General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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A honeybee colony comprising some 25,000 individuals must collect sufficient nectar and pollen to keep its members alive and warm through the winter. An individual load is only about 40 mg, yet in ...

conveyor

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A horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machine for moving or transporting bulk materials, packages, or objects in a path predetermined by the design of the device and having points of loading ...

hudson bay

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A horseshoe-shaped bay, approximately 1050 km (650 mi) wide and 1370 km (850 mi) long, stretching from the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario in the south to the Northwest Territories. With a ...

hydrothermal vent

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A hot spring on the ocean floor, where heated fluids exit from cracks in the Earth's crust. Most hydrothermal vents occur along the central axes of mid-oceanic ridges, which are underwater mountain ...

biophysics

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A hybrid science involving the overlap of physics, chemistry, and biology. A dominant aspect of biophysics is the use of the ideas and methods of physics and chemistry to study and explain the ...

pyrophyllite

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A hydrated aluminum silicate with composition Al 2 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2 . The mineral is commonly white, grayish, greenish, or brownish, with a pearly to waxy appearance and greasy feel. It occurs as ...

kernite

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A hydrated borate mineral with chemical composition Na 2 B 4 O 6 (OH) 2 ·3H 2 O. It is monoclinic with symmetry 2/m. It occurs only very rarely in crystals but is found most commonly in coarse, ...