Questions

Lime is sometimes applied to soil in order to increase the acidity of the soil.

In the thermite process, the reducing agent is Aluminium.

The study of trees is called Dendrology.

A grouping of stars that resembles a picture i.e, forms an imaginary outline or pattern typically representing an animal, mythological person or creature, a god, or an inanimate object is called a constellation. The night sky is divided into 88 sections called constellations.

Inventors and their Inventions ::

• Sir Richard Arkwright - Father of industrial revolution.

• Michael Faraday - Discovered Benzene and invented Bunsen Burner.

• Thomas Alva Edison - Invented Phonograph and motion picture camera.

Living organisms often contain trace amounts of several elements, but the most abundant ones are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, sulphur and phosphorus.

A nanosecond (ns) is an SI unit of time equal to one thousand-millionth of a second or one billionth of a second.

• That is, 1/1,000,000,000 of a second, or 10^−9 seconds.