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Which is the fastest of all the trains listed in the table? Name of the train Speed The Trans-Siberian Express 5800 miles in 216 hours The French TGV 132 miles per hour The Indian Pacific 2460 miles in 72 hours => The French TGV or The Indian Pacific or The Trans-Siber..

. Hence that air was called "Dephlogisticated Air". Antonie Lavoisier, a French chemist, gave oxygen its present name. 'Oxygene' in French means "Acid producer", for, during Lavoisier's time all known acids contained oxygen. The name was modified to Oxygen in..

The discovery of the phenomenon of radioactivity was purely accidental. In 1896, Henry Becquerel, a French scientist accidentally found that in presence of salt of uranium, photographic plates got heavily fogged even though they were wrapped in opaque paper. He concluded that the ur..

In a Rectangular Cartesian System of coordinates the position of a point in a plane is determined by an ordered pair whose elements give the distances from the intersecting straight lines at right angles to each other. These lines are called the axes. The vertical line is called the Y-axis and th..

It is the name given to the theory proposed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), the French Zoologist. It is also known as the 'theory of inheritance of acquired characters'. fig. 5.3 - Jean Baptiste Lamarck Lamarck has explained his ideas on organic evolution in the book ..

Oxygen is very essential for the existence of human life on Earth. It is the most abundant element on the surface of the Earth. In a free state, it is present in the Earth's atmosphere to an extent of about 21% by volume, (23.15% by mass) In the combined form, it constitutes about 88% by mass of wa..

Hold your bag with a strap made of a thin but strong string. Now lift the same bag with another strap made of a wide cloth band. You will find that carrying a school bag with a wide cloth band is more comfortable than carrying the same with a thin strip. This is because in the second case the weigh..

Discovery of Radioactivity - The discovery of the phenomenon of radioactivity was purely accidental. In 1896, Henry Becquerel, a French scientist accidentally found that in presence of salt of uranium, photographic plates got heavily fogged even though they were wrapped in opaque paper. H..

Introduction - In the second century AD a Greek writer named Lucian wrote a story about a trip to the moon. He did not even know how far the moon was but his story revealed that the idea of space travel was certainly not new. Much later in 1865, the French novelist Jules Verne w..