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Flask

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 Flask noun a container for liquids.   a narrow-necked glass container, typically conical or spherical, used in a laboratory to hold reagents or samples.   a metal container for storing a small amount of liquor, typically to be carried in one's pocket.   Flasks can be used for making solutions or for holding, containing, collecting, or sometimes volumetrically measuring chemicals, samples, solutions, etc. for chemical reactions or other processes such as mixing, heating, cooling, dissolving, precipitation, boiling (as in distillation), or analysis.

Fact

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 Fact is an occurrence in the real world. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability—that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts.   A fact is a statement that can be proven true or false. An opinion is an expression of a person's feelings that cannot be proven. Opinions can be based on facts or emotions and sometimes they are meant to deliberately mislead others.   The common usage of "something that has really occurred or is the case" dates from the middle of the sixteenth century. The term fact also indicates a matter under discussion deemed to be true or correct, such as to emphasize a point or prove a disputed issue   A fact is something that's indisputable, based on empirical research and quantifiable measures. Facts go beyond theories. They're proven through calculation and experience, or they're something that definitively occurred in the past. Truth is entirely

Experiment

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 Experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.   Three key types of experiments are controlled experiments, field experiments, and natural experiments.   Experimental research is research conducted with a scientific approach using two sets of variables. The first set acts as a constant, which you use to measure the differences of the second set. Quantitative research methods, for example, are experimental.   Obtaining good results from a DOE involves these seven steps:       Set objectives.     Select process variables.     Select an experimental design.     Execute the design.     Check that the data are consistent with the experimental assumptions.     Analyze and interpret the results.     Use/present the results (may lead to further runs or DOE's).   1 : a procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order

Evolution

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 Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.   The three main types of evolution: divergent, convergent, and parallel evolution. Theres also Introduction and Coevolution.   Punctuated equilibrium can be contrasted with evolution by phyletic gradualism, in which evolution occurs at a constant rate. Eldredge and Gould claim that this hardly ever happens and the dispute between the two theories is one of the most important in evolutionary biology.   Evolution, in this context, is both a fact and a theory. It is an incontrovertible fact that organisms have changed, or evolved, during the history of life on Earth. And biologists have identified and investigated mechanisms that can explain the major patterns of change. Evolution can't explain complex organs Organs that allow detection of light could then have b

Entomology

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 Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.   is the study of insects. More than one million different species of insect have been described to date.   Careers in Entomology       Agricultural, biological or genetic research.     Forensic entomology.     Public health.     Consulting (agricultural, environmental, public health, urban, food processing)     State and federal government agencies.     Conservation and environmental biology.     Pharmaceutical industry.     Natural resources management.   William Kirby The person that scientifically studies insects is called entomologist. William Kirby is considered as the father of entomology.   Edward Steinhaus (1914-1969) is often considered the "Father of Modern Insect Pathology". He had

Energy

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 Energy in physics, the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms. There are, moreover, heat and work—i.e., energy in the process of transfer from one body to another.   For the potential energy the formula is P.E. = mgh   The different types of energy include thermal energy, radiant energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, electrical energy, motion energy, sound energy, elastic energy and gravitational energy.   The formula that links energy and power is: Energy = Power x Time. The unit of energy is the joule, the unit of power is the watt, and the unit of time is the second.   Wasted energy is energy that is not usefully transferred or transformed. Energy cannot be made or destroyed. ... The energy that is not used in this process is wasted energy. For example lighting a light bulb uses electrical energy to make light energy which is useful.   While energy can come in many different types, there are onl

Element

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 Element In chemistry, an element is a pure substance consisting only of atoms that all have the same numbers of protons in their atomic nuclei. Unlike chemical compounds, chemical elements cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means.   Medical Definition of element. 1 : any of the four substances air, water, fire, and earth formerly believed to compose the physical universe. 2 : a constituent part: as. a : any of more than 100 fundamental substances that consist of atoms of only one kind and that singly or in combination constitute all matter.   Examples Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, gold, silver and iron are examples of elements.   Magic elements in Sci-Fiction would be something like Wind, Fire, Earth, and Water.