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High energy electrons are fired at a target. When the electrons interact with the atoms in the target two things can happen. The first process is called breaking radiation and occurs when the electron is ...

Evaporation occurs when the most energetic particles in a liquid have enough energy to overcome the attractive intermolecular bonds and leave the liquid. Because only the hughest energy particles evaporat...

human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone which is closely associated with the early stages of pregnancy. It is produced by the blastocyst once it has implanted int...

Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher noted ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man’. Similarly, every Prime Minister will transform Britain bu...

The term ‘superpower’ originated in 1943 with a series of lectures about the potential shape of a new post-war world order by Duch-American geostrategist, Nicholas Spykman. Then in 1944, William Fox...