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Semiconductors are those materials that are neither good conductors nor the good insulators of heat and electricity. Silicon (Si), Germanium (Ge) and Cadmium Sulphide (CdS) are semiconductors which work as conductors in some special conditions only.

Nylon is made when the appropriate monomers (the chemical building blocks which make up polymers) are combined to form a long chain via a condensation polymerisation reaction. The monomers for nylon 6-6 are adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine

At first, the intensity of the pain stimuli is sent through the nerve fibres to the brain parts that are limked with the pain perception such as anterior cingulate cortex.

The three types of muscle fibers are slow oxidative (SO), fast oxidative (FO) and fast glycolytic (FG). Slow oxidative fibers use aerobic metabolism to produce low power contractions over long periods and are slow to fatigue.

World's first fully solar-powered airport is in India. The Cochin International Airport is powered by a solar plant comprised of over 46,000 solar panel units.

BharatNet is a project of national importance to establish, by 2017, a highly scalable network infrastructure accessible on a non-discriminatory basis, to provide on demand, affordable broadband connectivity of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps for all households and on demand capacity to all institutions, to realise the vision of Digital India, in partnershipwith States and the private sector. The entire project is being funded by Universal service Obligation Fund (USOF), which was set up for improving telecom services in rural and remote areas of the country. The objective is to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-banking, Internet and other services to the rural India.

In 2010, India's External Affairs Ministry had become the first ministry to have an account on twitter.

The twitter account created was @IndianDiplomacy. This was the first effort by a government ministry to harness the new age internet tools.