Answer: Argon This question has two parts, one concerning the atmosphere on Earth and one concerning the universe as a whole. First question: What is the most abundant noble gas on Earth? The answer undoubtedly is Argon. Second Question: What is the most abundant noble gas in the universe? The answer...

Answer: Copper There are currently 86 metal are known but before 19th century only 24 had been discovered and, of these 24 metals, 12 were discovered in the 18th century. The Metals of Antiquity, were the metals upon which civilisation was based. (1) Gold (ca) 6000BC - Stone Age man learned to fashion gold...

Answer: Bromine This is an inorganic chemistry question. How do we define a metal? Many would jump to the conclusion that a metal is solid and tough, but that is not the case with mercury or gallium, respectively. I define a metal as a good conductor of heat or electricity. Non-metals are usually...

Answer: Sulphur, Carbon and Nitre People have been making gunpowder for many centuries. The basic recipe is therefore well-known and looks like this: 75% Potassium nitrate, 15% Charcoal, 10% Sulfur What you are trying to create with gunpowder is a fast-burning solid fuel. So you need a fuel, which in this case...

Answer: Sachin Tendulkar He holds the record of highest no of ODI centuries(49) and test centuries(51) making it a century of centuries :P which is the most by any batsman in international cricket.(I wonder, he might be thinking that, “I will score so many centuries that no batsman would ever break my record”…just...

Solid carbon dioxide is known as dry ice. Because it looks like ice and because when it “melts” (it actually sublimes) it goes from solid straight to gas, no liquid, hence dry ice...

Goods and Services Tax (GST) The dual system of GST includes the following : State GST or SGST - that shall be collected by State Government. Central GST or CGST - that shall be collected by Central Government. Integrated GST or IGST - that shall be collected by Central Government. GST or Goods and Services Tax...

Located between the East African coast and the Saudi Arabian peninsula, the Red Sea got its name because of a type of algae called Trichodesmium erythraeum, which is found in the sea. When these blooms of algae die off they appear to turn the blue-green color of the ocean to a reddish-brow...

But the conventional wisdom that one dog year equals seven human years is an oversimplified view of how old your dog is in human years. Although a dog's age averages out this way, there is quite a bit of variation. For example, dogs mature more quickly than children in the first couple of year...

If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less. Your mass, in grams, however would stay the same because 'grams' is a measure of the resistance of a body to being moved and has nothing to do with acceleration or gravit...