Q U I Z No. 24
1. Graphene
pays way for better digital storage.
2. A
dozen different compounds give strawberry aroma.
3. Global
warming contributes to spread of west Nile Virus.
4. Extensive
glacial retreat in Mount Everest region.
5. Fish
oil doen’t help macular degeneration in the aged.
6. Healthy
lifestyle offsets work-related stress.
7. Human
activity7 caused extreme algal bloom.
8. Soil
in newly forested areas store more carbon.
9. Complex
m osquito gene stymies malaria control.
10. LEDs
disrupt sleep.
11. Gold
nanoparticles for drug deliver is used.
12. Earth’s
iron core is only 40% as strong as believed.
13. Air
and noise pollution increase cardiovascular risk.
14. Icebergs
float on water because they are lighter than water.
15. Water
in liquid form is 1 gm/cc whereas in
solid state it is 0.92 gms/cc.
16. George
Gamov is a greatest scientist, and Assimov is a great science writer.
17. Ladak
is the place where it never rained.
18. High
frequencies in power transmission cannot be economically transmitted to long
distances.
19. Japan's utility frequencies are 50 Hz and 60 Hz
20. DC could not be
easily changed in voltage, and was generally only produced at the required
utilization voltage.
21. Certain parts of
the digestive system are altered so that they secrete enough insulin needed to
the body.
22. The testosterone
which issecreted in female body is the cause of hair fall.
23. Tricologist is the
doctor for hair.
24. Mammoth lived 25
lakh years to 30 thousand years back having a height of 14 feet.
25. The formula
for length contraction is
where
is the
length observed by an observer in relative motion with respect to the oject,
is the relative velocity between the observer and the
moving object,
and the Lorentz
factor is defined as
.
26. disruptions
occurring from coincidental inventions, changes in regulations and society,
exploding demand for new products as well as growth in complementary
technologies created through strange connections.
27. The Nintendo Wii system is
well-matched with Gamecube games as well as the Gamecube controller even though
the two systems use very different controllers. The Wii also has the capability
to download games from the original Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo (SNES), and
the Nintendo 64.
28. A neutrino
is an electrically neutral, weakly
interacting elementary subatomic particle with half-integer spin.
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