Pistol Star the pistol star is the most luminous star known-10 million times the power of the

sun and as big as the size of earth's entire orbit around the sun. Guest Norriedel Francisco Do you know what a BEC is? BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) is a supercooled substance that contain no individual atom.The first BEC was created at the university of Colorado in 1995 by cooling a sample of Rubidium gas atoms to about 0.00000017K through laser cooling and further cooled in "optical molasses" Guest rosalie Blue whale Didi you know that the tongue of a whale is bigger than a bus Guest Ahmed Coolest Temperature The coolest temperature that record in Antarctica is -168.2 degrees Celsius.. Guest steve ~ SEDIMENTS ~ Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particle itself. Stacey_023 Blinking Humans at least blink within 5 seconds. As because the eyelids protects the eye from dust. Guest Mica 5 phases of matter .... There are 5 phases of matter now. The first three are the solid, liquid, gas and the other are plasma and Bose Einstein condensate. Guest samantha The deepest lake lake baikal- is the deepest lake in the world as ever............. Guest jinky canitan Hotter than the sun a lightning strike is 50000 degrees celsius which is 3to 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun Guest basharrat Newts are also an amphibian newts are member of salamander family.they are found in north america, europe and also in asia Guest maki Does 7-Up contain lithium? The original formula for 7-Up contained lithium citrate, a chemical used today as a treament for bipolar disorders. The ingredient was ultimately removed by 1950. Guest Red Spot Where does cashmere wool come from? Cashmere comes from the wool of the Kashmir goat from the mountains around the Kashmir region of India. Guest Cashmere Fan How hot is a lightbulb's filament? The tungsten filament inside an incandescent lightbulb reaches a temperature of 4,664 degrees Fahrenheit when turned on. Guest Dim Bulb What makes turquoise blue? Traces of copper give turquoise its distinctive blue color. Guest Turquoise Lover No Brains Starfish (as with many radially symmetric animals) do not have brains.

gemdragon 1. What percentage of the earth is covered by water? Answer: About 71 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water. --Submitted by Robert Gagosian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2. What sorts of signals does the brain use to communicate sensations, thoughts and actions? Answer: The single cells in the brain communicate through electrical and chemical signals. --Submitted by Torsten Weisel, Rockefeller Institute, New York 3. Did dinosaurs and humans ever exist at the same time? Answer: No. Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Modern humans did not appear until around 200,000 years ago. --Submitted by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Science Reporter 4. What is Darwin's theory of the origin of species? Answer: Darwin's theory of species origination says that natural selection chooses organisms that possess variable and heritable traits and that are best suited for their environments. --Submitted by Jonathan Weiner, 1995 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author 5. Why does a year consist of 365 days and a day of 24 hours? Answer: A year, 365 days, is the time it takes for the Earth to travel around the Sun. A day, 24 hours, is the time it takes for the Earth to spin around once on its axis. --Submitted by Leslie Sage, Nature Magazine 6. Why is the sky blue? Answer: Solar radiation sunlight is scattered across the atmosphere by a process called diffused sky radiation. The sky is blue because much more short-wave radiation--blue light--is scattered across the sky than long-wave radiation--red light. --Submitted by Roy Glauber, 2005 Nobel Prize Winner; Harvard University 7. What causes a rainbow? Answer: Rainbows can be seen when there are water droplets in the air and the sun is shining. Sunlight, which contains all colors, is refracted, or bent, off the droplets at different angles, splitting into its different colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. --Submitted by Kim Kastens, Columbia University 8. What is it that makes diseases caused by viruses and bacteria hard to treat? Answer: Influenza viruses and others continually change over time, usually by mutation. This change enables the virus to evade the immune system of its host so that people are susceptible to influenza virus infection throughout their lives. Bacteria mutate in the same way and can also become resistant if overtreated with antibiotics. --Submitted by Helle Gawrylewski, Johnson & Johnson 9. How old are the oldest fossils on earth? Answer: About 3.8 billion years; they're bacteria-like organisms. --Submitted by Paul Nurse, 2001 Nobel Prize Winner; Rockefeller Institute 10. Why do we put salt on sidewalks when it snows? Answer: Adding salt to snow or ice increases the number of molecules on the ground surface and makes it harder for the water to freeze. Salt can lower freezing temperatures on sidewalks to 15 degrees from 32 degrees. --Submitted by Arthur Knudsen, Bridgeton, N.J., Schools

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Californium Astatine is the rarest element on Earth (approx 28g in the Earth's entire crust.) Guest Bryan Californium The element Californium is often called the most expensive substance in the world (as much as $68 million for one gram.) Guest Bryan Hydrofluoric acid Do you know that hydrofluoric acid is so corrosive that it will dissolve glass,although it is corrosive,hydrofluoric acid is consided to be a weak acid Praise505 Carbon Car tires are black because they are about 30% carbon black , which is added to rubber to strengthen it . The carbon black also helps it to prevent against U.V. damage Guest sakshi duklan Ionization potential cesium has lowest ionization potential. because ionization potential decreases as the size of the element increases .so cesium being smaller than francium having the lowest ionization potential in the long form of periodic table,because francium is radio active . Guest poojbaaya Name three allotropes of Carbon Question: Name three allotropes of Carbon: Answer: Diamond, Graphite, and Fullerene... Guest Duck Tungsten(W) Tungsten has highest m.p(3300centigrate).so it is used as a filament in bulb. Guest Raghvendra Pal Mnemonic for organics Most Electrons Prefer Bonding=MEPB= Methane Ethane Propane Butane Guest Ed Schramko Litmus Rub the petals of a red chinarose on a piece of white paper and let it dry for two minutes in air. Now just put a single drop of lemon sap on it, you will see a color change from blue to red. Here you have made a litmus paper- a quick and simple way to test the presence of acid and base. Guest krishnendu Atmosphere Oxygen is not the most abundant element in our atmosphere. The most abundant element is Nitrogen, 78% while Oxygen is 21% and Argon is just short of 1%. Carbon Dioxide and trace elements make up the rest. Guest Matt When the noble ones combine... Xenon hexaflouroplatinate (XePtF6) is the first compound with a noble gas in it. It was first produced by Neil Bartlett in 1962. Guest Eyenine Fastest Half-Life Berrylium-8 has the shortest half-life, 70 x 10^-18 seconds, or 0.000000000000000070 seconds. Guest Eyenine Very Cold! The lowest temperature reached in the laboratory is 7 nanokelvins, very near to absolute zero. The temperature was reached when helium was cooled to become a superfluid -- a fluid that could defy gravity. Guest Eyenine