CAT Questions

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Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele both independently discovered oxygen in the year 1774, but Priestly is usually given credit for the discovery.

No. Boiling water is not a chemical change. Because in this process it doesn't loss its properties. It just changes its state i.e, from liquid state to gaseous.

Hence, Boiling water is a Physiacl change and not a chemical change.

A gamma ray or gamma radiation, is a penetrating electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. It consists of the shortest wavelength electromagnetic waves and so imparts the highest photon energy.

Gamma rays are emanations that have neither mass nor charge.

The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian, with which it forms a great circle dividing the earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

It is common to both east longitude and west longitude.

It is used as the basis for the International Date Line because it mostly passes through the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. However, the meridian passes through Russia and Fiji as well as Antarctica.

The genetic information of the cell is DNA and is stored in the nucleus of the cell.

Charles Dickens pen name is Boz. Charles John Huffam Dickens was a British English writer and social critic of 19th century. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.