Soap
Soap is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or minor cleaning. It usually comes in solid moulded form, termed bars. In somew...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waste: Encyclopedia - Waste
Waste is unwanted or undesired material. Waste can exist in any phase of matter (solid, liquid, or gas). When released in the latter two ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozone: Encyclopedia - Ozone
Ozone (O3) is an allotrope of oxygen, the molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms instead of the more stable diatomic O2. Ozone is a pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tun: Encyclopedia - Tun
Tun can be: An old British measurement of liquid. A large cask for liquids, especially wine. A measure of liquid capacity, particularl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wake: Encyclopedia - Wake
A wake is the region of turbulence immediately to the rear of a solid body caused by the flow of air or water around the body. In fluid d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winter Storm: Encyclopedia - Winter Storm
A winter storm is a storm in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Element: Encyclopedia - Classical Element
Western Chinese Wood (木) | Fire (火) | Earth (土) | Metal (金) | Water (水) Hinduism The Panchamahabhuta ("five great elements") P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wet: Encyclopedia - Wet
Wet could refer to: The condition of being liquid. Western European Time (WET). The wets, moderate members of the British Conservative P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mist: Encyclopedia - Mist
Mist is a phenomenon of a liquid in small droplets floating through air. It can occur naturally as part of natural weather or volcanic ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Impurity: Encyclopedia - Impurity
Impurities are substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid, which differ from the chemical composition of the material o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Broth: Encyclopedia - Broth
Broth is a liquid in which meat, fish, cereal grains, or vegetables have been simmered and strained out. Broth is used as a basis for oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alloy: Encyclopedia - Alloy
An alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, which has a combination of at least one metal, and wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Absorption Chemistry: Encyclopedia - Absorption Chemistry
Absorption, in chemistry, is a physical or chemical phenomenon or a process in which atoms, molecules, or ions enter some bulk phase - ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volumetric Flask: Encyclopedia - Volumetric Flask
A volumetric flask (vol flask for short) is a piece of laboratory glassware used to measure a very precise and accurate amount of a liqui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash: Encyclopedia - Cash
Cash usually refers to money in the form of currency, such as bills or coins. Cash - Etymology. The word comes from kachu in the Indian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemistry: Encyclopedia - Chemistry
Chemistry (derived from the Arabic word kimia, alchemy, where al is Arabic for the) is the science of matter that deals with the composit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hail: Encyclopedia - Hail
Hail is a type of graupel, a form of precipitation, composed of spears or irregular lumps of ice. It occurs when supercooled water drople...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas: Encyclopedia - Gas
A gas is one of the four main phases of matter (after solid and liquid, and followed by plasma), that subsequently appear as a solid mate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frost: Encyclopedia - Frost
Frost, like snow, is the result of deposition of water vapor in saturated air. If solid surfaces in contact with the air are chilled belo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wind Chill: Encyclopedia - Wind Chill
Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin due to the combination of air temperature and wind speed. Except at higher te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cloud Condensation Nuclei: Encyclopedia - Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Cloud condensation nuclei or CCNs are small particles (typically 0.00002 mm, or 1/100 th the size of a cloud droplet [1]) about which clo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Evaporation: Encyclopedia - Evaporation
Evaporation is the process whereby atoms or molecules in a liquid state (or solid state if the substance sublimes) gain sufficient energy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vapor: Encyclopedia - Vapor
Vapor (US English) or vapour (British English) is the gaseous state of matter. Although vapor and gas are frequently used interchangeably...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boiling Point: Encyclopedia - Boiling Point
The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can change its state from a liquid to a gas throughout the bulk of the li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Water Molecule: Encyclopedia - Water Molecule
Water has the chemical formula H2O, meaning that one molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. It is in dy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critical Point Chemistry: Encyclopedia - Critical Point Chemistry
In chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions (temperature, pressur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critical Temperature: Encyclopedia - Critical Temperature
The critical temperature, Tc, of a material is the temperature above which distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. As the critical t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uv/vis Spectroscopy: Encyclopedia - Uv/vis Spectroscopy
Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy or Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometry (UV/ VIS) involves the spectroscopy of photons (spectropho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyanic Acid: Encyclopedia - Cyanic Acid
Cyanic acid is a colourless poisonous liquid with a boiling point of 23.5°C and a melting point of -81°C. At 0°C cyanic acid is conver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Water Cycle: Encyclopedia - Water Cycle
The water cycle—technically known as the hydrologic cycle—is the circulation of water within the earth's hydrosphere, involving chang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waterworld: Encyclopedia - Waterworld
Waterworld was a 1995 film that was co-produced by Kevin Costner and directed by Kevin Reynolds. Problems encountered during filming mass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Changeling Star Trek: Encyclopedia - Changeling Star Trek
Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe. They are called Changelings because of their ability to shape-shift. The Chang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chromatography: Encyclopedia - Chromatography
Chromatography is a family of analytical chemistry techniques for the separation of mixtures. It involves passing the sample, a mixture w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wet Electrons: Encyclopedia - Wet Electrons
Hydrogen atoms on water or hydroxide (OH) can be involved in hydrogen bonds or be dangling. Wet electrons are primarily stabilized by by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Condensation: Encyclopedia - Condensation
Condensation is the change in phase of a substance to a denser phase, such as gas (or vapor) to a liquid. Condensation commonly occurs wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carbon Tetrachloride: Encyclopedia - Carbon Tetrachloride
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), also known as tetrachloromethane, is a synthetic chemical compound formerly widely used in fire extinguisher...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convection Cell: Encyclopedia - Convection Cell
A convection cell is a phenomenon of fluid dynamics which occurs in situations where there are temperature differences within a body of l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weed Control: Encyclopedia - Weed Control
Weed control, a botanical component of pest control, stops weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to dom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capillary Electrophoresis: Encyclopedia - Capillary Electrophoresis
Capillary electrophoresis (CE) can be used to separate ionic species by their charge and frictional forces. In traditional electrophoresi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plasma Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Plasma Physics - Characteristics
The term plasma is generally reserved for a system of charged particles large enough to behave as one. Even a partially ionized gas in wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Din Standards: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Din Standards - Din 10000 To Din 19999
List of DIN standards - DIN 10000 to DIN 10999. DIN 10289: Methods for corrosion testing of metallic and other inorganic coatings on m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liquid Crystal: Encyclopedia Ii - Liquid Crystal - Liquid Crystal Phases
The various LC phases (called mesophases) can be characterized by the type of ordering that is present. One can distinguish positional or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liquid Breathing: Encyclopedia Ii - Liquid Breathing - Medical Uses
The immediate use of liquid breathing is likely to be in treating premature babies, and adults with severe lung damage from causes such a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metar: Encyclopedia Ii - Metar - United States/canada Metar Code
This METAR example is from Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton, New Jersey, and was taken on December 5, 2003 at 18:53 UTC. METAR KTTN 05...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Margarine: Encyclopedia Ii - Margarine - History
Margarine has a long and sometimes confusing history. Its name originates with the discovery of "margaric acid" by Michel Eugène Chevreu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Spectrometry: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Spectrometry - Instrumentation
Mass spectrometry - Ion source. The ion source is the part of the mass spectrometer that ionizes the material under analysis (the analy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liquefied Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Liquefied Natural Gas - Basic Facts On Lng
LNG offers an energy density comparable to petrol and diesel fuels and produces less pollution, but its relatively high cost of productio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laundry Detergent: Encyclopedia Ii - Laundry Detergent - Use Of Laundry Detergent
Because it is consumed when it is used, the sale of laundry detergent is a rather large business. There are many different kinds or brand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ice: Encyclopedia Ii - Ice - Human Relationship With Ice
Ice has long been valued as a means of cooling. Until recently, the Hungarian Parliament building used ice harvested in the winter from L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indium: Encyclopedia Ii - Indium - Notable Characteristics
Indium is a very soft, silvery-white true metal that has a bright luster. As a pure metal indium emits a high-pitched "cry" when it is be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indium Antimonide: Encyclopedia Ii - Indium Antimonide - Physics
It is a narrow gap semiconductor with an energy band gap equal to 0.17 eV at 300 K and 0.23 eV at 80 K. The crystal structure is cubic wi...   » Read the article