General
This physical phenomenon allows liquids to flow into narrow spaces without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, external forces like gravity.
What is Capillary Action?
The world's largest island. Despite its name 80% of its territory is covered by Ice.
What is Greenland?
While the Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine are awarded in Stockholm, this capital city is the exclusive home of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
What is Oslo?
The closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
Defined as a fluid's internal resistance to flow, this property is the reason honey pours slower than water.
What is viscosity?
This American corporation became so dominant in the 20th century that its name became a common verb used synonymously with "photocopying."
What is Xerox?
This European nation is world-famous for its hydraulic engineering, having used a system of dikes and pumps to reclaim roughly 17% of its land from the sea.
What are the Netherlands?
Located at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon, this "Paris of the Tropics" is the largest city in the world not reachable by a major paved road.
What is Manaus?
Because it rotates so slowly on its axis, a single day on this planet lasts longer than its trip around the Sun.
What is Venus?
This phenomenon occurs when the local pressure in a liquid drops below its vapor pressure, causing vapor bubbles to form and then violently implode.
What is cavitation?
So much water is discharged from this river that it creates a massive "plume" of freshwater in the Atlantic Ocean, lowering the salinity for hundreds of miles.
What is the Amazon River?
This body of water between South America’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands is considered one of the most treacherous voyages for ships due to its converge of three oceans.
What is the Drake Passage?
This territory is located on a narrow peninsula at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, guarding the only natural entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Gibraltar?
Named after the twin sister of Apollo, this is the current NASA-led program aiming to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon.
What is Artemis?
Usually denoted by Ea, this is the minimum amount of energy that must be provided to compounds to result in a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
Consisting of over 17,000 islands, this Southeast Asian nation holds the title of the world's largest archipelago country.
What is Indonesia?
his narrow stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra is the primary shipping channel between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
A major city of the Indus Valley Civilization, it is home to the world’s earliest known dock, demonstrating advanced knowledge of tides and hydrodynamics nearly 4,000 years ago.
What is Lothal?
Often nicknamed the "Eye of God," this planetary nebula appears in the main cover of the COSMOS series by Neil deGrasse Tyson
What is the Helix Nebula?
This type of phase change occurs on non-wetting surfaces and offers significantly higher heat transfer coefficients than film-wise condensation.
What is dropwise condensation?
Separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait, this Australian Island is home to a famous "devilish" marsupial.
What is Tasmania?
The "Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility." It's the place in the ocean furthest from any land. It's so isolated that the closest humans to it are often astronauts in the ISS passing overhead.
What is Point Nemo?
Founded by its namesake Tsar in 1703, this "Venice of the North" was built on marshland and served as the imperial capital of Russia for over two centuries.
What is St. Petersburg?
While the James Webb Telescope recently captured a new infrared version, the original 1995 iconic "Pillars of Creation" image was taken by this legendary observatory.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This "effective pressure" is used in thermodynamics to represent the chemical potential of a real gas.
What is Fugacity?