The question asked, how can you tell the difference between acids and bases, is written for the basic understanding of acids and bases. Describing in detail about chemical bonding, molecular structures and the forces acting upon those structures, it…
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Gold foil can be used for a lot of things, especially if you are a creative person, and I am. However, one thing I never thought about doing with gold foil was to use it to conduct a scientific experiment. Ernest Rutherford,…
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Niels Bohr’s greatest contribution to chemistry was, arguably, to be the first to develop a physics-based model of the atom. The “Bohr Model” as it came be to known, incorporated the new ideas of quantum theory, and was the first…
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From the earliest history of man, Empedocles, the Greek philosopher, was the first to theorize that everything in the cosmos consisted of four components, earth, air, fire and water. Approximately 700 years later, Aristotle espoused that there was indeed four…
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Sir Isaac Newton, could he be mistaken? For years now I have been troubled by the possibility that Isaac Newton’s Gravitation formula may be just a little bit from perfect when it gives us the Mass of objects that have…
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Quantum Physics & Black Holes To understand the dynamics of a highly concentrated anomaly of the universe, as such a Black hole, one must realize the mechanism of the process of the development in the cycles of the structures that…
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The electron carries a negative elementary or unit charge while the proton carries a positive charge in an atoms, the basic unit of matter. The two types of charge are equal and opposite. The unit of electrical charge in the…
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May 4, 2015 Physical Science, Social Science
Isotope analysis is a very active area of archaeological research, which can give insight into the geographic origin of artifacts and human remains, support studies into human diet and determine the age of sites. The technique provides a unique fingerprint…
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Twinkling stars may look like diamonds in the sky, but iron meteorites seeded the world with gold. That’s the fascinating conclusion that a new study, “The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment,” published in the…
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For months speculation has mounted over the gigantic strides forward CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland might make. Breakthroughs in particle physics have been anticipated by the world’s physicists like the eagerness exhibited by small children during the approaching…
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