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Chemistry: Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Dalton's Law of Partial PressuresChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined…

columnist

(Encyclopedia) columnist, the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has…

equivalent weight

(Encyclopedia) equivalent weight. The equivalent weight of an element or radical is equal to its atomic weight or formula weight divided by the valence it assumes in compounds. The unit of equivalent…

polonium

(Encyclopedia) poloniumpoloniumpəlōˈnēəm [key], radioactive chemical element; symbol Po; at. no. 84; mass no. of most stable isotope 209; m.p. 254℃; b.p. 962℃; sp. gr. about 9.4; valence +2 or +4.…

solid

(Encyclopedia) solid, one of the three commonly recognized states in which matter occurs, i.e., that state, as distinguished from liquid and gas, in which a substance has both a definite shape and a…

Conversion Calculator

LENGTH/DISTANCE common units: inches, meters, miles, and more metric units: centimeters, meters, kilometers, and…

Cook Metric!

Cook Metric!Just Say "Yum" to Metric Measures by Holly Hartman Send this Page to a Friend!Don't look now—but your kitchen is full of math. When you make a recipe, you measure the…

Animal Hall of Fame

Biggest Land mammal: African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Their trunks contain as many as 100,000 different muscles. Marine mammal: The blue…

Members of Congress: Delaware, Congress,

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Delaware Member Name Birth-Death ADAMS, Wilbur Louis 1884-1937 ALLEE, James Frank 1857-1938 ALLEN, William Franklin 1883-1946…