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Ethylene is used for Artificial Ripening of Green Fruit.

• Calcium carbide is also used in some countries for artificially ripening fruit. When calcium carbide comes in contact with moisture, it produces acetylene gas, which is quite similar in its effects to the natural ripening agent, ethylene

A POST OFFICE is the word which starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters which are posted.

1. The National Green Tribunal banned the use of ‘Chinese’ kite strings, made of nylon or any synthetic material on the grounds that it poses threat to life and environment.

2. The Tribunal directed all state governments to prohibit the “manufacture, sale, storage, purchase and use” of synthetic manja or nylon threads and all other synthetic strings used for flying kites with immediate effect.

3. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar ordered the authorities to ban import of any synthetic manja.

Siphon is a tube bent to form two legs of unequal length by which a liquid can be transferred from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of it.

Siphon will fail to work if, the level of the liquid in the two vessels are at the same height.

Railway Coaches and wagons are manufactured in Perambur, Chennai.

Raipur’s Swami Vivekananda Airport was ranked first in Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) Survey among 49 airports in the country. It has achieved 4.84 score on a five point scale index. It was followed by Udaipur (2nd), Amritsar (3rd) and Dehradun (4th) airports which have scored 4.75, 4.74 and 4.73 respectively. This is third consecutive time in the past two years, Raipur airport has received this recognition.

Macronutrients are located on the Top of a Nutritional Label.

Macronutrients are essential substances that the body needs to survive and develop. There are 3 main Macronutrients:

1. Fats

2. Proteins (and)

3. Carbohydrates.

The nutritional label is an important part of any food package. Since the Macronutrients refer to a list of nutrients that we need daily in a pretty large amount are the most important nutrients to sustain our living, commonly they are written on the top of the Nutrition Labels.