Your favourite word!

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Well than where is the word? You can give us a plane related word :smiley:

Nomi, pehlay kabhi yai word suna hai ya awein hi google ker liye?

I really like the word golgi as well!

Phew, thanks for explaining again. It went over my head too the first time around

Can also give us the definition for those who don’t know the word. Thanks

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you are welcome ji.

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i absolutely LOVE this word…EUSTACHIAN TUBE is a tube that links the pharynx to the middle ear**. It is a part of the middle ear. In adult humans, the Eustachian tube is approximately 35 mm long. It is named after the sixteenth-century anatomist, Eustachius.****

this reminds me of some remote place like**** Aleutian**** Mountains…hehe! :smiley: **

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Diffusion = the spread of particles from high concentrated regions to low concentrated regions.

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I would have thought this was pronounced ** sai ze jee**

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My word is flocculation

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^so really there isn’t a reaction because the clarifying agent just makes the floc visible but there were always present right?

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^ yes. Particles were always there. Clarifying agent causes certain particles or colloids to clump together which is called a floc. The floc can then be filtered out.

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I like the way this word is pronounced: Peristalsis - definition

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Come on everyone, post some interesting words for us all to learn.

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XYLEM [zailum]

Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants](Vascular plant - Wikipedia). (Phloem is the other). Its basic function is to transport water, but it also transports some nutrients through the plant.

this word always reminded me of the Urdu word “zaalim”…hehe

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Constellation

everyone knows what it means :snooty:

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^

I don’t :hinna:

Okay no I do. But still spill!!

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i also like Galaxy…reminds me of the chocolate :hehe:

Galaxy- A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational forces

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Safari

learnt the hard way it is a web browser developed by Apple

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Double layer capacitor - an electrochemical capacitor with charge stored at surface of carbon electrodes - can be charged and discharge at very high rates

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gravity - as our cience teacher explained it - when stone throws in air, it falls down

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Equivalent tems

Electricity Fluid flow
Potetial difference -------> pressure difference
Current ---------------> flow rate
Resistance --------------> Resistance to flow (prop to length, inversely prop to area, prop to viscosity)

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LOL you looked it up :cb: i liked ibrowser :k:

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No - I still have not violated the rules :slight_smile:

I told my wife abt this question - and she said when she went to India, she learnt abt this Apple browser.